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Anand Kulkarni
University of California, Berkeley

I am a young mathematician and scientist in the PhD program at the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at UC Berkeley. My work is supported by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.

You can contact me at anandk [at] berkeley.edu.

Research Themes

Polytope combinatorics and theoretical computer science
Crowdsourcing and human computation; applications in telerobotics
Information technology for rural development

Selected Projects

The polynomial Hirsch conjecture
Wirelessly controlled physical avatars
Telesigner: Online signatures for legal electronic voting
iCare: P2P charity for disaster relief
The art gallery problem with mirrors

Papers

Kulkarni, A., Koranne, S. "Path preservation in polytopes during dual bistellar flips." In progress.
Koranne, S, Kulkarni, A. "On enumeration of simple polytopes." In progress.
Arvind, DK., Kulkarni, A. "Adaptive Mesh Architectures for Speckled Robots." Workshop on Cyber-physical Systems, 2007
Lee, B., Kulkarni, A. "Collaborative Observatories for Field Biology." 2008 International Conference on Interactive User Experiences for TV and Video.
Kulkarni, A., Koranne, S. "The Gemcutting Approach to the Hirsch Conjecture (and other open problems on polytopal graphs)." 2009 Fall Workshop on Computational Geometry.
Schiff, A. Kulkarni, D. Bazo, V. Duindam, R. Alterovitz, D. Song, and K. Goldberg, "Actuator networks for navigating an unmonitored mobile robot," in Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE 2008), Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press, 2008, pp. 53-60.
Kulkarni, A. "Neural network-based system and methods for performing optical proximity correction." Patent pending, September 2007.
Kulkarni, A. "Empirical OPC analysis for rapid RET application." Proceedings of SPIE, Volume 6349. Photomask Technology 2006.
Kulkarni, A., Grebinski, T. "gmTest: An industry standardized database of VLSI design files." IEEE Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design, 2006.
Kulkarni, A., Grebinski, T. "A method for partial selective encryption of VLSI design files in OASIS." IEEE Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design, 2006.
Bitton, E., Kulkarni, A., Shlimovich, M. “Two Tools for Tollbooth Traffic Analysis.” UMAP Journal 26.3. Outstanding paper award, 2005 Mathematical Contest in Modeling. Winner, Ben Fusaro Prize.

Posters

Kulkarni, A. "A Gemcutting Approach towards Fast Simplex Variants." INFORMS, 2009.
Large-Scale Polytope Diameter Experiments on the Cell CBE: Towards a Resolution to Hirsch's Conjecture. Refereed poster, SIAM Workshop on Combinatorial and Scientific Computing, 2007.
Dynamic Speck-Guided Balance and Control of a Humanoid Telerobot. EU-US Workshop on Wirelessly Networked Embedded Systems, 2007.
"Speckled Telerobotics." 6th Workshop on Speckled Computing, 2007.
"Applied Speck-Robot Systems." 6th Workshop on Speckled Computing, 2007.

Awards

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
iCare: Greatest Social Impact Award, 2006 Technology Breakthrough Competition, UC Berkeley Center for Entrepreneurship and
Technology
Bears Breaking Boundaries: Curriculum Innovation Award
Outstanding winner, 2005 Mathematical Contest in Modeling; Ben Fusaro Prize
Finalist, 2005 Stanford-UC Berkeley Vertex Innovator’s Challenge
National merit scholar, 2001

Undergraduate Projects

The neural basis of touch and pressure, Summer 2004, Chapin Lab at SUNY Downstate
Pattern recognition for automated identification of supernovae in optical images, Spring 2003-Spring 2004, Supernova Cosmology Group @ LBL
An EEG-based natural language brain-computer interface, Fall 2003-Spring 2004, Independent student group

Contact
anandk [at] berkeley.edu

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