Hi, I am Bala! I am a 3rd year PhD student at the University of California, Berkeley. I am advised by professor Björn Hartmann. I completed my Bachelors at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. My Bachelors' thesis - "IoT enabled CNC Milling machine" won the best interdisciplinary thesis project amongst all engineering departments and the best thesis in Mechanical engineering.
My research interests are primarily in the domain of Virtual/Augmented reality. With AR/VR set to enter and modify out homes, cities, workspaces and daily lives in unimaginable ways, my research hopes to address the new challenges and problems that would arise in these scenarios. My research explores the applications and usages of AR/VR for a diverse set of activities, such as interacting with robots, creating art forms, 3D designing workflows, Augmented Reality teleoperative support for maintenance and Enhancing learning using AR/VR. You can also contact me at bala@eecs.berkeley.edu
Over the summer of 2020, I will be interning at Microsoft Research, mentored by Andy Wilson. In the past I have interned at Adobe Research (San Francisco) and Autodesk Research (Toronto), and have gotten a chance to work with amazing mentors and collaborators: Cuong Nguyen, Stephen DiVerdi, Fraser Anderson, Tovi Grossman, George Fitzmaurice.
My Publications
"Loki: Facilitating Remote Instruction of Physical Tasks Using Bi-Directional Mixed-Reality Telepresence" - PDF local link
Balasaravanan Thoravi Kumaravel, Fraser Anderson, George Fitzmaurice, Björn Hartmann, Tovi Grossman. 2019. Loki: Facilitating Remote Instruction of Physical Tasks Using Bi-Directional Mixed-Reality Telepresence.
In Proceedings of ACM Conference on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '19) DOI:
迅游资讯:《绝地求生》更新粉色兔子套装皮肤 -迅游网游加速器:2021年8月15日 - 《PUBG》官方发布了第4赛季第2轮公告内容,更新内容为游戏性优化、UI/UX改动、性能、皮肤、艾伦格改动,包括新增天气、可破坏障碍物等。 迅游网游加速器 - PDF local link
Balasaravanan Thoravi Kumaravel, Cuong Nguyen, Stephen DiVerdi, and Björn Hartmann. 2019. TutoriVR: A Video-Based Tutorial System for Design Applications in Virtual Reality.
In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '19).
DOI: http://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300514
"Development of an Internet of Things enabled Manufacturing system for tool wear characterization" - local ink
B. T. Kumaravel, R. Bhattacharyya, J. Siegel, S. E. Sarma and N. Arunachalam, "Development of an Internet of Things enabled manufacturing system for tool wear characterization," 2017 IEEE 3rd International Symposium in Robotics and Manufacturing Automation (ROMA), Kuala Lumpur, 2017, pp. 1-6.
DOI: http://doi.org/10.1109/ROMA.2017.8231733
"Speed vs efficiency and storage type in portable energy systems"
M. E. Kiziroglou, M. Cowell, B. T. Kumaravel, D. E. Boyle, J. W. Evans, P. K. Wright, and E. M. Yeatman
International Conference on Micro and Nanotechnology for Power Generation and Energy Conversion Applications (Power MEMS 2017)
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