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, Graduate course on Expressive Agents, University of Florida, 2023.
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 for Computer Vision and Image Understanding journal. (2024)
⋄ Reviewer for Frontiers in Virtual Reality journal. (2024)
⋄ Reviewer for ACM Symposium on Applied Perception (SAP). (2024)
⋄ Reviewer for IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (IEEE VR). (2023)
⋄ Reviewer for Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT). (2023)
⋄ Reviewer for ACM Transactions on Applied Perception (TAP). (2023)
⋄ Reviewer for Computers and Graphics (CAG) journal. (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 Privacy in eXtended Reality (PrXR) workshop at IEEE VR. (2021)

Invited Talks

⋄ Privacy-Preserving Gaze Data Streaming in Immersive Interactive Virtual Reality: Robustness and User Experience (Spring 2024)
- Conference presentation (talk) at 2024 IEEE Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR) session on Ethics in VR.

⋄ Extending Facial Identity Perturbation to Video: Naturalness with Guaranteed Privacy (Fall 2023)
- Dissertation proposal defense at University of Florida.

⋄ Protecting User Eye Movements in Virtual Reality (Fall 2023)
- Invited demonstration representing the Florida Institute of Cybersecurity (FICS) at the University of Florida Malachowsky Hall ribbon cutting ceremony.

⋄ Introducing Explicit Gaze Constraints to Face Swapping (Summer 2023)
- Conference presentation at 2023 ACM Symposium of Eye Tracking Research and Applications (ETRA).

⋄ Face Swapping and Facial Privacy (Spring 2023)
- Guest Lecture in Human-Computer Interaction at University of Florida.

⋄ Personal Space Bubbles for Safety and Performance (Summer 2023)
- Conference presentation (poster) at 2023 IEEE Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR). Presented at satellite event hosted by Virginia Tech.

⋄ Development of Design of Experiments (Spring 2023)
- Guest lecture in Research Methods for Human-centered Computing at University of Florida.

⋄ Face Swapping as a Privacy Mechanism (Summer 2022)
- Guest lecture in Human-Computer Interaction at University of Florida.

⋄ The Uncanniness of Face Swaps (Summer 2022)
- Conference presentation (poster) at 22nd Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS).

⋄ An Introduction to the Metaverse (Spring 2022)
- Guest lecture in Legal Environment of Business at Berry College.