manasi

I am a Ph.D student advised by Prof. Davide Scaramuzza at Robotics and Perception Group, which is part of the Department of Informatics, University of Zurich, and the Department of Neuroinformatics, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich. During my Ph.D, I also worked at the Camera Culture Group at MIT, advised by Prof. Ramesh Raskar.

My research interests lie at the intersection of computer vision and computational photography. I am particularly interested in developing algorithms for event-based cameras, and their applications in robotics and augmented reality. Recently, I was featured in the NCCR Robotics campaign! Watch the video to learn more about my research with event-cameras.

I graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with Masters in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2018. During this time I was a research assitant at Illumination and Imaging Lab advised by Prof. Srinivasa Narasimhan. I also interned at Scape Technologies which was recently acquired by Facebook!



Awards

  • Awarded the UZH Candoc Grant 2023 for outstanding research
  • Best Systems Paper Award at RSS 2020 for AlphaPilot: Autonomous Drone Racing
  • Winner of the Robotics Summer School - ARCHE 2019 Search Rescue Challenge (Team Avengers)
  • Recipient of Graduate Student Assembly/Provost Conference scholarship at Carnegie Mellon University.
  • Recipient of LVP-MITra fellowship awarded jointly by MIT Media Labs and LV Prasad Eye Institute

Teaching

  • Fall 2020 & Fall 2021: UZH-DINF2039 / ETH-151-0632-00L : Vision Algorithms for Mobile Robotics (Teaching assistant, UZH/ETH)
  • Spring 2017: 18491 Fundamentals of Signal Processing (Teaching assistant, Carnegie Mellon University)
  • Fall 2015: EEE F215 Digital Design (Teaching assistant, BITS Pilani, India)