Highlighted Research
Interaction: MR, PCG & Game AI

Designed and developed a mixed reality interactive experience that responds to real time changes in the user's environment. The interaction scans the room using a Kinect, performs surface detection, and using a combination of Game AI, Player Modeling and PCG dynamically generates levels for the user.
Visualization: The Marvel Comic Universe

Designed a interactive visualization in D3 for Marvel comic book enthusiasts and aggregate media analysts to explore the vast variety of Marvel characters, their relationships with one another and to their universe. Developed a relational database and REST APIs in Django.
Creativity & Cognition: A Research Assistant

Developed an interactive concept search engine using IBM Watson and Python that could comb through scientific papers and journals to aid the literature review process. The engine also tracked the cognitive research thought process of the user.
Narrative Intelligence: Story Generator

Designed an AI quest generator and simulation based story generator to create an RPG for users to play on their iOS devices. Players solve quests for clues, and question other players to discover the murderer.

Resumé

Work Experience

Disney Research, Pittsburgh
Research Lab Associate Intern
- Formulated a mixed integer linear programing constraints for live interactive narratives that take into account temporal and resource constraints in real time, mitigating reauthoring and operating costs, allowing for consistent story beats and dramatic tension and improving scalability.

Georgia Institute of Technology
NSF iCorps Entrepreneurial Lead
- R&D for a knowledge extraction tool capable of extracting deep semantic knowledge.
- Aimed to improve the precision, relevance and fertility of knowledge that could be retrieved in response to queries.

Graduate Research Assistant
- Worked with campus research groups to open data and APIs
- Lead workshops & tutorials on web mobile, Unity, Django, REST API development, and prototyping.

Capgemini India Pvt.Ltd.
Consultant('12), Sr. Software Engineer('12)
Developed native, web and hybrid mobile applications using Sencha Touch & PhoneGap on iOS.

Bayer Business Services
 Software Engineer ('11), Application Analyst('12)
Helped initiate the first mobile development team in BBS-IDC India.
Worked on Sencha Touch, Google Maps, QR Code and PhoneGap.

Education

North Carolina State University
 Ph.D. Computer Science (2017-current)
Principles of Expressive Machines Lab

Georgia Institute of Technology
 MS Computer Science (2014-16)
Entertainment Intelligence Lab

Fr. Conceicao Rodrigues
 B.Engg. Computer Engineering (2007-11)

Relevant Courses

Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence
AI Storytelling in Virtual Worlds
Knowledge Based AI
Game AI
Computational Creativity

Interaction
Information Visualization
Interactive Narrative
Mobile Apps & Services
Augmented Reality
Video Game Design

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