Sharva Hiremath is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NC State and a member of the EnBiSys Lab. He received a B.S. in Electronics & Communication Engineering from Manipal Institute of Technology (India), and a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from NC State. Sharva's research uses computer vision and image processing techniques to quantify spatiotemporal gene expression in Drosophila and uses this to builds predictive models for this process.