Ritesh Sharma
School of Engineering
University of California, Merced
California, United States
rsharma39 (at) ucmerced (dot) edu
News
| 05.15.2020 | Joined as Visiting PhD Researcher under the supervision of Professor Patrick Baudisch at Hasso Plattner Institute, Potsdam, Germany |
| 04.24.2020 | Poster Paper titled "Data Driven Multihazard Risk Visualization" accepted for EuroVis 2020 |
| 03.29.2020 | Poster Paper accepted for ACM Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games 2020 (I3D), San Francisco |
| 03.26.2020 | Received Spring 2020 EECS Bobcat Travel Fellowship Award |
| 03.07.2020 | Poster Paper titled "Integrating Local Collision Avoidance with Shortest Path Maps" accepted for Eurographics 2020 |
| 08.02.2019 | Accepted as Student Volunteer at ACM SIGGRAPH ASIA 2019, November 16th-November 21st, Brisbane, Australia |
| 05.13.2019 | Received Travel Award for NSF funded SOCG, 2019, Portland, Oregon, USA |
| 04.29.2019 | Accepted as Student Volunteer at ACM SIGGRAPH 2019,July 28th- August 1st, Los Angeles, USA |
| 04.01.2019 | Elected as Secretary of the Merced Indian Graduate Student Association(MIGSA) at University of California, Merced |
| 03.19.2019 | Received Summer 2019 EECS Bobcat Fellowship |
| 03.07.2019 | Accepted as Student Volunteer at Eurographics 2019,May 6th-10th, Genoa, Italy |
| 03.01.2019 | Received Spring 2019 EECS Bobcat Travel Fellowship Award |
| 08.15.2018 | Joined PhD Program in EECS at University of California, Merced |
| 05.08.2017 | Joined as Senior Graphics Programmer at Passur Aerospace Inc., Orlando, Florida |
| 03.13.2017 | Paper titled "Force-directed layout of origin-destination flow maps" accepted for IJGIS |
| 03.08.2017 | Defended M.S thesis on "Interactive Design and Transition Point Analysis of 3D Linear Symmetric Tensor Fields" |
| 02.28.2017 | Paper titled "Maximum Number of Transition Points in 3D Linear Symmetric Tensor Fields" accepted for TOPOVIS 2017 |
| 08.11.2017 | Paper titled "Design principles for origin-destination flow maps" accepted for journal of CGIS |
| 12.05.2016 | Paper titled "Feature surfaces in symmetric tensor fields based on eigenvalue manifold" invited for presentation at SIGGRAPH Asia 2016 |
| 10.27.2016 | Paper titled "Feature surfaces in symmetric tensor fields based on eigenvalue manifold" invited for presentation at IEEEVIS WEEK 2016 |
| 04.04.2016 | Joined as an Intern in Mathematica Algorithm R&D team, Wolfram Research Inc., Champaign, Illinois |
| 03.01.2016 | Paper titled "Feature surfaces in symmetric tensor fields based on eigenvalue manifold" accepted at IEEE TVCG |
I am a PhD student in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Merced.
Currrently, I am investigating on different spatial representation techniques for Path planning in
higher dimensional space under the supervision of Professor Marcelo Kallmann. Apart from Path planning and spatial representation,
I am also working on improving path following behavior for Multi-agents and Autonomous Crowds. Prior
to joining at UC Merced, I worked as Senior Graphics Programmer at Passur Aerospace Inc. I holds a
master's degree in Computer Science from the school of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
at Oregon State University where I was advised by
Professor Eugene Zhang. The title of my master's thesis was "Interactive Design and Transition Point Analysis
of 3D Linear Symmetric Tensor Fields". My areas of interest are Computer Graphics, Animation, Robotics Algorithms,
Geometry Processing, Computational Geometry and Scientific Visualization.
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Interactive Design and Transition Point Analysis of 3D Linear Symmetric Tensor Fields
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
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
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
Pool Game Animation [Code] |
Smoke Visualization |
Realtime crowd simulation |
3D Voronoi Diagram |
Predictive Modeling of Flood Susceptibility, Phase 1 |
Academics
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
May 2019 - Present
Graduate Student Researcher,
Computer Graphics Lab
University of California, Merced
Description: Research on Computer Graphics, Path planning and Navigation in higher dimensional space.
Advisor: Professor Marcelo Kallmann
May 2020 - August 2020
PhD Researcher(Intern),
Human Computer Interaction Lab
Hasso-Plattner Institute, Potsdam, Germany
Description: Investigating on geometry interaction related to laser cutting.
Advisor: Professor Patrick Baudisch
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.
Advisor: Professor Eugene Zhang
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: Professor Gopal R. Patil, Associate Professor, Civil Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
Professional Experience
May 2017 - August 2018
Senior Graphics Programmer,
Passur Aerospace Inc, Orlando, Florida, USA
Description: Working on rendering and visualization of flight tracking system.
Manager: Matt Marcela and Mike Trujillo
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
August 2018 - Present
Teaching Assistant,
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
University of California, Merced, California
Courses: Data Structures (CSE 30), Computer Graphics (CSE 170), Introduction to Computing I: Java (CSE 020)
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
Received Spring 2020 EECS Bobcat Travel Award
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
Major Courses, University of California, Merced
CS 287 Computer Animation and Simulation
Major Courses, Oregon State University
CS 551 Computer Graphics
CS 552 Computer Animation
CS 554 Geometry Modeling
CS 556 Computer Vision
CS 557 Computer Graphics Shaders
CS 519 Special Topic: Vector and Tensor Field Visualization
CS 572 Computer Architecture
CS 575 Introduction to Parallel Programming
CS 515 Algorithm and Datastructures
MTH 551 Numerical Linear Algebra
MTH 552 Numerical Solution of Ordinary Differential Equations
Miscellaneous
Peer mentored two first year PhD students under UC Merced GRAD-EXCEL Peer Mentor Program for the academic year 2020-2021
Served as the Secretary of the Merced Indian Graduate Student Association (MIGSA) at University of California Merced for the academic year 2019-2020
Served as Student Volunteer at ACM SIGGRAPH 2019,July 28th- August 1st, Los Angeles, USA
Mentored a senior undergraduate student under REU (Research Experience for Undergraduate) Program during Summer 2015, funded by NSF.
Poster Presentation on Mode Surface Extraction Using A-Patches at Engineering Research Expo held at Oregon Convention Center, Portland, Oregon, Mar 4, 2015.
Active member of technical and scientific committee in the International conference for Transportation Planning and Methodologies for Developing Countries(TPMDC), 2012 at IIT Bombay.
Active member of organising committee in National Conference, InTranSe 2011, Conducted by CDAC, Trivandrum at IIT Bombay.
Awarded a certificate of merit by Howrah Municipal Corporation for securing highest marks in Secondary School Examination in the entire ward(a small divsion of a city).
Lead the school quiz team upto top 8 schools in the QUEST, a Science Quiz competition conducted by Birla Industrial & Technological Museum, Kolkata.
Won 2nd prize in the Kolkata chapter of All Bengal SPELLinc Competition, 2003 and led team to Grand Finale of All Bengal SPELLinc Competition, 2003.
Won 2nd prize in the Quiz Contests conducted by Society of Human Growth, Kolkata and Salkia Bharat Sangha, Howrah in the year, 2002.
Won 3rd prize in the Drawing competition conducted by Kolkata Traffic Police during Road Safety Week, 2001.
Wrote poems for the school magazine and the poem named A Land called India was published in the Hindustan Times(one of the leading newspaper in India).
Participated in two day workshop on "ASTRONOMY FOR ENGINEERS" conducted by Department of Engineering Sciences and Humanities, Siliguri Institute of Technology.