Teaching & Service

Teaching

Generating Expressiveness in Intelligent Agents and Avatars

I taught CAP4112: Generating Expressiveness in Intelligent Agents and Avatars alongside Dr. Eakta Jain in Fall of 2022. Together, we developed a curriculum and collaborated on lectures that were given on a rotational schedule. I developed all homework assignments from the ground up using python and Blender3D. Students learned to programmatically animate shapes and 3D meshes to represent emotions and create visual stories. In the third assignment, students integrated with a deep learning model in real-time to drive animations of a 2.5D character.

Some exemplars of student submissions can be seen below:

Using shapes and colors to represent a beekeeper trying to get honey, being swarmed, then using bee smoke to hide and reach the hive.

Combining many blendshapes on a 3D mesh to recreate the scene from Killmonger's monologue in Black Panther.

Using live webcam feedback, the robot character is animated based on the student's current expression.

Using shapes and colors to represent a Krishna Janmashtami festival where people must cooperate and build towers to reach a hanging pot of trasures.

Combining many blendshapes on a 3D mesh to recreate the scene from the Shining.

Using live webcam feedback, the robot character is animated based on the student's current expression.

Additional Teaching Experience

Teaching assistant, Computer Graphics, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019.
Teaching assistant, Intro to Computing for Engineers, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-2018 (3 semesters).

Service

Reviewer: IEEE VR 2023
Volunteer for Symposium on Applied Perception (SAP) 2021
- Created a virtual replica of Rennes, France in Mozilla Hubs to act as an online meeting place for virtual participants and poster presentations.
Volunteer for PrXR workshop at IEEE VR 2021

Invited Talks

"Face Swapping & Facial Privacy". Guest lecture for Human Computer Interaction. University of Florida, College of Engineering. (Spring 2023)

"Development of Design of Experiments". Guest lecture for Research Methods for Human-centered Computing. University of Florida, College of Engineering. (Spring 2023)

"Face Swapping as a Privacy Mechanism". Guest lecture for Human Computer Interaction. University of Florida, College of Engineering. (Summer 2022)

“An Introduction to the Metaverse”. Guest lecture for Legal Environment of Business. Berry College. (March 2022)