About Me
Hi, welcome to my webpage!
I am from India where I received my Bachelor’s and Master’s in Information Technology from International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore in 2017. During my Master’s, I worked on tensor-based analysis of LiDAR point clouds to improve their structural classification, developed new techniques for 3D reconstruction using user-guided methods and built tools for Visual Analytics involving point/glyph rendering for large-scale data.
After graduation, I joined the Research and Innovation Team at WalmartLabs, Bangalore (India) as a Software Engineer. My work there was primarily focused on the development of real-time graphics, particularly, Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR). Working there, I gained experience in building large-scale procedural virtual worlds, performance optimizations for VR and programming with low-level graphics APIs to build AR experiences on native mobile applications.
In January 2019, I joined the Graphics and Interaction (Rainbow) Group at the University of Cambridge as a PhD student under the supervision of Dr Rafał Mantiuk. As a Marie-Curie Early Stage Researcher in the European ITN RealVision Project, my work involves research into the real-time rendering techniques for realistic reproduction of images and videos on future displays. I am also investigating efficient data representation of content intended for future display technologies.
My Research Interests
Rendering; Visual Perception; Display Algorithms;
Deep Learning; Adverserial training; Multi-agent systems
Image-based rendering; in-painting; Light fields
Virtual reality; Augmented Reality; Visual analytics
Resume
Working History
Early Stage Researcher — University of Cambridge, UK
Jan 2019 - PresentInvestigating ways to perceptually accelerate various rendering techniques.
Also, helped with teaching various computer graphics related courses.
Software Engineer II — @WalmartLabs, IN
Aug 2017 - Dec 2018Developed and integrated an Augmented Reality product visualization feature with the existing Sam’s club iOS App, and a backend capable of serving millions of 3D models.
Presently working on a Diminished Reality solution.
Engineering Intern — @WalmartLabs, IN
Jan 2017 - Aug 2017Developed a help center web application for Sam’s Club using AngularJS as frontend and Java Spring/Cassandra as backend.
Developed a VR shopping experience deployable on all major VR headsets and travelled to USA to showcase it to Walmart’s senior leadership.
Intern (Mobile Apps) - Hilti, Malaysia
May 2016 - July 2016Developed an intelligent chatbot for handling all company’s products and services related queries with support for computer vision. Responsibilities included Facebook and Google APIs integration, build system management and cloud deployment.
Intern (Parallel Systems) - Siemens Tech. IN
May 2015 - July 2015Worked on the scalability of one of their binary instrumentation tool. Responsibilities included performance evaluation, bottlenecks identification and program optimisation.
Education History
University of Cambridge, Cambridge
Jan 2019 - PresentDoctor of Philosophy, Computer Science
International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore
July 2012 - July 2017Integrated Masters of Technology
CGPA: 3.5/4
Aklank Public School, Kota
July 2010 - July 2012Senior Secondary
Board: Central Board of Secondary Education, New Delhi
Percentage: 87%
St. Paul’s Sr. Sec. School, Udaipur
July 1998 - July 2010Secondary
Board: Central Board of Secondary Education, New Delhi
CGPA: 9.4/10
Certifications
Tools Skills
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Unity 3D
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OpenGL
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Tensorflow
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Qt
Code Skills
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Java
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Python
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C#
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C++
Language Skills
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English
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Hindi
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German
Portfolio
An augmented reality native iOS app to visualize furniture in your space with features including variable lighting, progressive textures and baked shadows. [Demo on request]
A virtual Walmart shopping experience. [Demo on request]
Realistically deleting objects from images
A tool built on GAMA platform to create a data driven simulation of an epidemic.
Publications
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Contour Extraction in Buildings in Airborne LiDAR Point Clouds Using Multi-scale Local Geometric Descriptors and Visual Analytics
J. Sreevalsan-Nair, A. Jindal, and B. Kumari. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (2018). (www)
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Using Gradients and Tensor Voting in 3D Local Geometric Descriptors for Feature Detection in Airborne LiDAR Point Clouds in Urban Regions
J.Sreevalsan-Nair, and A. Jindal. in the Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, July 2017. (www)
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Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation of Mosquito-Borne Disease Transmissions
Akshay Jindal and Shrisha Rao. In Proceedings of the 16th Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS '17). (www)
Invited Talks
March 6, 2018
National Institute of Design, Bangalore
Covered the basic concepts of AR and VR and gave a tutorial on how to develop such apps using Unity 3D
April 11, 2017
Fields of View, Bangalore
Talked about how Agent-based Modeling can be used to overcome the limitations of prior mathematical models for epidemiology
Awards & Honors
Competitions
Best Pitch Award
July 2019Entrepreneurship in Technical Science Summer School, Denmark
Runner-up of Walmart Hackday
Feb 2018Runner-up of MakeMyTrip Hackathon
Dec 2016Winner of DigitalOcean Cloud Hack
Oct 2016Finalist, DreamWorks Animation Challenge
Sep 2016Second Runner-up of HackforIndia: The Appfest 2016
May 2016A 12 City Wide Hackathon across India.
Runner-up of Steer Quest
Apr 2016Animation/ VFX/ Gaming Hackathon.
Finalist in IndiaHacks Travel and Transport
Mar 2016India’s largest Hackathon.
Winner of The 2016 Hilti Mobile App Competition
Feb 2016An International Hackathon by Hilti Asia IT Services.
Second Runner-up of Applift Datathon
July 2015A data analytics hackathon by Applift India.
Winner of HackIndia (Bluemix category)
July 2015Winner of Hackathon - Code the future
July 2015National Hackathon by AceHacker and Wipro Digital.
Winner of Informatica Codathon
July 2014A national coding competition organised by Informatica.
Scholarships
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, Research Fellowship.
Jan 2019Travel grant from Google India, 2017.
March 2017ACM-India/IARCS Travel Grant
March 2017Google-TATA-Udacity Android Nanodegree Scholarship
Jan 2016
April 19, 2018
International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore
Talked about state-of-the-art algorithms and the top unsolved problems in computer graphics.