I would say I've been lucky to have had the opportunity to work in 2 wonderful areas, and have the guidance of 2 amazing professors.

I started off in the area of Computer Vision as a Research Assistant under Professor Larry Davis. During that 1 year, I explored ideas mainly in human recognition and action recognition. I also interacted with students who are working on background subtraction to get an insight of what goes on there. Later, I went on to do a summer internship at the University of California, Berkeley with Professor Jitendra Malik. I worked with a group of people on action recognition. Towards the end of my internship, I even tried my hand at human tracking in crowded scenes!

I hope to have a link to some of my work in Vision shortly.

Please follow this link to know more about a very special friend I made while interning at Berkeley. Alyosha loves Indian food, especially the "masala dosa". I call him whenever I yearn to hear the "Appu accent" :)

In my second year at Maryland, I was the Teaching Assistant for the course Design and Analysis of Algorithms with Professor David Mount. In an earlier semester, I had taken a Computational Geometry course with Professor Mount, where I had done pretty well. But it was actually when I began working with him in this Algorithms course, did it dawn on me that God has gifted me with brains for solving problems, and coming up with neat algorithms. This semester, I am the Teaching Assistant for his course, Computer Graphics. It's been one of the best areas I've worked in. I feel it's a perfect combination of coming up with tough problems, going on to solve them (with a lot of computational geometry involved!), and finally coding everything up (and as anyone can guess - graphics applications is always fun to code :-) ). Our latest project is on 3D Boids. We wish to simulate a flock of boids (bird-oids?) which realistically resemble birds, when it comes to staying together in a flock, banking during flight, avoiding obstacles, and so on and so forth.

Please follow this link for some nice problems, if you're interested in Computational Geometry.

Please follow this link to see more on boids.