Amrita Mazumdar

We presented AI-Mediated 3D Videoconferencing, a SIGGRAPH Emerging Technologies Demo. Thanks to everyone who came to check it out!
August 2023
Served on Program Committees for PACT, IISWC, SIGCOMM EMS, and ISCA ASSYST, and I externally reviewed for SIGGRAPH Asia.
July 2023

I served on Program Committees for IISWC and YArch, and I externally reviewed for MICRO.
October 2022
I gave an invited talk at the first Workshop on Video Analytics, about Video Scrambling, an early vision of generative AI for compressed video storage.
May 2022

Our paper on TASM, a storage manager that enables spatial random access for video queries, will appear at ICDE 2021.
April 2021
I spoke at FastPath 2021 on our recent work on integrating learned features with video processing systems.
March 2021
I was featured in UW CoMotion's Researcher Spotlight.
March 2021

I spoke about Vignette at DubPitch Fall 2020.
November 2020
Vignette was accepted into the Jones+Foster Accelerator program!
July 2020
I began a UW CoMotion Postdoctoral Fellowship to investigate commercializing my research.
July 2020
I graduated!!! Thank you to my amazing committee, Luis, Mark, and Magda, for supervising me!!!
May 2020
I had a great time presenting at the first-ever virtual WACI session at ASPLOS.
March 2020

I presented our paper on Vignette, perceptual compression for cloud video storage at SoCC. The Vignette poster won the best poster award!
November 2019
I gave talks about Vignette at a number of fun venues: UCSC, !!con West (video), the UW Photomedia graduate seminar, GOMACTech, and Asilomar Microcomputer Workshop. Thank you to everyone for hosting me!
April 2019

I completed another great internship on the Graphics team at Facebook Reality Lab.
December 2018
LightDB, a database management system for VR video content, will appear at VLDB 2018. Check it out here!
June 2018
Our paper on codesigning a similarity search hardware accelerator with die-stacked memory will appear at IPDPS 2018 this month!
May 2018

The hardware-friendly bilateral solver won runner-up for the Madrona Prize!
November 2017
I presented our work on hardware-friendly bilateral solving at SRC TECHCON 2017.
September 2017
Our paper on in-camera processing pipelines will appear at IISWC 2017.
September 2017
I just finished a great summer internship at Oculus Research on the Graphics team!
September 2017
I had a lot of fun at the ACM Celebration of 50 Years of Turing Awards. Thanks to ACM SIGARCH for sending me.
June 2017
Our paper on real-time VR video acceleration will appear at High-Performance Graphics 2017!
June 2017
The third annual Women's Research Day was a great success! The UW Daily wrote a nice article about the event.
April 2017

I gave a talk and presented a poster on our work on in-camera processing pipelines at the UW CSE Industrial Affiliates meeting.
October 2016
I presented our work on in-camera processing pipelines at the UW PLSE Retreat.
September 2016
I attended ISCA 2016 in Seoul, and was a scribe for the Arch2030 workshop.
June 2016
I was on the program committee for the Grace Hopper Student Opportunity Lab.
May 2016
I passed my qualifying exam! I spoke about designing near-sensor face detection hardware for low-power cameras.
January 2016

I attended MICRO 48 in Hawaii!
December 2015
I presented a poster on our low-power face detection hardware design at the UW CSE Industrial Affiliates meeting.
October 2015
I attended ISCA 2015 in Portland.
June 2015

I attended the 2014 Grace Hopper Celebration for Women in Computing. I spoke at the ‘CRA-W: How to get accepted to Graduate School’ session.
October 2014
I attended ISCA 2014 in Minneapolis and the Google Scholars Retreat in Mountain View.
June 2014

Research Scientist, NVIDIA Research
PhD, University of Washington
Allen School for Computer Science