Engineer/Scientist
Sony Stuttgart Technology Center

	Stuttgart Germany
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	narprasan@gmail.com

I am currently an engineer at Sony Semiconductor Solutions Europe. I am part of Computational Sensing Group at Sony Stuttgart Technology Center in Germany. My goal is to develop applications for novel imaging sensors designed at Sony.

Before joining Sony, I was a research associate at University of Bonn, Germany. I worked with Prof. Matthias Hullin at Computational Light Transport lab. I developed system and algorithm for 3D reconstruction of transparent objects using inverse rendering.

Previously, I was a PhD student in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India. I worked under the guidance of Dr. Kaushik Mitra in the Computational Imaging lab. My research interests broadly lie in low-level computer vision, computational photography and signal processing. Specifically, I have worked on topics ranging from coded-aperture photography, event-sensors for high speed imaging and video compressive sensing. Currently, my PhD thesis is under review and I expect to receive my doctoral degree very soon.

I received my bachelors in engineering from Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India, where Mr. Shreedarshan K. supervised my bachelor's thesis. I interned at Samsung Research Institute Bangalore during the summer of 2018 where I was mentored by Dr. Rituparna Sarkar. During Summer/Fall 2019 and Spring/Summer 2020, I was a visiting pre-doctoral fellow at Northwestern University, IL, USA where I worked with Dr. Oliver Cossairt at the Computational Photography lab. I also collaborated with Prof. Aggelos Katsaggelos during the visit to Northwestern University.

My PhD thesis can be downloaded from here

Education

• Joint MS+Ph.D. in Signal Processing
  Department of Electrical Engineering
  Indian Institute of Technology Madras
• B.E. in Electronics, 2015
  Ramaiah Insitute of Technology, Bangalore, India

Scholastic Achievements

1. Winner of the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship India 2021. Competing against 95 teams from several premier Indian universities.
2. Selected for Doctoral Consortium at the IEEE WACV 2021 where I was mentored by Dr. Amanda Fernandez, an assistant professor at UTSA.
3. Secured a Research Travel Scholarship of USD 5000 from RBC-DSAI, IIT Madras to visit Dr. Oliver Cossairt at Northwestern University as a short-term visiting scholar.
4. Secured internship at Samsung Research Institute, Bengaluru during the summer of 2018.
5. One of the 20 finalists out of 95 competing teams across 7 premier Indian institutes in Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship India 2018. The 95 competing teams were from 7 different premier Indian institutes.
6. Awarded travel grant of 1000 USD to attend IEEE International Conference on Image Processing 2017 by IEEE Signal Processing Society.
7. Ranked 704 in the country in GATE 2016, attempted by over 150,000 students.

Talks and Miscellaneous

1. Invited talk at SLIM group at Michigan State University and Computer Graphics lab at University of Bonn, on light-field video reconstruction
2. Presented a online guest lecture for the students of Computer Graphics course (NUCS396) at the CS department of Northwestern University
3. Reviewer for WACV (2021,2022); ICIP (2022); Siggraph Asia (2022)
4. Presenting our light-field imaging for smartphones proposal to Principal Scientific Advisor, Govt. of India and Secretary for Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Govt. of India.

In the media

1. Our work on light-field video reconstruction, SeLFVi, was recently featured in AlJazeera.in, ThePrint.in, TheFanPost.com, TechCircle.in, Dhinasari.com, and EduVoice.in.