Bio
Pratik is a final year M.Tech.+Ph.D. dual degree student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. His Ph.D. thesis focuses on Reconstructing Hand Shape, Pose and Appearance for Tracking from Monocular Video, advised by Parag Chaudhuri. Specifically, his work encompassespersonalized shape modeling, articulated pose estimation, 3D model-based tracking using non-linear optimization, and illumination-aware appearance reconstruction using Monte Carlo path tracing in a differentiable deferred rendering framework. During his PhD, he was an intern with the Graphics group at Adobe Research. Previously, he completed his B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur where he developed MIST (Medical Image Segmentation Tool for reconstructing 3D bone from MRI data) in collaboration with All India Institute of Medical Sciences Jodhpur as part of his B.Tech. project.
Pratik was featured at SIGGRAPH 2023 for being one of the eight students to have achieved a top-three place twice in the ACM Student Research Competition, in the history of SIGGRAPH (2019, 2022). His research on hand shape model was featured on the ACM SIGGRAPH blog. He served as a student volunteer at SIGGRAPH 2018 and SIGGRAPH 2021. He won the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship India 2017 and was also awarded TCS Research Scholar Fellowship in 2019.
