CV

Education

• B.S. in Computer Science & Biomedical Engineering, University of Houston, December 2024

Research Experience

• March 2024: Student Researcher
  • Institution: University of Washington
  • 3D Reconstruction of Articulated Objects for Real-to-Sim-to-Real Applications
  • Research Group: Personal Robotics Lab
  • Mentor: Helen Wang
  • Principal Investigator: Dr. Siddhartha Srinivasa/Dr. Dieter Fox
• November 2022: Student Researcher
  • Institution: University of Houston
  • Pose Analysis for Quality Assessment in Face Recognition Applications
  • Research Group: Quantitative Imaging Lab
  • Principal Investigator: Dr. Shishir Shah
• March 2021: Student Researcher
  • Institution: University of Houston
  • Stimulating Neural Activity via Gamification in Neural Assessments
  • Research Group: Clinical Neural Engineering lab
  • Principal Investigator: Dr. Nuri Ince

Work Experience

• Summer 2024: Software Engineering Intern
  • Microsoft
  • Service Excellence and DDOS Protection for Office AI
  • Manager: David Das
• Summer 2023: Sofware Development Engineering Intern
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Frontend Platform for AWS Supply Chain - LLM Integration for AWS Supply Chain Help Center
  • Manager: James Walton
• Summer 2015: Data Software Engineer Intern
  • Northrop Grumman
  • Graph Network Application for Enterprise
  • Manager: Caleb Stockton

Skills

• Programming
• Machine Learning
  • Image Processing
  • Graphics
  • Deep Learning
• Software Engineering
• Signal Processing

Publications & Writings

Minimizing Number of Distinct Poses for Pose-Invariant Face Recognition Face Recognition

Carter Ung, Pranav Mantini, Shishir Shah (2025). "Minimizing Number of Distinct Poses for Pose-Invariant Face Recognition", Under Review for International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP) 2025

Awards

• Provost Undergraduate Research Scholar
• Brookshire Scholar
• Regan Endowment Scholar
• Roy & Lillie Scholar
• SASE Chevron National Scholar
• Goldwater Nominee

Service and leadership

• President, VP, Historian for the Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers at University of Houston