Praneeth Chakravarthula is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC Chapel Hill), specializing in the interdisciplinary fields of optics, perception, graphics, optimization and machine learning. He is a Senior Member of Optica, recipient of IEEE VR Best Dissertation Award, Timothy L. Quigg Inventor of the Year at UNC, and several Best Paper and Demo Awards. Prior to joining UNC, Praneeth conducted postdoctoral research at Princeton University, earned his PhD from UNC, and received his B.Tech and M.Tech degrees in Electrical Engineering from IIT Madras.