Shishir Gopinath

I'm a PhD Student at Simon Fraser University's School of Computing Science with research interests spanning systems, computer vision, robotics, and graphics. My recent work focuses on GPU acceleration for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). I am supervised by Dr. Steven Ko.

Recent Publications →

FastLoop: Parallel Loop Closing with GPU-Acceleration in Visual SLAM

Soudabeh Mohammadhashemi, Shishir Gopinath, Kimia Khabiri, Parsa Hosseininejad, Karthik Dantu, Steven Y. Ko

arXiv | 2026
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Graphite: A GPU-Accelerated Mixed-Precision Graph Optimization Framework

Shishir Gopinath, Karthik Dantu, Steven Y. Ko

ICRA | 2026
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TurboMap: GPU-Accelerated Local Mapping for Visual SLAM

Parsa Hosseininejad, Kimia Khabiri, Shishir Gopinath, Soudabeh Mohammadhashemi, Karthik Dantu, Steven Y. Ko

arXiv | 2025
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Recent Projects →

Real-Time Vulkan Path Tracer


Chip-8 Interpreter


Voxel Game Engine Prototype