I'm a second-year PhD student at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) at MIT, advised by Professors Fredo Durand and Jonathan Ragan-Kelley.
I graduated from UC San Diego in Spring 2025 with a B.S. in Computer Science (Honors with highest distinction) and a minor in Mathematics. There I did computer graphics research at the Center for Visual Computing, where I had the fortune of working with Professors Ravi Ramamoorthi and Tzu-Mao Li.
My research interests lie .
RCGP: Resource Contracts for Graphics Programming 
2026
Venkataram Sivaram, Sai Praveen Bangaru, Ravi Ramamoorthi, Tzu-Mao Li, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley, Frédo Durand
Modeling and Rendering Glow Discharge 2025
Venkataram Sivaram, Ravi Ramamoorthi, Tzu-Mao Li
Geometry Field Splatting with Gaussian Surfels 
2025
Kaiwen Jiang, Venkataram Sivaram, Cheng Peng, Ravi Ramamoorthi
Neural Geometry Fields for Meshes 2024
Venkataram Sivaram, Tzu-Mao Li, Ravi Ramamoorthi
Parameter-space ReSTIR for Differentiable and Inverse Rendering 2023
Wesley Chang, Venkataram Sivaram, Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Toshiya Hachisuka, Ravi Ramamoorthi, Tzu-Mao Li
Research Intern 
2026
Real-Time Rendering Group
3D Graphics Software Intern 2024–25
Slang Compiler Team
Teaching Assistant 
2024–25
CSE 167, Computer Graphics
Reviewer 2024–26
ACM SIGGRAPH · ACM SIGGRAPH Asia · ACM Transactions on Graphics
EECS Great Educators Fellowship 
2025
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award 
2025
Computing Research Association
CSE Undergraduate Student Award for Excellence in Research 2024
UC San Diego, CSE Department
Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award, Honorable Mention 2024
Computing Research Association
Projective Shape Metamorphosis With Optimal Transport 2025 Undergraduate Honors Thesis
TokenFormer: A Scalable Architecture For Transformers 2024 UC San Diego · LIGN 167
Mamba: A Global Illumination Solution for Diffuse and Specular Radiance 2023 UC San Diego · CSE 168
World Space Spatio-Temporal Reuse 2022 UC San Diego · CSE 294
