FACULTY

Biography

Ravin Balakrishnan is a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science, and co-directs the Dynamic Graphics Project (DGP) laboratory. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the U of T, while concurrently working part-time as a researcher at Alias from 1997-2001. He holds the Bell University Laboratories Associate Chair in HCI at the university, and is the recipient of a Premier's Research Excellence Award. His research interests are in Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Interactive Computer Graphics, Information Visualization, and Ubiquitous Computing. A current focus is innovative interaction techniques, interfaces for next generation displays, information visualization, interfaces for animation and 3D modeling, sketch-based interfaces, ambient and pervasive computing, and empirical evaluation of user interfaces including associated metrics and predictive models of human performance.

Keywords

Human-computer interaction, Interactive computer graphics.