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I live in Palo Alto, California with my wife Nevena and our two boys. We spent 10 years of our post-college youth in San Francisco, a city we adore and consider our home town in the US. In 2009, my wife's clinical rotations and medical residency turned us into nomads and before settling down in Cambridge, we spent a couple of years living in a variety of places, including Sacramento (CA), Manhattan (NY), Santa Monica (CA), Honolulu and Kailua (HI), and finally, St. Pete Beach and Tierra Verde (FL). We settled down in Cambridge, MA for my wife to finish her residency while I pursued my PhD at MIT. In 2019 and after a series of brutal winter storms, we moved back to balmy California.

My wife and I love traveling, hiking, swimming, diving, skiing or just about any outdoor activity. We also love to sample restaurants of any ethnic cuisine (especially sushi!), watch movies and musicals. Since we've become parents, most of our free time is spent playing with the kids at a nearby park.

One of my greatest passions is photography, especially underwater photography. I try to squeeze in a dive trip every now and then. I was lucky to be able to dive on a weekly basis while living on Oahu in Hawaii. I've also had the pleasure to dive in Maui and the Big Island (Hawaii), Roatan and Utila (Honduras), Sea of Cortez, Cozumel and Riviera Maya Cenotes (Mexico), the Adriatic Sea (Croatia), the Island of Reunion (France), Little Cayman Island (Cayman Islands), the Bahamas, Curacao, and West Palm Beach (Florida). I occasionaly enter underwater photography competitions. My biggest success so far has been winning the First Prize in the Wide Angle Unrestricted category at The Digital Shootout in Little Cayman organized by Backscatter.

I am very much interested in underwater diving safety and continue to improve my diving skills. I am a certified PADI Divemaster and a DAN (Dive Alert Network) member.

As for my professional life, I am a Computer Scientist and my fields of expertise include computer graphics, 3D printing and perception for autonomous vehicles. I am currently an Engineering Manager at Level 5, Lyft's Autonomy Vehicle program where I manage the LiDAR/Perception team. In 2017 I co-founded Inkbit, a 3D printing startup where I led the engineering team that built the first 3D printer for mass manufacturing with precise, machine-vision/AI based process control. From 2012 to 2017 I was a PhD student and a member of the Computational Fabrication Group and the Computer Graphics Group within CSAIL at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). My research advisor was Prof. Wojciech Matusik.

Before that, I spent 12 years working in industry as a graphics software engineer and researcher. From 2008 to 2012 I was a member of the Advanced Rendering Technology group at Intel, researching real-time rendering algorithms for use in the entertainment industry. From 2000 until 2008 I was a member of the R&D group at Pixar Animation Studios, with a short stint as a Technical Director in the Cars Lighting Department. My film credits include Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Cars, Ratatouille, and WALL-E.