About
Hello! I am Snehal Padhye.
PhD Candidate, Imaging Science, RIT
I am a fifth year PhD student at Chester F Carlson Center for Imaging Science at Rochester Institute of Technology, New York. I am priviledged to have Dr. James Ferwerda as my advisor. I am working in Visual Imaging and Technology Lab in developing methods for realistic digital representation of cultural heritage objects. It involves techniques to capture and model surface topography and material reflectance/transmission of complex planar objects like paintings and manuscripts and rendering them correctly(realistically) across devices especially Tangible imaging display systems. This has given me an opportunity to work on topics as diverse as camera calibration, color calibration, structured light profilometry and writing cool graphics applications.
- sp1471@rit.edu
Skills
I am a self taught programmer and I have worked in diverse projects and acquired following coding skills over time.
- Python
- Unity
- Three.js
- MATLAB
- GLSL/HLSL
- JavaScript
- HTML
- C/C++
- PyTorch
- TensorFlow
- Java
- C#
- SQL
Resume
Here is my complete CV and an1-pager.
Education
Doctor of Philosophy
2018 - present
Imaging Science
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
Thesis Topic:Techniques to create a realistic digital collection of near planar cultural heritage objects.
CGPA: 3.69/4
Master of Technology
2013 - 2015
Signal Processing
College of Engineering Pune, India
Thesis Topic: Feature Extraction from microwave data using backscatter coefficient.
CGPA: 9.13/10
Bachelor of Technology
2009 - 2013
Electronics and communication
Ramdeobaba College of Engineering and Management, Nagpur, India
Thesis Topic: Application of Programmable Logic Controller for automating Industrial sorting.
CGPA: 73%
Work Experience
Research Intern ( Incoming )
22 May - 12 Aug 2022
Image and Video Processing Group
Dolby Laboratories
PPO Hardware Intern
2 May - 28 Aug 2022
Display Exploration Team
Apple Inc.
Modified components in the rendering pipeline to enable simulation and exploration of volumetric effects for prototype displays.- Evaluated the requirements and limitations and developed an application to demonstrate the volumetric effects within the framework.
- Conducted psychophysical experiments to evaluate the effects of the algorithm.
- Worked on generating ground truth data generation for deep learning based model of the algorithm.
- Contributed in optimization of the algorithm.
Research Intern
17 May - 3 Sept 2021
AR Display Engineering Team
Facebook Reality Labs
Developed ’AR Simulator’ to determine product specifications and inform engineering requirements.- Evaluated the display pipeline feasibility of a Unity simulation.
- Simulated key components usable for Oculus link and standalone HMD.
- Augmented existing simuations to the AR display pipeline components for a more realistic experience of the product.
Teaching Assistant
Spring 2019
Computer Resource Pool
Responsible for solving programming queries for anyone in the department.Teaching Assistant
Fall 2018
Imaging Science Fundamentals
Responsible for conducting and grading labs.System Engineer
2015 - 2018
Tata Consultancy Services
Engineering and Industrial Services unit
Pune, India
- Lead Scripting functionality of Monitoring and Control (M&C) System for Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT), a precursor for Square Kilometer Array (SKA).
- Redesigned an existing unstable scripting engine and completed it in 80% less time with both GUI and Command Line Interface(CLI), increasing requirement coverage to 100%.
- Lead Alarm designing for M&C system. Improved alarm configuration time by 80%. Increased requirement coverage from 40% to 80%. Earned six-sigma green belt for the same.
- Started an initiative to apply machine learning in automation of data capture and processing and in health and fault analysis of large experimental setup such as GMRT.
