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