Brief Bio	I completed my PhD in May 2008 under the supervision of Professor Shankar Sastry, and joined HHMI. Prior to that, I received a Masters in Computer Science from UC-Berkeley and a Masters in Electrical Engineering from University of Central Florida. I received my Bachelors in Engineering (Electronics and Communication) with distinction from Osmania University, India. My research interests are in Computer Vision and Signal Processing, particularly at the intersection of these two. I am interested applications related to biological problems (high-throughput imaging and analysis), and camera networks (video understanding). I grew up in West Godavari district in Andhra Pradesh, India and most of my youth was spent moving from one place to another constantly.
Teaching and Mentorship	GSI / TA: - Spring 2008 :: UC-Berkeley :: Introduction to Microelectronic Circuits (EE 40) - Spring 2005 :: UC-Berkeley :: Image Processing and Reconstruction Tomography (EECS C145B/ BioE C165) - August 1999 - May 2001 :: UCF :: Introduction to Digital Signal Processing, Advanced Topics in Digital Signal Processing, Electrical Networks lab, Senior Design Lab, Introduction to Computer Science, Electronics - II, Electrical Networks. Guest Lectures: - CS-294-1: Medical Image Processing (UC-Berkeley : Spring 2006) - EECS C145B: Image Processing and Reconstruction Tomography (UC-Berkeley : Spring 2005) - EE 221A: Linear Systems Theory (UC-Berkeley : Fall 2003) Mentorship: - Summer 2005 :: SUPERB program for Undergraduate Research.
Activities	- Reviewed articles for ECCV, CVPR, ICCV and IEEE Communications magazine. - Student Member of IEEE, IEEE Signal Processing Society, ACM, IEEE Computer Society and SPIE (Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers). - Officer for: EEGSA (2002- 2006) [organizer for the EE faculty candidate interviews with the panel of student representatives and webmaster], VERTEX (2002-2005) [webmaster and fundraising for Innovator's Challenge].
Last update: 14th May 2008.