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SATYA PRAKASH MALLICK
3827 Miramar St. Apt C
La Jolla, CA 92037
http://graphics.ucsd.edu/~spmallick
Phone (858) 692-0238
Fax (858) 534-7029
spmallick@graphics.ucsd.edu
Education
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
La Jolla, CA
Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2006.
Research Areas: Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Machine Learning.
Advisors: David Kriegman and Nuno Vasconcelos.
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
La Jolla, CA
Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2004.
Research Areas: Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Machine Learning.
Advisors: David Kriegman and Nuno Vasconcelos.
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Kharagpur, India
Bachelor of Technology ( Honors ) in Electrical Engineering, 2001.
Research
VISION & GRAPHICS LAB, U.C. SAN DIEGO
La Jolla, CA
January 2003 - present.
Graduate Student Researcher, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
KRIEGMAN BELHUMEUR VISION TECHNOLOGIES
La Jolla, CA
July 2006 - September 2006.
Research Intern.
THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
La Jolla, CA
June 2004 - September 2004 and June 2005 - September 2005.
Research Intern.
COMPUTER VISION AND ROBOTICS RESEARCH LAB,
U.C. SAN DIEGO
La Jolla, CA
September 2001 - December 2002.
Graduate Student Researcher, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Honors
Best Paper Award, UCSD Research Review, 2004.
UCSD Departmental Fellowship, 2001-2002.
Ranked 17
th
, Higher Secondary Examination, State of Orissa, India, 1997.
Certificate of Merit, National Standard Examination in Physics, India, 1997.
Certificate of Merit, National Standard Examination in Physics, India, 1996.
National Talent Search (NTS) Scholarship, India, 1995-2001.
Talks
"Object Detection in Cryo-Electron Microscopy", Machine Learning and the Life Sciences,
Intel, Berkeley, CA, October 2003.
"Detecting Particles in Cryoelectron Micrographs: Lessons from Computer Vision and Pat-
tern Recognition", Multidisciplinary Workshop on Automatic Particle Selection for Cryo-
electron Microscopy, The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), La Jolla, CA, April 2003.
"Dichromatic Separation: Specularity Removal & Editing", SIGGRAPH, Boston, MA,
July-August 2006.
Services
Reviewer for Journal of Structural Biology, IEEE International Conference on Computer
Vision, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.

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Teaching
Teaching assistant for Computer Vision II (CSE 252B), Spring 2006, UCSD.
Journal Articles
T. Zickler, S. P. Mallick, D. J. Kriegman, and P. N. Belhumeur, "Color Subspaces as
Photometric Invariants", submitted to International Journal of Computer Vision.
S. M. Stagg, G. C. Lander, J. Pulokas, D. Fellmann, A. Cheng, J. D. Quispe, S. P. Mallick,
R. M. Avila, B. Carragher, and C. S. Potter, "Automated cryoEM data acquisition and
analysis of 284,742 particles of GroEL", Journal of Structural Biology, Volume 155, Issue
3, September 2006, Pages 470-481.
S. P. Mallick, B. Carragher, C. S. Potter, and D. J. Kriegman, "ACE: Automated CTF
Estimation", Ultramicroscopy, Volume 104, Issue 1, August 2005, Pages 8-29.
S. P. Mallick, Y. Zhu, and D. Kriegman, "Detecting Particles in cryo-EM micrographs
using learned features", Journal of Structural Biology, Volume 145, Issues 1-2, January
2004, Pages 52-62. (The paper earned the cover of this issue).
Y. Zhu, B. Carragher, R. M. Glaeser, D. Fellmann, C. Bajaj, M. Bern, F. Mouche, F.
Haas, R. J. Hall, D. Kriegman, S. J. Ludtke, S. P. Mallick, P. Penczeki, A. Roseman,
F. Sigworth, N. Volkmann, and C. Potter, "Automatic particle selection: results of a
comparative study", Journal of Structural Biology , Volume 145, Issues 1-2, January 2004,
Pages 3-14.
Conference Papers
S. P. Mallick, S. Agarwal, D. Kriegman, S. Belongie, C. Potter, and B. Carragher, "Vision
in the Small: Reconstructing the Structure of Protein Macromolecules from Cryo-Electron
Micrographs", British Machine Vision Conference, Volume I, Pages 1-6, September 2006,
Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
T. Zickler, S. P. Mallick, D. J. Kriegman, and P. N. Belhumeur, "Color Subspaces as
Photometric Invariants", IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
(CVPR), Volume II, Pages 2000-2010, June 2006, New York.
S. P. Mallick, S. Agarwal, D. Kriegman, S. Belongie, C. Potter, and B. Carragher, "Struc-
ture and View Estimation for Tomographic Reconstruction: A Bayesian Approach", IEEE
Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Volume II, Pages 2253-
2260, June 2006, New York.
S. P. Mallick, T. E. Zickler, P. N. Belhumeur, and D. J. Kriegman, "Specularity Removal
in Images and Videos: A PDE approach", European Conference on Computer Vision
(ECCV), Volume I, Pages 550-563, May 2006, Graz, Austria.
S. P. Mallick, T. E. Zickler, D. J. Kriegman, and P. N. Belhumeur, "Beyond Lambert:
Reconstructing Specular Surfaces Using Color", IEEE Conference on Computer Vision
and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Volume II, Pages 619-626, 2005, San Diego, California.
S. Agarwal, S. P. Mallick, D. J. Kriegman, and S. J. Belongie, "On Refractive Optical
Flow", European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Part II, Pages 483-494, 2004,
Prague, Czech Republic.
S. P. Mallick and M. M. Trivedi, "Parametric Face Modeling and Affect Synthesis", Interna-
tional Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), Pages 225-228, July 2003, Baltimore,
Maryland.
J. McCall, S. P. Mallick, and M. M. Trivedi, "Real-Time Driver Affect Analysis and Tele-
viewing System", IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), Pages 372-377, June 2003,
Columbus, Ohio.

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Sketches
S. P. Mallick, T. Zickler, P. N. Belhumeur, and D. J. Kriegman. "Dichromatic Separation:
Specularity Removal and Editiing", to appear in SIGGRAPH, July-Aug 2006, Boston.
Patents
S. P. Mallick, T. E. Zickler, D. J. Kriegman, and P. N. Belhumeur, "A Novel Color Space
Transformation for Computer Vision Algorithms And A Method for Separating and Editing
the Diffuse and Glossy Components of Images and Videos", Provisional Patent SD2005-
260, 2005.
Software
Developed Automated CTF Estimation (ACE) - A software for automatically estimating
the parameters of the contrast transfer function of an electron microscope using acquired
images.
Skills
Programming Languages: C/C++, Java, MATLAB, OpenGL, Cg.
Operating Systems: Windows, Linux/Unix.
Last update: Dec 12, 2006.