Plenum Technologies

Case Study

FARI - AI for the Common Good (Brussels)

Company Link: https://www.fari.brussels/

The aim of FARI is to enable, promote and perform excellent cross-disciplinary research on Artificial Intelligence in Brussels, inspired by the humanistic values of freedom, equality and solidarity that lay at the foundations of both the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), internationally acclaimed and with a local impact.

FARI CAVE: FARI CAVE (Computer Augmented Virtual Environment) infrastructure aims to enable FARI stakeholders, researchers, project managers and technical experts with 3D VR visualization of research and application projects, from ideation to MVP and to further project refinements.

Stacks:

Technical project management, VR development, storyboarding immersive experiences and deployment

Development pipeline management, version control

Weekly sprint tracking, planning and reviews, documentation, storage

MoveAhead - ADAPT/DCU (Dublin)

Company Link: https://moveahead.io/

MoveAhead brings together expertise in movement analysis, gamification and motion sensor technology to develop movement-based educational games and data collection activities to facilitate real change in movement behaviours. The project aims to support improvements in children’s skills through meaningful motility-based human-computer interactions.

MoveAhead is a new Start-Up from ADAPT and DCU that aims to address poor movement capabilities of Irish children as highlighted in recent studies (full study) conducted by DCU (School of Health and Human Performance) and INSIGHT.

Stacks:

Game development, GUI, particle effects and AR visualisation

Python, integration with Unity5, performance evaluation of models, movement evaluation

Development and Deployment

Development pipeline management, version control

Weekly sprint tracking, planning and reviews, documentation, storage

V-SENSE EU Horizon 2020 (Dublin)

Company Link: https://v-sense.scss.tcd.ie/

SAUCE is a three-year EU Research and Innovation project between Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Foundry, DNEG, Brno University of Technology, Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, Saarland University, Trinity College Dublin, Disney Research to create a step-change in allowing creative industry companies to re-use existing digital assets for future productions.

Crowd Scene Synthesis: Research and development of a crowd population asset that can be retargeted to semantically similar environment. Use of semantic description of assets and understand the relationship, context, distribution and behaviour of crowd agents.

Stacks:

Scene Development and Crowd simulation visualization, toolset/asset development

Photo, video editing and texture compression

Weekly sprint tracking, planning and reviews, documentation, storage

Version control

PetAR Simulator - A virtual pet at home! (Personal)

Project Link: https://tinyurl.com/petARSim

Taking care of a virtual dog with best of affection and love, visualised through ARCore for full immersion. Consisting of three dogs to choose from, feed the dog, give it water, a nice home for it to sleep in and give commands for it to follow!

Features include:
– AR game programming
– GUI development for app navigation and gameplay
– Custom animation, textures and materials

Stacks:

Game development and GUI

AR development

Texturing and material development

Little Things - A short Unity5 movie (Personal)

Project Link: https://tinyurl.com/littlethingsshort

Demonstration of concepts of forward and inverse kinematics, principles of animations, camera timeline construction through a short film, conveying a deeper message. Use of manual intervention for control of scene and exploration of visual capabilities with freedom of level design and game programming.

Features include:
– Level design, Lighting, Unity Timeline animations, Game programming
– Post-Processing: Ambient Occlusion, Color-grading, HDR, Vignette, Depth of Field, Screen Space Reflections
– Use of volumetric lighting
– Texturing and material creation

Stacks:

Level design, scripting and animations

Texturing and material development

League of Legends and Unity Chan - AR (Personal)

Project Link: https://tinyurl.com/lolarunity

Implementation of Unity5 and use of Vuforia as a learning step for game development. A simple level design project consisting of levels with environments and animated characters projected using Vuforia’s marker-based system of AR. An all-around project based on characters from League of Legends, the well-renowned MOBA.

Features include:
– Level design, animations, particle systems
– GUI: Scale, translation and rotation of scene
– Sound editing and timing sequences
– Custom textures and materials

Stacks:

Level design, scripting and animations

Marker-based AR

Texturing and material development

Biplob Bora

PARTNER & CHIEF REVENUE OFFICER​​

Biplob Bora is a visionary leader with a proven track record of driving innovation and growth in the technology industry for over 18 years. With a passion for transforming ideas into reality, Biplob has successfully led numerous teams in delivering cutting-edge solutions to complex problems. His strong leadership skills and strategic mindset have consistently positioned him as a driving force in the industry.

Throughout his career, Biplob has developed and implemented effective Business strategies, built strong customer relationships, and managed robust sales pipelines. His strategic planning skills have been instrumental in identifying opportunities for growth and executing initiatives to capitalize on them.

Biplob has also co-founded TheMadeonEarth, a leading retail brand in the region. Biplob has previously worked with Companies like Wipro, HCL, NTT before taking on the charge to lead the growth of Plenum Technologies. As a Partner & Chief Revenue Office, Biplob is building the growth story of Plenum Technologies.

Biplob Holds a Masters in Business Administration from International Management Institute, Belgium and a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering and Computer Science Technology from Anna University , Chennai, India

Outside of his professional endeavours, Biplob is an ex Junior International Cricketer for India and enjoys staying physically active and can often be found exploring road cycling across UAE. He is also a volunteer for many sports and charity related organization across UAE and India. Biplob is also a mentor to several start-ups across the region.