Imaging science Ph.D. student to speak at RIT academic convocation

Siddharth Khullar selected as College of Science delegate and graduate speaker

A. Sue Weisler

Siddharth Khullar will be the graduate speaker at the RIT academic convocation and the College of Science graduate delegate. Stefi Baum, director of the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science, has been a mentor through Khullar’s doctoral studies.

Khullar, originally from New Delhi, India, embraces the concept of risk as part of an education. Chance and opportunity has led to the Ph.D. he will receive this May from RIT’s Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science. He was named the College of Science graduate delegate and will share his insights as the graduate speaker at the RIT academic convocation.

Momentum from a string of positive research experiences has positioned Khullar to stretch his imagination as an employee at one of the world’s most famous corporations. Earlier this year, he knocked on the window of his dream job at Microsoft and the window opened wide.

Khullar joined Microsoft’s Computational User Experiences group in January as a post-doctoral researcher. The team applies machine learning, visualization, mobile computing, sensors and devices to advance human-computer interaction, health care, home technologies and computer-assisted creativity. He worked closely with the same group during an internship last summer. (more)http://www.rit.edu/news/story.php?id=50017&source=enewsletter