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कर्मण्येवाधिकारस्ते मा फलेषु कदाचन - Perform your duty but do not have any expectation of the results


Hi, I am Shashank, a Ph.D. student from Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Southern California. My research advisor is Prof. Antonio Ortega.

My research interest lies at the intersection of graph signal processing, multimedia data compression and differential geometry. I am particularly interested in developing scalable algorithms for 3D point cloud processing such as compression, graph construction, sampling and reconstruction.

News

[Sept 2024] Our recent paper on graph-based scalable sampling of 3D point cloud attributes is available on arXiv. Here is the paper

[May 2024] I will intern with the next-generation codec (NGC) group at Sony during the summer. I will be investigating the compression of 3D-Gaussian splats (3DGS).

[Oct 2023] My First US Patent was filed in collaboration with KDDI! Here is the provisional patent publication

[Apr 2023] Our work in collaboration with KDDI won first place in ICIP-2023 point cloud quality assessment grand challenge.

[May 2022] Our work on point cloud attirbute compression is presented at ICASSP 2022, here is the paper and video presentation.

[Oct 2021] Our work on LiDAR point cloud compression is presented at ICIP-2021, here is the paper and video presentation.

[May 2021] I graduated with master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from USC with Honors.

[April 2021] I recieved USC ECE MS Honors award for excellent academic performance.

[Feb 2021] Our work on Bias field correction of 3D MRI images using convolutional autoencoders is presented at SPIE-2021, here is the paper

[Jan 2021] I will be starting my Ph.D. program in Electrical Engineering at USC.

[Aug 2019] I will be starting my master’s degree in Electrical Engineering at USC.

Background

Prior to joining USC for my PhD, I obtained my Masters degree in Electrical Engineering at USC. Prior to that, I worked as a software engineer for 2 years at Allstate India.

I completed my Bachelors degree in Electronics and Communication from Sri Jayachamarajendra college of Engineering (currently JSS Science and Technology University), where I worked with Prof. C S Yogananda and Prof. Shreekanth T.