Hello World!
I’m Srikar, a first year CS PhD student at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville focusing on dynamic networks and epidemics.
Here’s my full CV, and an expanded list of interests.
News
- Aug 2024: Started as a CS PhD @ UVA!
- Jan 2024:
- A pre-print of my work on dynamics-informed GNNs is now on arXiv [2401.03390]
- Oct 2023:
- Attended my first UIST in San Francisco as a student volunteer between 29 Oct - 1 Nov, 2023.
- My directed research work with Prof. Beerel was presented as a poster at the HADR workshop at ICCV’23 in Paris. This post covers it in a bit more detail.
- Got featured on the SIGGRAPH member profile pages!
- Aug 2023:
- Started working as a Research Associate with the Srivastava Group, focusing on graph ML for epidemiology.
- Attended my first SIGGRAPH (and their 50th) in Los Angeles between 6 - 10 Aug 2023. Surreal.
- May 2023: Graduated with a Masters in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California!
@USC
- Spring 2023:
- Worked on agent based models for epidemiology under Prof. Srivastava
- Continued work at the E2S2C group and the HaRVI lab
- Worked as a course producer for the CS526 Mobile Games course with Prof. Easley
- Fall 2022:
- Joined the E2S2C group, focusing on synthetic data generation using Unreal Engine under Prof. Peter Beerel.
- Worked on causal inference using graph spectra under Prof. Mitra
- Worked as the course producer for the CS526 Mobile Games (Prof. Easley) and the CS420 Computer Graphics (Prof. Nealen) courses.
- Summer 2022:
- Joined the HaRVI Lab, focusing on haptic wearables for VR under Prof. Heather Culbertson.
- Worked with the USC Credit Union with the Digital Experience team, auditing new membership accounts.
- March 2022:
- My tech-edited book, Unity Apprentice, got published!
- Spring 2022:
- Worked on point cloud denoising with graph signal processing under Prof. Ortega.
- Worked on offline inference for ASL on video streams under Prof. Franzke.
- January 2022:
- Moved to Los Angeles, US to attend in-person at USC!
- August 2021:
- Started grad school (remotely) at the University of Southern California!
@TCS
Work generally under NDA, but sharing a few highlights here:- Aug 2021: Leaving TCS after five wonderful years to pursue grad studies. Been quite a memorable period!
- 2019: Won the Most Innovative Usecase Award from Adobe India at their Hackathon!
- 2018: Published an article on Classical music in TCS' internal magazine (link).
- 2017: Moved to the Immersive Technologies team, started work on AR/VR and games.
- 2016:
- November: Moved to Chennai and joined TCS offices there! Started work with the Big Data team.
- August: Joined Tata Consultancy Services, started training at Trivandrum, Kerala.