Publications

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	Bernhard Jenny, Daniel M. Stephen, Ian Muehlenhaus, Brooke E. Marston, Ritesh Sharma, Eugene Zhang, Helen Jenny, Force-directed layout of origin-destination flow maps, Internaional Journal of Geographical Information Science (IJGIS), 2017. [Link]
	Bernhard Jenny, Daniel M. Stephen, Ian Muehlenhaus, Brooke E. Marston, Ritesh Sharma, Eugene Zhang, Helen Jenny, Design Principles for Origin-destination Flow Maps, Cartography and Geographic Information Science (CaGIS), 2016. [Link]
	Jonathan Palacios, Harry Yeh, Wenping Wang, Yue Zhang, Robert S. Laramee, Ritesh Sharma, Thomas Schultz, and Eugene Zhang, Feature Surfaces in Symmetric Tensor Fields Based on Eigenvalue Manifold, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol 22(3), 2016, pp. 1248-1260. Also appeared in SIGGRAPH ASIA 2016 and IEEEVIS 2016. [Link][Video]
	Ritesh Sharma, Shital S. Jadhav, Debabrata Tripathy, Harshala V. Sardar, and Gopal R. Patil, Virtual Laboratory: An alternative approach to Urban Transportation Systems Planning Lab, Transportation Research Board, 93rd Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C, USA, January 12-16. 2014. [Link]

Conference Proceedings

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	Yue Zhang, Ritesh Sharma, Eugene Zhang, Maximum Number of transition points in a 3D Linear Symmetric Tensor Fields, Topology Based Methods in Visualization 2017 (TopoInVis 2017), Tokyo, Japan, Feb 27th-28th, 2017
	Victoria Nelson, Ritesh Sharma, Eugene Zhang, Andreas Schmittner, Bernhard Jenny, 3D visualization of global ocean circulation,AGU Fall Meeting, San Fransisco, CA, Dec 18, 2015.
	Daniel Stephen, Bernhard Jenny, Ritesh Sharma, Eugene Zhang, Ian Muehlenhaus, (2015). Automatic Flow map creation using a force-directed layout. North American Cartographic Information Society Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, Oct. 15, 2015

Under Review

• Yue Zhang, Lawrence Roy Ritesh Sharma, Eugene Zhang, Maximum Number of transition points in a 3D Linear Symmetric Tensor Fields, Topological Methods in Data Analysis and Visualization(Published by Springer), 2017 (minor revision).

Interactive Design and Transition Point Analysis of 3D Linear Symmetric Tensor Fields

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3D symmetric tensor fields have a wide range of applications, such as in solid and fluid mechanics, medical imaging, meteorology, molecular dynamics, geophysics and computer graphics. There has been much research carried out in this field, yet our knowledge of the tensor field is still at its initial stage to completely understand the behavior of 3D linear tensor fields. To understand the behavior and to design such applications, topology plays an important role. The degenerate points are the most studied topological feature of symmetric tensor fields. Though several attempts have been made to understand such features, still none of them seems to be complete. In this work, we provide an interactive interface to study such features. We also study the maximum number of transition points in a linear tensor field and classification of wedge and trisector along the degenerate curves. Finally, we provide an insight over the upper and lower bound on the number of transition points in a linear tensor field. This work is also a part of my MS thesis.

Degenerate patterns

Interactive User Interface

RendermanLink: Interface between Wolfram's Mathematica and Pixar's Renderman

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In this project, I built a software package in C to connect Wolfram's Mathematica with Pixar's Renderman.The main aim of this project is to utilize the rendering power of Renderman Engine to produce a high resolution images without being concerned with the syntax used for Renderman API ie., the user with just a knowledge of Wolfram Language can generate high resolution images in no time. This work was part of my internship at Wolfram Research Inc. in their Mathematica Algorithm R&D department.

Script in Mathematica Editor

Result

Unsignalized T-intersection Simulation

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In this project, we (Ankita Chaudhary and I worked under the supervision of Professor Gopal R. Patil) created a simulation to showcase the actual movement of vehicle on an unsignalized T-Intersection using Cellular Automata technique. This simulaton serves the purpose of training student (pursuing transportation engineering) for an actual survey or data collection.

Class Project

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Pool Game Animation [Code]

Smoke Visualization

Academics

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Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science,
University of California Merced, California, United States
Specialization: Computer Graphics and Animation
Advisor: Marcelo Kallmann
August 2018 - Present


Master of Science in Computer Science,
Oregon State University, Oregon, United States
Specialization: Computer Graphics and Visualization
Advisor: Eugene Zhang
January 2014 - March 2017


Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering,
West Bengal University of Technology, West Bengal, India
Specialization: Computer Science and Engineering
August 2006 - June 2010

Research Experience

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May 2019 - August 2019
Graduate Student Researcher,
Computer Graphics Lab
University of California, Merced
Description: Research on Computer Graphics, Path planning and Navigation in higher dimensional space.

March 2014 - Dec 2016
Graduate Research Assistant,
Computer Graphics and Visualization Group
Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon
Description: Interactive Design and Analysis of 3D Symmetric Linear Tensor Fields, improved techniques for tensor field topologies(such as feature surfaces and degenerate curves) extraction.

October 2010 - December 2013
Research Assistant,
Transportation Systems Engineering Group
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Description: Developed an accurate, reliable and autodidactic web-based virtual laboratory
Principal Investigator: Dr. Gopal R. Patil, Associate Professor, Civil Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India

Professional Experience

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May 2017 - August 2018
Senior Graphics Programmer,
Passur Aerospace Inc, Orlando, Florida, USA
Description: Working on rendering and visualization of flight tracking system.

April 2016 - August 2016
Intern, Mathematica Algorithm R&D
Wolfram Research Inc, Champaign, Illinois, USA
Description: Developed software package to connect Wolfram's Mathematica with Pixar's Renderman,Software package testing for geometry primitives, plot functions and other functionalities used for 3D Printing.
Manager: Dr. Charles Pooh, Manager, Discrete Compuatation, Wolfram Research Inc, USA

Teaching Experience

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August 2018 - Present
Teaching Assistant,
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of California, Merced, California
Courses: Data Structures (CSE 30), Computer Graphics (CSE 170)

January 2014 - March 2016
Graduate Teaching Assistant,
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon
Courses:Analysis of Algorithm(CS 325), Introduction to Databases(CS 340),Opertaing Systems I(CS 344) and Translators(CS 480)

Awards

• Travel Fellowship for NSF funded SOCG 2019, Portland, Oregon

• Received Summer 2019 EECS Bobcat Fellowship

• Received Spring 2019 EECS Bobcat Travel Award

• Received Honorary Citizenship of Corvallis, Oregon for contributions and achievements at Oregon State University by the mayor of city of Corvallis, Oregon, United States

Journal/Proceedings Reviewer

• ICAPS 2019

• Computer Animation and Social Agents(CASA) 2019