Laks Raghupathi Resume
L A K S                   R A G H U P A T H I

Lab
Home
GRAVIR/INRIA Rhône-Alpes
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655, Avenue de l'Europe
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38334, Montbonnot, France
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Tel: +33 (0) 476615449

Email: laks AT imag DOT fr

Web: http://www-evasion.imag.fr/Membres/Laks.Raghupathi


E d u c a t i o n

Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG)
Grenoble, France
Ph.D. candidate in Image, Vision and Robotics
2003-


University of Texas at Arlington (UTA)
Arlington, TX, USA
M.S., Electrical Engineering with thesis (GPA 3.78)
2002


Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS)
Pilani, India
B.E.(Hons.), Electrical and Electronics (GPA 3.56)
1999

E x p e r i e n c e

                          
Research Student
Feb '03 - Present
Project EVASION, INRIA Rhone-Alpes
Montbonnot, France


System Administrator (part-time)
Oct '03 - Jul '04
GRAVIR laboratory, INRIA Rhône-Alpes
Montbonnot, France


Graduate Research Assistant
Sept '00 - Dec '02
Virtual Environment Lab, UT Arlington
Arlington, TX, USA


Programmer Analyst
June '99 - June '00
Cognizant Technology Solution
Chennai, India


Intern
 June '98 - Dec '98
Texas Instruments India
Bangalore, India

S k i l l s

Languages:
 C, C++, Visual C++
OS:
Linux and Windows system admin (installation & maintenance)
Graphic APIs:
OpenGL, Visualization Tool Kit, GLUT, Qt
Others:
MATLAB, MAPLE, LATEX, MS Office

P u b l i c a t i o n s

M. Teschner, S. Kimmerle, B. Heidelberger, G. Zachmann, L. Raghupathi, A. Fuhrmann, M.-P. Cani, F. Faure, N.-M. Thalmann, W. Strasser and P. Volino, "Collision Detection for Deformable Objects, Computer Graphics Forum, Volume 24, Number 1, page 61--81 - March 2005

G. Zachmann, M. Teschner, S. Kimmerle, B. Heidelberger, Laks Raghupathi, A. Fuhrmann, "Real-Time Collision Detection for Dynamic Virtual Environments", IEEE VR Tutorials - March 2005

M. Teschner, S. Kimmerle, B. Heidelberger, G. Zachmann, L. Raghupathi, A. Fuhrmann, M.-P. Cani, F. Faure, N.-M. Thalmann, W. Strasser and P. Volino, ``Collision Detection for Deformable Objects", in Proc. Eurographics State-of-the-Art-Reports '04, pp. 119-135, Eurogaphics Association, 2004

L. Raghupathi, L. Grisoni, F. Faure, D. Marchal, M.-P. Cani and C. Chaillou, ``An Intestine Surgery Simulator: Real-Time Collision Processing and Visualization", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 707-718, Nov/Dec 2004

L. Raghupathi, V.Cantin, F. Faure and M.-P. Cani, ``Real-time Simulation of Self-collisions for  Virtual Intestinal Surgery", in Surgery Simulation and Soft Tissue Modeling, LNCS 2673, Springer, Heidelberg, 2003

L. Raghupathi et al., ``Simulation of Special Visual Effects for Virtual Laparoscopic Surgery", Proc. Medicine Meets Virtual Reality '03, pp. 1-3. IOS Press, Amsterdam

L. Raghupathi et al., ``Simulation of bleeding during laparoscopic herniorrhaphy", Proc. Medicine Meets Virtual Reality '02, pp. 382-387, IOS Press, Amsterdam.
 
O t h e r   I n f o

* Member of Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu honor societies, IEEE & ACM
* Top 25 rank in High School Final exam, Member of Student Committee for Academic
Activities at BITS, Grad School Fellowship at UTA
* Reviewer for Eurographics '03, Dagstuhl Scientific Visualization '03
* Student Volunteer for Visualization Symposium '03, SIGGRAPH '04
* Organizing Committee Eurographics '04
* Indian citizen with near-native English and French fluency


 R e f e r e n c e s

 Available upon request.