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Contact
E540 CSE Building University of Florida Phone: 352-294-6653 Fax: 352-273-0738 ejain@cise.ufl.eduMailing Address P.O. Box 116120 Gainesville, FL 32611
Address for Packages: 432 Newell Dr. Building 42 Room 301 University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611
Eakta Jain Associate Professor, CISE, University of Florida (Courtesy Appointment ECE, University of Florida)
Awards / Funding
USDOT Inclusive Design Challenge "Optimizing Highly Automated Driving Systems for People with Cognitive Disabilities" (2021-2022)
NIH R21 "Protecting the privacy of the child through facial identity removal in recorded behavioral observation sessions" (2020-2022)
NSF FW-HTF-P: Advancing the future work of nuclear operators through virtual reality-based training (2020-2021)
UFII Seed Fund Award "Assessing Political Representation Using Neural Networks" (2020)
UFII Seed Fund Award "Adapting In-Store Theft Prevention Technology to Detect Malicious Coughing and Product Tampering" (2020)
Florida Department of Transportation "l-STREET lnitiative - Evaluation of lntelligent School Zone Beacon and Vehicle-Cyclist Detection and Warning System" (2018-2020)
Reviewer: ACM SIGGRAPH, Eurographics, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
Outreach: Presenter at the 2014 Art in Engineering Museum Night at the UF Harn Museum of Art
2009 - 2012
Reviewer: ACM Transactions on Graphics (2012), ACM SIGGRAPH Asia (2012), ACM SIGGRAPH (2011)
Outreach: Fusion Forum, A recruitment event for under-represented minorities (2011, 2009)
News
June 23 2022: Brendan successfully defends his PhD dissertation! Congratulations Dr. David-John!
May 31 2022: Ethan passes his Qualifying exam! Congrats Ethan!
Apr 29 2022: Undergrad Garrick Sewsankar graduates with a Bachelors in Computer Science and Engineering Certificate in Artificial Intelligence. Congrats Garrick!
Apr 20 2022: Ethan presented "An Introduction to the Metaverse" as a guest lecture for the Legal Environment of Business course at Berry College.
Apr 14 2022: Brendan presented "AI for Human-Computer Interaction & Implications of Personalization on Privacy" at the UF Mini-Symposia Series: AI and Interactions with Society, organized by Dr. Amelia Winger-Bearskin and the UF Informatics Institute.
Apr 8 2022: Brendan presented "Eye-Tracking Applications: Pupillary Light Reflex & Intent to Interact” as a guest lecture in Eye-based Human Computer Interaction course at University of Tübingen taught by Dr. Thomas Kübler.
Mar 24 2022: Ethan presented "An Introduction to the Metaverse" to the Gator TeamChild Juvenile Law Clinic at the University of Florida Levin College of Law.
Mar 10 2022: Karina LaRubbio is selected to receive an IEEE VR 2022 Bridge to VR Scholarship. Congrats Karina on being selected once again after receiving the scholarship in 2021!
Mar 10 2022: Brendan is selected to receive an IEEE VR 2022 Diversity Scholarship Award. Congrats Brendan!
Feb 21 2022: Brendan presented "Providing Privacy for Eye-Tracking Data with Applications in XR" at the Spring 2022 Cornell Bowers CIS Computer Science Colloquium Series.
Feb 7 2022:"The Uncanniness of Face Swaps" accepted to Vision Sciences Society VSS 2022. Congratulations Ethan, Aidan, and Nick!.
Jan 31 2022: Karina LaRubbio's REU project "Who do you look like? - Gaze-based authentication for workers in VR" is conditionally accepted as a poster to IEEE VR. Congratulations Karina, Jeremiah, and graduate mentor Brendan!.
Jan 20 2022: Brendan presented "Providing Privacy for Eye-Tracking Data with Applications in XR" at the Virginia Tech Computer Science Spring 2022 Seminar Series.
Oct 15 2021: Brendan successfully defends his thesis proposal, "For Your Eyes Only: Providing Privacy for Eye-Tracking Datasets with Applications in XR". Congrats Brendan!
Sept 1 2021: Dr. Jain joins SIGGRAPH 2021 Technical Papers Chair Sylvain Paris, Chris Bregler (sr. staff scientist, Google AI), and Matthias Nießner (professor, TU München) for a SIGGRAPH Spotlight discussion on deep fakes and implications.
Aug 5 2021: Yuzhu Dong accepts a position as Research Engineer at Google DeepMind. Congratulations Yuzhu!
May 26 2021: Srividya Surampudi, an alumna in Jain Lab, accepted a position as a software engineer at Apple. Congrats Srividya!
Apr 26 2021: Song Li is on his way to pursue a Masters degree at Johns Hopkins University. Song did his senior project at Jain Lab in Fall 2020 on Residual Attention Networks for recognizing illustrations. Congratulations Song!
Apr 1 2021: "A Privacy-Preserving Approach to Streaming Eye-Tracking Data" is nominated for Best Paper Award at IEEE VR 2021.
Mar 29 2021:Brendan is selected to receive a L3Harris Corporation Communication Graduate Fellowship. Congrats Brendan!
Mar 22 2021:Brendan presented "Locking Eyes" at the Montana State University Gianforte School of Computing Weekly Seminar, hosted by Dr. Sean Yaw.
Mar 10 2021:Dr. Jain presents at Human factors research at UFTI: Current Research and Future Directions, STRIDE Webinar.
Jan 21 2021:The PrXR workshop submission deadline has been extended to Jan. 26, 2021.
Jan 15 2021:Dr. Jain presents "Locking Eyes" at an invited seminar for the UCR Computer Science & Engineering Colloquium, hosted by Dr. Tamar Shinar.
Dec 19 2020:Yuzhu Dong graduates with a PhD in Human-Centered Computing. Congratulations Yuzhu!
Nov 6 2020:Dr. Jain is a panelist for the CISE Virtual Junior Preview panel organized by Dr. McMullen and the CISE Graduate Recruitment Committee.
Nov 2 2020:Dr. Jain presents "Locking Eyes" at the Facebook Reality Labs: Research seminar, hosted by Dr. Tanya Jonker.
Oct 19 2020:Ethan Wilson is selected as a 2020-2021 Generation Next Scholar. Congrats Ethan!
Oct 17 2020:Brendan is recognized as first place winner of the the Graduate Student Oral Research Presentation Competition at 2020 AISES National Conference for "The Security-Utility Trade-off for Iris Authentication and Eye Animation for Social Virtual Avatars". Congrats Brendan!
Oct 17 2020:Yuzhu Dong presents "Adult2child: Motion Style Transfer using CycleGANs" at MIG2020. Congratulations Yuzhu!
Sept 3 2020: Dr. Jain presents "User Security and Privacy in Pursuit of Compelling Virtual Avatars" at CMU Graphics Seminar.
Aug 17 2020: Heting Wang and Ethan Wilson join the lab as PhD students. Welcome!
Aug 14 2020: Dr. Jain is an invited participant at the Workshop on AI, Humanities and Pedagogy at Arizona State University, organized by Drs. Suren Jayasuriya, Ed Finn and Joey Eschrich.
Aug 12 2020: Dr. Jain presents "User Security and Privacy in Pursuit of Compelling Virtual Avatars" at MIT Graphics Seminar.
June 4 2020: Dr. Jain presents "User Security and Privacy in Pursuit of Compelling Virtual Avatars" at Stanford G-cafe seminar.
Apr 27 2020: Report on the 2019 Industry-Academia summit on Mixed Reality Security, Privacy and Safety is now available.
Apr 9 2020: Brendan presents "The Security-Utility Trade-off for Iris Authentication and Eye Animation for Social Virtual Avatars" at the 2020 Southeast SACNAS Regional Meeting, hosted by UF.
Apr 6 2020: Yuzhu is selected to receive a Gartner Group Graduate Fellowship. Congrats Yuzhu!
Apr 6 2020: Brendan is selected to receive a Harris Corporation Communication Graduate Fellowship. Congrats Brendan!
Mar 24 2020: Brendan is selected to receive an IEEE VR 2020 Diversity Scholarship Award. Congrats Brendan!
Mar 6 2020: Dr. Jain presents "Security and Privacy in Pursuit of Compelling Virtual Avatars" at the University of Minnesota
Mar 4 2020: Dr. Jain presents "Security and Privacy in Pursuit of Compelling Virtual Avatars" at an invited seminar hosted by the Department of Computer Science, RIT MAGIC Center, School of Interactive Games and Media, and Program of Computer Science at Rochester Institute of Technology
Feb 12 2020: Brendan presents "The Security-Utility Trade-off for Iris Authentication and Eye Animation for Social Virtual Avatars" at the Syracuse EECS CASE Colloquim Series.
Jan 10 2020: Dr. Jain presents "Challenges and Opportunities in Mixed Reality and Eye Tracking" to international Korean student group from Florida International College, hosted by Dr. Y.K. Yoon (ECE).
Oct 12 2019: Brendan is recognized as honorable mention for the Graduate Student Oral Research Presentation Competition at 2019 AISES National Conference for "An Evaluation of Pupillary Light Response Models for 2D screens and VR HMDs". Congrats Brendan!
Oct 10 2019: Brendan presents "An Evaluation of Pupillary Light Response Models for 2D Screens and VR HMDs" at the 2019 AISES National Conference.
Oct 1 2019: Brendan is accepted as a scholar in the NSF funded 2019 AISES Lighting the Pathway to Faculty Careers for Natives in STEM cohort. Congratulations Brendan!
Sep 5 2019: Pallavi accepted a position at Walmart Labs. Congratulations Pallavi!
Aug 22 2019: Dr. Jain named a technical program chair for ETRA 2020 along with Prof. Daniel Weiskopf and Prof. Ralph Radach.
30 July 2019: Yuzhu Dong presents "Perception based Algorithms for Creating Realistic Animations" at the SIGGRAPH 2019 Thesis Fast Forward
6 June 2019: "The Impact of Visual and Audio Alerts on Driving Behavior and Exploring Visual Attention through Eye Tracking” at the Exploring Transportation and STEM: From the Community to the Classroom K-12 outreach event sponsored by the University of Florida Transportation Institute.
27 Feb 2019: Dr Jain presents "Creating Virtual Avatars for Young Children" at the University of Florida Developmental Psychology Seminar.
29 Jan 2019: Tutorial proposal at IEEE VR 2019 on eye-tracking was accepted. Join us in Osaka on March 23rd.
12 Dec 2018: Brendan John presents paper "A Benchmark of Four Methods for Generating 360 Saliency Maps from Eye Tracking Data" at AIVR 2018 in Taichung, Taiwan.
30 Nov 2018: Brendan John and Pallavi Raiturkar present their paper "An Evaluation of Pupillary Light Response Models for 2D Screens and VR HMDs" at VRST 2018 in Tokyo, Japan.
29 Nov 2018: Dr. Jain is a discussion leader at the TEDxUF Salon event on Smart Art.
12 Nov 2018: Dr. Jain presents invited talk “Perceptual Cues for Social Platforms” at Google. Google Tech Talk link coming soon.
8 Nov 2018: Dr. Jain presents invited talk “Heads, shoulders, knees, and toes…and eyes” at the IVESG seminar at UC Irvine.
31 Oct 2018: Brendan John presents research poster at the annual Graduate Diversity Research Symposium at University of Florida.
5 Oct 2018: Dr Jain presents invited talk "Generating Compelling Characters for Child Users" at the School of Computing seminar at Clemson University.
21 June 2018: Dr Jain presents invited talk "The role of gaze and pupil diameter in understanding audience engagement" at MPI Informatik at Saarbrucken.
17 June 2018: Dr Jain participates in Dagstuhl seminar 18252 "Ubiquitous Gaze Sensing and Interaction"
15 Feb 2018: Dr Jain gives an invited seminar talk "Measuring viewer priorities in naturalistic settings" at the University of Florida Institute of Transportation Engineers Student Chapter
21 Nov 2017:Dr Jain presents the group's latest results on child-like characters "Adult2Child:
Dynamic Scaling Laws to Create Child-like Motion" at FIEA, UCF, Orlando, hosted by Ron Weaver.
23 - 24 October 2017 Dr. Jain will present the group's research at the CCC Computing Research Symposium at Washington DC on Oct 23-24. This gathering brings together researchers to imagine, discuss, and debate the future of computing and its role in addressing societal needs. The agenda is available here and the livestream is available here.
20 July 2017 Paper on 'Adult2Child: Modifying mocap data from adults to be child-like' to be presented at 2017 Motion In Games. Congratulations Yuzhu! See project page here.
13 July 2017 Dr. Jain presents a seminar talk at IRISA, Rennes, titled "Human-centered Video Editing", hosted by Olivier LeMeur.
5 July 2017 Dr Jain presents an invited talk at B-COM, Rennes, hosted by Jean-Yves Aubie.
30 June 2017 Dr. Jain presents an invited talk at Technicolor, Rennes, titled "Human-centered Video Editing", hosted by Erik Reinhard.
27 June 2017 Dr. Jain presents research at an invited lecture at IRISA, Brittany, titled "Human-centered Computer Graphics".
16 June 2017 Dr. Jain is a visiting professor at IRISA, Brittany, this summer. She is hosted by Dr. Olivier Le Meur and the PERCEPT team.
23 - 24 April 2017 Brendan is invited to participate in the NSF Visioning Workshop on Networked Virtual and Augmented Reality Communications located in Washington, DC. Brendan serves as the Session Chair for the "Networked Immersion quality of experience: Trade-offs between latency and data volume" breakout session.
21 March 2017 Dr. Jain presents research at the UF Data Science and Informatics Symposium, Spring 2017.
10 February 2017 Dr. Jain presents ongoing research projects at UF ACM.
1 November 2016 Jain lab receives funding from Youtube Research!
20 September 2016 Take a look at the exciting things the team was doing over the summer!
29 June 2016 Paper on 'Decoupling Light Reflex from Pupillary Dilation to Measure Emotional Arousal in Videos' to be presented at ACM Symposium on Applied Perception 2016. Congratulations Pallavi! See project page here.
29 June 2016 Article on "Is the motion of a child perceivably different from the motion of an adult?" accepted to ACM Transactions on Applied Perception. See project page here.
9 June 2016 Poster on analyzing heart-rate of viewers on environmental public service announcements to be presented at SAP. Congratulations to Kartik Chaturvedi, Beida Chen, Isabella Cuba, Melissa Franklin, Nia Haynes, Andrew Lee, Pallavi Raiturkar, Rebecca Soodeen, and Julian Tolentino! Download preprint poster abstract here.
9 June 2016 Poster on analyzing visual scan paths on movie trailers to be presented at SAP. Congrats to Pallavi and Andrew! Download preprint poster abstract here.
18 May 2016 Workshop paper on benchmarking saliency algorithms on comic art to be presented at ICME Workshop on MMArt. Congratulations Khimya! See project page here.
18 May 2016 Poster on clustering gaze data for segmentation on comics to be presented at SAP. Congratulations Ishwarya! See project page here.
18 May 2016 Article on Predicting Moves-on-Stills for Comic Art accepted to IEEE CG&A Special Issue on Quality Assessment and Perception. See project page here.
1 May 2016 Jain lab receives funding from NSF! (CRII: RI 1566481)
29 April 2016 Don't miss the tutorial on "Visual Attention from a Graphics Point of View" on May 9 at Eurographics. Organized by Dr. Jain, along with Dr. Sumanta Pattanaik and Dr. Olivier Le Meur.
27 April 2016 Two papers from Jain Lab accepted to ACM Symposium on Applied Perception. Coming soon!
15 April 2016 Andrew Lee has accepted a PhD position at Duke University. Congratulations Andrew!
5 Feb 2016 Dr. Jain is conference co-chair for ACM Symposium on Applied Perception (SAP), along with Dr. Joerg. Call for papers for ACM Symposium on Applied Perception (SAP)is out. Deadlines here.
