Principal Investigator - Dr. Eakta Jain
Eakta Jain is an Associate Professor of Computer and Information Science and Engineering at the University of Florida. She received her PhD and MS degrees in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University and her B.Tech. degree from IIT Kanpur. She has industry experience at Texas Instruments R&D labs, Disney Research Pittsburgh, and the Walt Disney Animation Studios. Dr. Jain is interested in user modeling, with particular interest and expertise in visual attention and perception. Her areas of work include graphics and virtual reality, generation of avatars, human factors in the future of work and transportation. Dr. Jain served as the Technical Program Chair for ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications (2020) and ACM/Eurographics Symposium on Applied Perception (2021). She currently leads the human factors sub-group at the University of Florida Transportation Institute. Her research group at the University of Florida has been funded through faculty research awards from Facebook/Oculus and Google/YouTube, federal funding from the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, and state funding from the Florida Department of Transportation.
Current Students
Ph.D. / M.S.
Brendan David-John
Ph.D Student
Research interests: Eye Tracking, Computer Graphics, Virtual Reality, and Applied Perception
Professional Activities: ACM ETRA 2021 Short Paper Associate Chair, ACM ETRA 2021 Long Paper Reviewer, IEEE AIVR 2021 & 2020 Program Committee Member, ACM SAP 2019 Reviewer
Courses:CAP 5536 Advanced Data Structures, CAP 5556 Programming Language Principles, CAP 5108 Research Methods for Human Centered Computing, CAP 6701 Advanced Computer Graphics, CAP 6601 Machine Learning, CDA5155 Computer Architecture Principles
Ethan Wilson
Ph.D Student
Research interests: Animation, Image Generation, Face Swapping
Heng Yao
Ph.D Student (Collaborator)
Undergraduate
Spring 2021 Lab Team
Spring 2020 Lab Team
Summer 2019 Lab Team
Spring 2019 Lab Team
Spring 2017 Lab Team
Summer 2016 Lab Team
Research Opportunities
New Check out the Computer Engineering Undergraduate Research page.
Past Students
PhD
Name |
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| Yuzhu Dong, now Research Engineer at Google DeepMind |
MS
Name |
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| Tingshan Pan |
| Srividya Surampudi, now Software Engineer at Apple |
| Niraj Chowdhary |
| Manishkumar Chopra |
| Pallavi Raiturkar (Walmart Labs) |
| Khimya Khetarpal (Intel), now PhD student at McGill University |
| Lavanya Chennupatti (Spotify) |
| Archana Nagarajan |
| Sachin Paryani (Microsoft) |
| Chaitra Yangandul (EAB) |
| Madhusudan Govindraju |
Undergraduate
Name |
|---|
| Xuanting Liu |
| Karina LaRubbio |
| Aidan Persaud |
| Nicholas Esposito |
| Max LoGalbo |
| Adam Opyrchal |
| Song Li |
| David Li |
| Katrina Barredo |
| Jessica Buchanan |
| Mikayla Crawford |
| Greg DeCanio |
| Thomas Domas |
| Kevin Tandi |
| Noah Kurrack |
| Brittani Lounds |
| Hannah Fechtel |
| Nadia Crocker |
| Jamie Tompkins |
| Garrick Sewsankar |
| Cody Laflamme |
| Erin Fierce |
| Xiaohe Yue |
| Isaiah Bonds |
| Andrew Lee |
| Melissa Franklin |
| Caleb Bryant |
| Isaac Manjarres (Visiting Student, CMU) |
| Julian Tolentino (UF) |
| Isabella Cuba DREU, Vasser College |
| Matthew Pearson |
| Chesalon Taylor Jr. |
| Kartik Chaturvedi (Citi) |
| Skyler Burgoyne |
| John Henning |
| Tana Konda |
| Aditi Singh |
Committee Service
Sarah Brown (HCC Ph.D., Chair: Asst. Prof. Sharon Chu)
Mohan Zalake (CS Ph.D., Chair: Prof. Ben Lok)
Shashank Ranjan (CS Ph.D., chaired by Asst. Prof. Corey Toler-Franklin)
Kai Zhang (CS Ph.D., chaired by Asst. Prof. Alireza Entezari)
Aishat Aloba (HCC Ph.D., chaired by Asst. Prof. Lisa Anthony)
Garrett Griffin (Music Education Ph.D., Chair: Prof. William Bauer)
Shaghayegh Esmaeili
Previous Committees:
- Ph.D. Thesis Committee
- Alex Shaw (CS Ph.D., chaired by Asst. Prof. Lisa Anthony)
- Pedro Adorno (Transportation Engineering Ph.D., Chair: Assoc. Prof. Siva Sivaraman)
- Michael Borish (Ph.D. committee, chaired by Prof. Benjamin Lok) 2016
- Jae Woong Lee (Ph.D. committee, chaired by Prof. Sumi Helal) 2015
- Andrew Robb (Ph.D. committee, chaired by Prof. Benjamin Lok) 2015
- Abhishek Chhetri, University of Texas at Dallas 2014
- Xuehan Xiong, Carnegie Mellon University
- Shashank Ranjan (M.S. committee, chaired by Asst. Prof. Corey Toler-Franklin) 2016
- Laura Trutoiu, Carnegie Mellon University