Manu is a PhD student in the Computational Media department at the University of California at Santa Cruz. He is also a part of the Creative Coding Lab supervised by Professor Angus Forbes. He received a master of science in computer science from the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he was a part of the Electronic Visualization Lab. He has a bachelor in computer science from the Cochin University of Science and Technology.
Manu's research focuses on real-time graphics and machine learning. Recent advances have inspired Manu to explore neural network-assisted techniques for ray tracing and global illumination. In his research, Manu aims to solve various rendering problems with deep learning solutions optimized for high performance.
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