Hi,
I'm Vijay.
A software developer interested in large data sets used for analytics and visualization. My favorite programming language is Python. I'm currently working at Caterpillar in Chicago, Illinois.
I have a passion for making games and have made a few with my friends on itch.
At the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) I worked on human computer interaction research projects with the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL). One of our research projects won an honorable mention at IEEE VAST 2017.
I was also an active member and team captain for Engineering Design Team (EDT) where we created robots to compete in university funded and state level competitions.
From Zbrush Summit 2018
Work
2020
Caterpillar
Associate Data Specialist (January 2020 - Present)
Contribute to design, development and deployment of Caterpillar’s state-of-the-art digital platform.
I work in an agile IT team to provide computer programming assistance in the development of several
enterprise software projects.
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2019
Pentair Flow & Filtrations
Software Engineer (June 2018 - January 2020)
Contributed to building a commercial IoT system in the cloud for filtration solution products. The work itself involved working on both the device level and architecture level.
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2018
Continuum
Undergraduate Researcher (August 2017 - May 2018)
Continuum unifies the functionality of high-resolution displays and computer enhanced group collaboration with arrays of ambient sensors providing users the opportunity to collaborate with local and remote colleagues and their data more effectively by
giving the room the ability to anticipate their needs. I worked on integrating sensor inputs like continuous speech recognition, created/managed server and database to host data, implemented authentication and authorization for multiple clients, and expanding interactivity with gestures (via Kinect and Optitrak). Image by Jonas Talandis, EVL.
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Articulate
Undergraduate Researcher (May 2017 - May 2018)
Articulate is a semi-automated visual analytic system that is guided by a conversational user interface to allow users to verbally describe and then manipulate what they want to see. Joined project in Summer 2017 and expanded speech recognition to integrate Alexa and created/managed noSQL database with MongoDB into SAGE2. Image by Lance Long, EVL.
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Interdisciplinary Product Development, Caterpillar
Senior Design Project (August 2017 - May 2018)
Design and develop a product for Caterpillar in an interdisciplinary team made of industrial/graphic designers, marketing, and computer engineering students over the course of one year. Using an iterative process of rapid prototyping based on careful market/engineering research to integrate powerful human centric innovation into new areas.
We wanted to develop a technology not for next year but for the next decade where natural interfaces using small wireless connected devices are used to augment human capabilities and enhance the way we live.
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Electronic Carnival
Embedded Media: Physical Computing, Individual Project (January 2018 - May 2018)
From the screenshot you can see the newly created VR room by the New Media Art Lab which uses room scale VR with the HTC Vive, gesture/depth/rgb imagery with Microsoft’s Kinect,
and hand gesture recognition with Leap Motion (now mounted on the Vive)! I began development of this room in March of 2018.
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2017
IEEE VAST Challenge 2017
Participant (May 2017 - October 2017)
Solution created in collaboration with Bartosz Kupiec, Andrew Burks, Timothy Luciani, and Dr. Elisabeta Marai (faculty advisor) for VAST mini-challenge 3. We dealt with multispectral satellite data to produce the small multiples and linked
semantic zooming. Bartosz and I did most of the work creating the interface and collaborated with rest of the team to develop the science and our idea. I went to Phoenix, Arizona to present our work.
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Engineering Design Team
Captain (August 2017 - May 2018), Software Developer (August 2016 - July 2017)
Captain for Robobrawl 2018 competition (see top image). Which means developing the mechanical, electrical, and software aspects of the robot. Competition was on March 9-10 in UIUC!
Software developer for team GlaDOS in 2017 Midwestern Robotics Design Competition (see bottom image). Team members (aside from myself): Hassan Ali (Captain), Tomoki Kamitani (Co-Captain), Klaidi Cako (Mechanical Engineer), and Jude Ade Nwokenkwo (Mechanical Engineer). I created a vision system that used an ADHOC network to provide live video feed to connected clients
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Software developer for team GlaDOS in 2017 Midwestern Robotics Design Competition (see bottom image). Team members (aside from myself): Hassan Ali (Captain), Tomoki Kamitani (Co-Captain), Klaidi Cako (Mechanical Engineer), and Jude Ade Nwokenkwo (Mechanical Engineer). I created a vision system that used an ADHOC network to provide live video feed to connected clients
2016
Hybrid VR Experience
Independent Project (August 2015 - May 2016)
Project awarded grant by UIC Honors College with Dr. Mitchell Theys as project advisor. Developed VR application with Oculus Rift DK2 that recreated UIC's East Campus with 3D SketchUp mass models provided by the
Office of Facility and Space planning. Optimized models with 3DS Max then piped into Unreal Engine 4 and later Unity to visualize East Campus (provides scale and direction).
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MIPS Assembler and CPU
Independent Project (August 2016 - December 2016)
Developed a MIPS assembler that supports instructions (written in C) and Data Path (designed in Verilog) to take MIPS assembly and feed it into my custom designed CPU model. In class presentation was done explaining the creation process. Project was done under the guidance of Professor Paolo Vinella.