L a k s    R a g h u p a t h i

Lab 					
GRAVIR/INRIA Rhone-Alpes 		
655, Avenue de l'Europe 		
38334, Montbonnot, France 		
Tel: +33 (0) 476615448 			
Email: laks AT imag DOT fr
Web: http://www-evasion.imag.fr/Membres/Laks.Raghupathi


E d u c a t i o n
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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


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

System Administrator (part-time) 				Oct '03 - July '04
GRAVIR laboratory, INRIA Rhone-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
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Languages: 	C, C++, Visual C++
OS: 		Linux and Windows system admin (installation & maintenance)
Graphic APIs: 	OpenGL, Visualization Tool Kit, GLUT, Qt
Others: 	MATLAB,LaTeX, MS Office


P u b l i c a t i o n s
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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 '04 State-of-the-Art-Reports, pp. 119-139, Eurographics 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. 6, pp. 708-718, 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, pp. 15-26, LNCS No. 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
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* 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.


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Available upon request.