Research Projects
Masters Thesis: SmokeSeer
3D Gaussian Splatting for Reconstruction of Wildfire Scenes [Project Page]
| Guide: Dr. Ioannis Gkioulekas | Pittsburgh, PA | Fall 2023 - Present |
3DV 2026 Poster
- Decomposed wildfire scenes into smoke and surface Gaussians for smoke-free rendering to assist firefighting.
- Integrated fluid particle hydrodynamics into the 3D Gaussian Splatting pipeline to accurately model the temporal dependence of smoke, resulting in more realistic and artifact-free reconstructions.
- Adapted Mast3r-SfM to perform localization of the RGB and thermal cameras in the same coordinate frame.
Needle: Deep Learning Framework
A Deep Learning Framework in Python [Report]
| Course Project for Deep Learning Systems | Pittsburgh, PA | Fall 2024 |
- Created a general purpose library for differentiable programming from scratch with support for C and CUDA backends.
- Implemented features such as gradient accumulation and distributed training (NCCL) for training larger models.
- Trained Llama-3 architecture across 8 4090s nodes on OpenWebText using custom NCCL and Gloo backend.
Multiview Diffusion Models
Multiview Diffusion Models for Image-to-Image Translation
| Course Project for Learning for 3D Vision | Pittsburgh, PA | Spring 2024 |
- Developed a multiview-aware diffusion model for translating between domains, such as day-to-night.
- Designed a conditional U-Net architecture with multiview feature aggregation using epipolar constraints.
RGB-Thermal Sensor Fusion
RGB-Thermal Sensor Fusion for ADAS Applications
| Guide: Prof. Aswin Sankaranarayanan (CMU), Prof. Kaushik Mitra (IIT Madras) | August 2022 - May 2023 |
- Proposed a physics-based approach to create a low-light RGB, well-lit RGB and thermal image of the same scene.
- Implemented a novel cross-attention architecture to super-resolve thermal images using RGB as a guide.