April 2021: Our tutorial on "Building Digital Twins for Large Scale Augmented Reality" has been accepted at ICCV 2021.
April 2021: Elevated to the grade of IEEE Senior member for my contributions to the profession
November 2020: Check out my talk at EdgeAI on "Spatial Computing: A Collision of Edge and Cloud Computing"
November 2020: Presented a tech talk at IIIT Hyderabad "Perception needs for Spatial Computing headsets: Edge and Cloud"
October 2020: Presented a tech talk at Rochester Institute of Technology on "Perception needs for Spatial Computing headsets"
March 2020: Generic Object recognition with 3D bounding boxes released in latest Lumin update.
March 2020: MagicVerse SDK for XRKit on iOS and Android released
October 2019: Promoted to Senior Director, Perception.
June 2019: Check out our tutorial at CVPR on Perception at Magic Leap.
May 2019: Persistence and sharing features in MagicVerse SDK for ML1 Lumin OS.
January 2019: Moved to start working on World Sensing.
August 2018: Released Magic Leap One!
April 2017: Promoted to Distinguished Fellow/Manager at Magic Leap, Inc.
December 2015: Joined Magic Leap as Principal Engineer, Perception and moved to the bay area.
May 2015: Four of my patents with Qualcomm co-authors on Computer vision, Augmented reality, and peer-to-peer networks got approved by USPTO.
May 2015: Four of my patents with Qualcomm co-authors on Computer vision, Augmented reality, and peer-to-peer networks got approved by USPTO.
March 2015: Joined the robotics team at Qualcomm Research and excited to be working on building drones powered by Qualcomm chipsets. Check out...
August 2014: Had the opportunity to work with amazing interns this summer who pushed the boundaries of context aware computing on mobile phones. Look out for our patents on this soon.
March 2014: My patent based on my work as an intern at Hewlett-Packard on Controlling Frequency of Data Transfer got approved by USPTO.
January 2014: Selected to be on the Technical Committee of the IEEE Information Forensics and Security Society (Term: 2014-2016). More..
January 2014: My patent with Qualcomm co-authors on Object Recognition using Incremental Feature Extraction has been approved by USPTO. More..
September 2013: Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship 2014 announced. Look out for my talk at UMD about QInF. More..
September 2013: Presented a demo and an overview of Qualcomm's Low Power Always-On Context Sensing on Mobile phones at Ubicomp 2013, Zurich, Switzerland.
May 2013: My patent on Reputation in On-line Consumer Markets has been approved by USPTO. Check it out ...
June 2012: Provided an overview of Qualcomm's work in the Context Aware Computing space at SemTech 2012 in San Francisco. More..
November 2011: Presented my work on Information-Theoretic Database Building and Querying for Mobile AR at ISMAR 2011, Basel, Switzerland. More..
October 2011: My patent on Using the Modulation Transfer Function of a Device to Create Digital Content for the Device has been approved by USPTO. Read it now
September 2011: My Ph.D. thesis: Multimedia Forensic Analysis via Intrinsic and Extrinsic Fingerprints now available on Amazon. Get it here..
November 2010: My patent on Data hiding in Compiled Binaries with Prof. Min Wu and Yinian has been approved by USPTO. Read more...
October 2010: My patent with Darko and Cherian on Search Engine Platform has been approved by USPTO. Read more...
January 2010: My patent with Ton and Alan on Controlling Transfer of Access to Data has been approved by USPTO. More ...
August 2009: Joined the Augmented Reality team at Qualcomm Research. To learn more about the Augmented Reality work at Qualcomm, click here.
January 2009: Nominated for the best paper award at the SPIE Media Security Conference.
October 2008: Joined Qualcomm Research, San Diego, CA.
September 2008: Got my Ph.D. degree: I defended my Ph.D. thesis titled Multimedia Forensics via Intrinsic and Extrinsic Fingerprints on September 10, 2008. This thesis was chaired by Prof. Min Wu, and the other members on my thesis committee include Prof. K. J. Ray Liu, Prof. Alexander Barg, Prof. Adrian Papamarcou, and Prof. Douglas W. Oard.
June 2008: My work on Multimedia Forensics Research features in Vision-Systems Design Magazine:
Ray Liu, Ashwin Swaminathan, and Min Wu of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Maryland have developed a method for forensic analysis of digital camera images based on the observation that color interpolation leaves distinct intrinsic traces on images. (June 2008). More ...
March 2008: Awarded the Distinguished Dissertation Fellowship
Selected as ECE Distinguished Dissteration Fellow for the 2007-2008 academic year (March 2008). More ...
August 2007: MERIT and TREND Fair Showcases Summer Research
Two undergraduate students working with me won the overall first place and the best presentation award at the 2007 MERIT fair (August 2007). More ...
February 2007: Named in the the inaugural class of Future Faculty Fellows
Selected as one among twenty five students in the Engineering school to participate in the Clark School's Future Faculty Program (FFP) (February 2007). More ...
June 2005: Awarded Student Travel Grant by the Information Hiding Workshop (IHW) committee to present my first author paper at the IHW.
May 2005: Awarded Goldhaber Travel Grant by the Graduate School, University of Maryland, College Park to present my paper at Information Hiding Workshop.
April 2005: Won the best student paper award in IEEE ICASSP 2005
My paper on Security of Feature Extraction in Image Hashing was selected as the winner of the best student paper contetxt in Multimedia Signal Processing category. (April 2005). More ...