NARENDRA KUMAR VADAPALLI

AI LEADER • VISUAL DESIGN ENTHUSIAST

A software engineer with a balanced left and right brain, specializing in pipeline development, DevOps, graphics tools, and site reliability.

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Credits in Media

Following are the entertainment / media projects I contributed technically

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Graduation work

Projects from my Masters program in Computer Graphics and Game Technology at University of Pennsylvania

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Latest Blog Posts

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Sep 2, 2026

The 3D Gaussian Splatting Revolution: Real-Time Differentiable Primitives

Explore the 3D Gaussian Splatting revolution: explicit covariance parameterization, Spherical Harmonics, GPU tile rasterization, and 100+ FPS rendering.

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Sep 1, 2026

Accelerating Implicit Fields: Instant-NGP & Multiresolution Hash Grids

Discover how Instant-NGP eliminated NeRF's rendering latency by pairing hierarchical multiresolution spatial hash tables with tiny fully-fused CUDA MLPs.

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Aug 31, 2026

Demystifying NeRFs: Volumetric Rendering & Implicit Coordinate Networks

Explore the mechanics of Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs), from 5D continuous coordinate networks and positional encodings to numerical volumetric quadrature.

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