I grew up in Kolkata, India and much of my academic inclinations have its roots in the athenaeum of South Point High School. My love for computer science came from a natural penchant towards mathematics and algorithms. After completing my school leaving exams with merit from a science
background, I enrolled in the Electronics Engineering Department of Jadavpur University as an undergrad. Following this, I joined the Media and Sound Engineering Department in the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur where I got interested in image and video compression algorithims. I designed new, more efficient algorithms for the same along the lines of conventional ones.
While working with images I got interested in computer vision and graphics, which finally took my trajectory to the Graphics and Visualisation Group of the Computer Science Department at UCI. My research interests focus mainly on Computational Geomentry and Graphics. Presently, I am working on two projects:
1. Analysis of a special class of curves called self-overlapping curves which are obtained by stretching a topological disk with applications to shape morphing.
2. Interactive rendering of huge volume data/polygonal models leveraging modern GPU capabilities.