University of Southern California
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Electrical Engineering
Aug. 2020 – May 2023
- Minor: Computer Science
- Dissertation: Unsupervised Green Learning for 3D Point Cloud Data Processing
- Advisor: C.-C. Jay Kuo
About
Currently, I am a Senior Research Engineer at Tencent working with the Media Lab led by Shan Liu. My role involves research and development of 3D Geometry coding technologies for meshes and point clouds. I am also actively involved in standardization activities for 3D data. I earned my Ph.D. from University of Southern California (USC) where I was advised by C.-C. Jay Kuo. My dissertation was related to 3D perception from point cloud data using unsupervised machine learning techniques. Previously, I interned at Sony R&D Center USA and InterDigital Video Lab where I contributed to AI-based 3D point cloud compression exploration activities in MPEG. I also keep an interest in Computer Vision, Machine Learning and exploring emerging technologies in general.
Education
University of Southern California
Master of Science (Honors), Electrical Engineering
Aug. 2018 – May 2020
Savitribai Phule Pune University
Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunication
Aug. 2014 – May 2018
Experience
Tencent
Senior Researcher
May 2023 – Present
- Development of AOMedia Polygonal Mesh Coding Standard
- UV-preserved decimation for PMC and V-DMC encoders
- Rate distortion optimization framework for PMC encoder
- Mesh fragment assembly using machine learning
Tencent
Research Intern
Feb. 2023 – May 2023
- Research and development of methods for symmetric mesh coding and mesh registration
Sony
Applied Research Intern
Aug. 2022 – Dec 2022
- Research and development of AI-based dynamic point cloud compression method and rate control techniques
InterDigital
Research Intern
May 2022 – Aug. 2022
- Research and development of AI-based method for motion estimation and intra-/inter-mode decision in dynamic point cloud compression
Publications
See all →Selected highlights below. Each publication has its own page with abstract, figures, and links.