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About Me


I am currently a PhD student affiliated to the Computer Vision Lab of the University of Central Florida. I am being advised by Prof. Mubarak Shah and Dr. Rahul Sukthankar. After spending a little more than 5 delightful years in India's Information Technology industry, I decided to move on to academia. Since September 2008, I am here in Orlando, alive and kicking. Life being a graduate student is fun, here are some of my research endeavors. I am not currently looking for a job, however I do seek interesting research internship opportunities in the field of Computer Vision. Feel free to drop me an e-mail at subh[at]cs[dot]ucf[dot]edu.

Career


Subhabrata Bhattacharya is a final year PhD student affiliated to the Computer Vision Lab of the University of Central Florida, being advised by Prof. Mubarak Shah and Dr. Rahul Sukthankar. His research includes analysis of consumer videos for recognition of complex events. He has interned in Microsoft Research, Redmond (WA) and Intel Research under different computer vision projects. He has published several papers in refereed computer vision conference and journals. He has also been nominated for ACM MM 2010 best paper award. Before UCF, he was working as a Staff Software Engineer at the India Software Labs in IBM Bangalore (IN), on IBM's parallel computing framework called the Parallel Environment. Before IBM, he was with the Software Engineering and Technology Labs at Infosys Technologies Ltd., Bangalore (IN) investigating interesting topics like Systems Virtualization, Video on Demand Services and Grid Computing here. He had a short stint with Enterprise Software Development in a mid-size software services firm CMC Ltd. and a start-up firm by the name Softnet Solutions in Kolkata (IN). For around six months, he worked at the Indian Statistical Institute, with Prof. Bhabatosh Chanda, towards the completion of his Bachelor degree in Engineering from Asansol Engineering College.


Google scholar keeps a record of his research progress here. A copy of his resume in PDF format is available here. In case you like the template, feel free to download the source from here and build your own. Long live Latex!

Personal


I spend most of my non-research time with my computer, fiddling with my eight year old love, the Linux operating system and championing Open Source.Here are some of my favorite picks:
  1. Linux flavor - Debian
  2. Audio player - Audacious
  3. Multimedia software - Mplayer/mencoder
  4. Documentation - Pdflatex
  5. Imaging system - Gnu Image Manipulator Program.
Besides Linux and Open source, I'm an outdoor adventure enthusiast and I enjoy camping, snorkeling, mountain biking, canoeing, white-water rafting and rock-climbing. My penchant towards music ranging from heavy metal to classic rock to soft country has increased geometrically since I joined engineering school. Music, my extremely supportive parents, my incomparable wife Bipasha and my sister are my key motivations to do balanced research. Finally, I owe a lot to my alma mater - Asansol Engineering College, the days spent here have taught me more and more about life -the way we are supposed to see it. I have also earned great friends and in fact, the layout of this web-page is contributed by one of my college juniors - Indranath Bhattacharjee.