Ph.D (UBC), B. Tech (IITG), CF (Nytilus INC.)
- Assistant Professor in Mehta Family School of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence at Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India
- Co-founder at Nytilus Inc., Toronto, a computational imaging startup for industrial applications. Raised seed investments from early stage VCs and Canadian industrial grants.
- Ph.D. in Computer Science from The University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, Canada.
- B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IITG).
- 12+ years of experience in leading academic and industrial projects in the areas of computer vision, computer graphics, and machine learning.
- Recipient of Mitacs-INRIA Globalink Research Award and Four-Year Doctoral Fellowship at UBC.
- 15+ in peer reviewed research papers in conferences and journals (Google Scholar).
- Love to travel. 18 countries and counting.
- I have also hosted several meetups related to language exchange and artificial intelligence in Canada and Europe.
- I was featured in Entrepreneur Middle-East magazine.
- Homepage: https://debanga.github.io
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/debanga/
- Kaggle: https://www.kaggle.com/debanga
- 2016-2017: IMAGINE Lab, INRIA Grenoble Rhone-Alpes, France
- 2011-2012: IMAGER Lab, UBC, Canada
- 2011-2012: Iwahori Lab, Chubu University, Japan
- 2010-2011: Computer Vision and Fuzzy Systems Lab, Hanyang University, South Korea
- 2010-2012: Image Processing and Computer Vision (IPCV) Lab, IIT Guwahati, India
- Computer vision
- Machine learning, in particular deep learning
- Human face:
- Face tracking and animation
- Facial emotion recognition
- Biomechanical modeling of human face
- Industrial inspection
- General object detection, classification, and segmentation
- High dynamic range imaging
- Polarization-based object defect detection
- Others
- Computer Graphics (Facial animation, facial muscle simulation)
- AR/VR (Image-based scene capture for AR content generation)
- 2019: Selected to represent Nytilus INC. in MoveUp Acceleration Program in Belgium (raised 100K Euros)
- 2018: Selected to represent Nytilus INC. in Techstars Acceleration Program in Dubai, U.A.E. (raised 120K USD)
- 2016: Best Paper Award, the 21st International Conference on 3D Web Technology (Web3D '16)
- 2016: Mitacs Globalink Research Award - INRIA, MITACS and UBC
- 2012-2016: Four Year Doctoral Fellowship, University of British Columbia
- 2013: Gordon Research Trainee Fellowship, Gordon Research Conference on Eye Movements
- 2011: Japanese Research Merit Award, Inspec Inc. Japan