Distinguished Dissertation Award from Seoul National University for Ph.D. thesis titled 'Constrained Optimization for Translucent Hindrance Removal from a Single Image'
IEI Young Engineers Award 2023 (awarded by ISRO Chairman Dr. S. Somnath)
INAE Young Associate 2024
Outstanding Young Researcher Award, Venus International Foundation (May 2023)
Best Paper Award, IEEE 8th International Conference on CVIP (July 2023)
Inventor of over 60 patents
Top publications in CVPR 2020, CVPR 2017, ICCV 2017
Research Experience
Advanced Research Lab and Multimedia R&D Group, Samsung Electronics HQ, South Korea (2014–2021)
Developed 'Intelligent Scan': a deep learning-based biometric authentication system combining iris and face recognition
Designed anti-spoofing CNN models for face and fingerprint biometric security
Worked on activity detection from mobile video, stable GIF creation, image auto-categorization, and auto-enhancement
Research internship at the University of Alberta, Canada, via Mitacs Globalink