Resume
Academic Achievements
- Distinguished Dissertation Award from Seoul National University for Ph.D. thesis titled 'Constrained Optimization for Translucent Hindrance Removal from a Single Image'
- IEI Young Engineers Award 2023 (awarded by ISRO Chairman Dr. S. Somnath)
- INAE Young Associate 2024
- Outstanding Young Researcher Award, Venus International Foundation (May 2023)
- Best Paper Award, IEEE 8th International Conference on CVIP (July 2023)
- Inventor of over 60 patents
- Top publications in CVPR 2020, CVPR 2017, ICCV 2017
Research Experience
- Advanced Research Lab and Multimedia R&D Group, Samsung Electronics HQ, South Korea (2014–2021)
- Developed 'Intelligent Scan': a deep learning-based biometric authentication system combining iris and face recognition
- Designed anti-spoofing CNN models for face and fingerprint biometric security
- Worked on activity detection from mobile video, stable GIF creation, image auto-categorization, and auto-enhancement
- Research internship at the University of Alberta, Canada, via Mitacs Globalink