Praneeth Chakravarthula

Praneeth Chakravarthula

Assistant Professor, Computer Science, UNC Chapel Hill on October 10, 2025 at 10:15 AM in EB2 1231
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Praneeth Chakravarthula is an assistant professor of computer science at UNC-Chapel Hill. His research focuses on the intersection of optics, perception, graphics, optimization and machine learning. He is a senior member of Optica and has received the IEEE VR Best Dissertation Award, the Timothy L. Quigg Inventor of the Year Award at UNC and several best paper and demo awards.

He completed postdoctoral research at Princeton University and earned his PhD in computer science from UNC-Chapel Hill. He also holds B.Tech. and M.Tech. degrees in electrical engineering with a specialization in signal processing from IIT Madras. His past research experience includes internships with Facebook Reality Labs, Microsoft Research Cambridge and NVIDIA Research, as well as visiting researcher positions with the Fluid Interfaces Group at the MIT Media Lab and the CoSMIC Lab at the National University of Singapore.

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