Research Summary

Industry Research

My research work in industry focused on cloud security. Specifically, I contributed to many open source research projects in cloud security, including Integrity Shield, Kubernetes Operators, Policies for Open Cluster Management and ArgoCD Interlace while being a researcher at IBM Research - Tokyo, Japan.

Prior to that, I also worked and on research projects in the area of IT Service Analytics which won several technical awards internally at IBM as well as led to many publications.

PhD Research and related projects (March 2010 to March 2014)

My PhD research focused on using online multi-user 3D virtual reality based experimental space for solving real world problems in transportation domain, specifically for sensing human driving behavioral data.

I built a 3D virtual reality based experimental space to empower traffic engineers so that they can study human factor that influence driving behavior, against various transport scenarios.

I also developed a novel framework for authoring and executing complex traffic scenarios in a 3D virtual reality based experimental space for the purpose of conducting driver behavioral studies .

Please see the project page and here.

This work won multiple research awards.

Internship Research & Project Research (July 2009 to March 2010)

As an internship student and later as a project researcher at the “Global Lab” in the National Institute of Informatics, I worked on a Collaborative Scientific Visualization research project which is a part of NII Grand Challenge Project.

For this, I designed and developed a solution for real time collaboration in bio-molecular science by integrating existing molecular modeling and dynamics tools with the 3D virtual world so that collaborative molecular modeling and dynamics can be realized in a virtual world based on OpenSim world simulator platform.

This application enables both scientists and the general public to participate in scientific discussions related to bio-molecular science on the internet.

Please see the demo video here and the project page.

This research work resulted in many publications in international conferences.

Master's Thesis Research (August 2008 to May 2009)

During my graduate study, I worked on a thesis in the multi disciplinary areas of haptics and virtual reality under the supervision of Prof.Peter Haddawy.

For this, I implemented a virtual reality based dental simulation system that exploits haptic interaction. This work focused on the real time manipulation of volumetric 3D tooth model data by a cutting tool.

For further details of the results of this research work (the papers related to this work), please see the publication section.

Please see the related videos here, the screens shots of the dental simulator here and the project page.

This work won the best thesis award.