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General Information

Full Name Deepak Sridhar
Languages English, Tamil, Hindi

Education

  • 2022-now
    PhD
    University of California, San Diego, US
    • Multimodal Generative Modeling
      • Diffusion Models
      • Inversion
      • Editing
    • Multimodal sensing and learning for 3D handpose estimation
      • 3D handpose under occlusion with multimodal data using ultrasound sensor and RGB image
      • Hand holding objects
  • 2016-2018
    M. Eng
    McGill University, Montreal, Canada
    • Thesis
      • Non-linear State and Parameter Estimation for Linear Time Varying Systems
  • 2012-2016
    B.Tech
    NITT, Trichy, India
    • Thesis
      • Remote Gesture Controlled Robotic Arm

Experience

  • 2018 - 2022
    Computer Vision Researcher
    Huawei Technologies Canada Co. Ltd.
    • Research in Video Understanding, Hand Detection,Classification, 2D/3D Pose Estimation and other Computer Vision problems. Model Compression and shipping ML/DL models to production with better speed-accuracy trade-off.
    • Products built
      • Spotlight Reel
      • Smart Gestures for TV
      • Smart Lamp
    • Action Recognition and Localization
      • Advance SOTA for action localization in videos
      • Improve Action recognition with novel discriminative losses

Honors and Awards

  • 2024
    • Outstanding Reviewer Award at ECCV 2024
  • 2023
    • Graduate Student Service Award by ECE department at UCSD
  • 2022
    • Jacobs Fellow (Highest Recognition in ECE department at UCSD)
  • 2022
    • Rising Star Award at Huawei Canada
  • 2021
    • Outstanding Employee of the Year Award at Huawei Canada
  • 2016
    • Mitacs Globalink Graduate Fellowship
    • Graduate Excellence Fellowship

Academic Interests

  • Generative Modeling.
    • Diffusion Models (Foundation Models)
    • Inversion
  • Efficient Machine Learning.
    • Classification
    • Detection

Other Interests

  • Hobbies: Hiking, Exploring scenic landscapes, etc.