CV

Education

• B.Tech in Computer Science & Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Goa, 2020
  • GPA: 8.03/10.00
• M.S. in Computer Science, University of California Santa Barbara, 2022 (expected)
  • GPA: 3.94/4.00

Work experience

• Graduate Student Researcher: Bionic Vision Lab
  • Fall 2021 - present: Developing AR/VR systems to simulate prosthetic vision to help solve blindness and low vision.
  • Developing High Stress VR Environments to study strategy shift performance
• Teaching Assistant
  • Fall 2021, Winter 2021, Winter 2022: CS 64 (Computer Organization and Digital Logic Design)
  • Spring 2021: CS 160 (Translation of Programming Languages)
  • Summer 2021: CS 16 (Problem Solving with Computers)
  • Spring 2022, Summer 2022: CS 8 (Introduction to Computer Science)
• Summer 2019: eClerx Services
  • Data Science Intern in the Research Department
  • Built a model to extract Trending Financial News from data collected by scraping news websites using Natural Language Processing & Topic Modelling techniques from spaCy.
  • Developed a model for Object Character Recognition in Passports Using TensorFlow to help the HR department get rid of doing manual entries.
  • Learnt using SAS Enterprise Miner for Data Analysis.
  • Automated Dummy Test Data Generation for financial data of banks (generally private).
• Summer 2018: IIT Goa
  • Blockchain and Cryptography Research Intern under Dr. Sreejith A. V.
  • Developed basic dApps (Decentralised Apps) using Solidity and EVM (Ethereum Virtual Machine) which can run on a local Blockchain.

Publications

Flick Gesture Interaction in Augmented Reality: AR Carrom

Apurv Varshney, Justin Nilsen, Richa Wadaskar, and Misha Sra. 2021. Flick Gesture Interaction in Augmented Reality: AR Carrom. The Adjunct Publication of the 34th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 60–62.

Visual Navigation under High-Stress Conditions

Skills

• Python
• C++
• Machine Learning
  • TensorFlow
  • Keras
• Unity
• Latex

Position of Responsibilities

• Co-Founder: Mentoring Unity for Virtual Reality Research
• Design Head: IIT Goa ACM Studen Chapter 2018
• Co-founder: IIT Goa Photography Club Originals IIT Goa
• Hostel Wing Representative: IIT Goa UG Hostel Council 2017