About Me

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I am a PhD student at the University of Texas at Austin, in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. I work at the Laboratory for Image and Video Engineering (LIVE) with Prof. Alan Bovik as a Graduate Research Assistant. We use statistical, signal processing and machine learning methods to evaluate and optimize the subjective quality of images and videos. This is especially relevant in the context of the online video explosion in recent years. Because of my researcrh in the area, I have had the pleasure of working with leading companies like Meta Platforms and Apple. I have also worked as a research intern at Carnegie Mellon University, in 2018.

I graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad in India with a Bachelors in Electrical Engineering, where I was awarded an Institute Silver Medal for having the highest score in my department. While at IIT Hyderabad, I was involved in several clubs. During my sophomore year, I was selected as a student mentor at Sunshine, the Counseling Cell of IIT Hyderabad, which I became the student head of the next year. I was also heavily involved with the Literary Society, writing for Lexicon, the magazine of the Literary Society and serving as its editor during my junior year. That same year, I was also the Literary Events coordinator at Elan, the cultural fest of IIT Hyderabad and a coordinator of the Quiz Club.

When I am not trying to figure out why you didn’t like that one cat video as much as the others, I play badminton, counter strike, and chess.