Hello, welcome to my home page! I am a Post-Doctoral Research Associate in theDepartment of Computer Science at the University of Iowa focusing on research in the areas of Perception and Cognition in Virtual Environments, and Virtual Humans/Embodied Conversational Agents.  I have also done work in the use of Virtual Reality in the therapy of Balance Disorders, Travel techniques in Virtual Environments, 3D Interaction, Computer Vision, and Visualization.  You can find me working on various projects in theHank Virtual Environments Lab.  My hobbies include Badminton, Hiking, Swimming and near-eastern History.

Before joining the University of Iowa, I completed my PhD in theDepartment of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte under the supervision ofDr. Larry F. Hodges.  My Dissertation title was Inter-Personal Social Conversation in Multimodal Human-Virtual Human Interaction.

Links: [CV] [Research Statement] [Teaching Statement] [Publications]

      CV

      Publications

      Teaching:

            Spring 2008: 22C:196:002 Special Topics in Computer Science

                              Virtual Environments and Embodied Conversational Agents

            Spring 2007:Algorithms and Problem Solving in C++ ITCS-1214

     Research: 

              Can Immersive Virtual Humans Teach Social Conversational Protocols?

             Virtual Human Interfaces/Embodied Agents

             Recovery and Visualization of 3D Structure of Chromosomes

             Effects of Travel Technique on Cognition in Virtual Environments

            Virtual Reality in Medical Therapy

      In the News: Competitive Badminton

     My Previous Web Page while I was doing my Masters:HERE

Last Updated: Jan 10, 2008