About

I am pursuing my PhD in Computer Science at University of Central Florida. I am being advised by Dr. Yogesh Rawat and Dr. Mubarak Shah. Previously I worked at Samsung Research under Dr. Manish Sharma. In my earlier days, I have spent time at IIT Roorkee, Parimal Lab, under Dr. Partha Pratim Roy. During my undergrad, I was fortunate enough to have worked and learnt from Dr. Harish Parthasarathy..

My focus is on action recognition. Specifically, how can a machine learn to distinguish between an actor, object of action and actions being performed. Another direction i am interested in is understanding the ‘supporting actors’ in videos which can inform inference of an action.

The purpose of this blog is for me to ‘think’ about analogies from a brain point of view and use those notions towards developing an intelligent machine.