Kedar Tatwawadi

ML, Information Theory, Data Compression

prof_pic.png

Hello! I am a research engineer at Apple (Video Engineering). I like to work on problems at the intersection of computer vision, information theory and data compression.

Education

I did my undergrad from IIT Bombay, and my PhD from Stanford under the guidance of Prof. Tsachy Weissman. I worked at WaveOne inc, a startup working on ML-based compression before working at Apple.

I also served as an Adjunct Professor at Stanford while designing and teaching the course EE274: Data Compression.

Research

Although most of recent work is at industry and hence not public, you can take a look at some of my past work here:

  1. google scholar link
  2. github link

Software

Here are some softwares I helped write/create

  1. Stanford Compression Library: a simple python package designed for educational reasons, while teaching the EE274: Data Compressioncourse at Stanford.
  2. Spring compressor: A no-reference compressor for FASTQ genomic data.
  3. DeepZip: A somewhat old work which used RNNs for lossless compression.