Members
The following individuals are members of the Parametric Human Consortium, helping to guide the progress of the various projects underway.
Research Scientist, Autodesk Research
Azam Khan is a Human-Computer Interaction Research Scientist at Autodesk Research, and Head of the Environment and Ergonomics Research Group. This hybrid group focuses on modeling, simulation, and visualization of virtual 3D designs of spaces and objects intended for human use. We explore both the outside and the inside of human interaction: with modeling and simulation of architecture and urban design, as well as multiscale human modeling and simulation. We hope to inspire human modeling researchers to work together to create the most advanced digital human model imaginable.
Professor, Division of Anatomy, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto
Professor Agur completed her M.Sc. and later a PhD degree in anatomy at the University of Toronto. She teaches Anatomy, Histology, Neuroanatomy and Embryology. Anne is course director of the Physical and Occupational Therapy Gross Anatomy courses and also contributes to the anatomy course in the Structure and Function block and the Neuroanatomy course of the Brain and Behaviour block of first year medicine. She is the current editor of "Grant's Atlas of Anatomy" and a co-author of "Essential Clinical Anatomy" with Professor Emeritus K.L. Moore. Her research interests include skeletal muscle form and function, clinically applied Neuroanatomy, and Anatomy education.
Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto.
Eugene Fiume is Professor and past Chair of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto, where he also co-directs the Dynamic Graphics Project. Following his B.Math. degree from the University of Waterloo and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Toronto, he was an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow and Maitre Assistant at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. He was awarded an NSERC University Research Fellowship in 1987 and returned to the University of Toronto to a faculty position. He was Associate Director of the Computer Systems Research Institute, and was a Visiting Professor at the University of Grenoble, France.
He has won two teaching awards, as well as Innovation Awards from ITRC for research in computer graphics and Burroughs-Wellcome for biomedical research. He was also the Papers Chair for SIGGRAPH 2001, chairs the SIGGRAPH Awards Committee, and is General Co-chair of Symposium for Computer Animation 2008.
Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Kaiserslautern, Germany
Gerd Reis is a senior researcher at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI GmbH) and a scientific assistant at the University of Kaiserslautern. He is an associate member of the DFGs International Graduate School (IRTG 1131), supporting the field (bio-)medical visualization. He recieved his PhD as well as his Diploma degree from the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. His interests focus on the fields of computer graphics and scientific visualization with special interest in (bio-)medicine and life sciences.
Senior Research Scientist, Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition
Dr. Jeffrey M. Bradshaw is a Senior Research Scientist at the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC) where he leads the research group developing the KAoS policy and domain services framework now in use in several military, space, and scientific research programs. Formerly, he has led research groups at The Boeing Company and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. He has been a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the European Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Engineering (EURISCO) in Toulouse, France; an Honorary Visiting Researcher at the Center for Intelligent Systems and their Applications and AIAI at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland; a visiting professor at the Institut Cognitique at the University of Bordeaux; is former chair of ACM SIGART; and former chair of the RIACS Science Council for NASA Ames Research Center.
He is a member of the National Research Council (NRC) Committee on Military and Intelligence Methodology for Emergent Physiological and Cognitive/Neural Science Research in the Next Two Decades, and is a scientific advisor to the Japanese NEC Technology Paradigm Shifts initiative and the HCIV program at the German National AI Research Center (DFKI). He sat on the External Advisory Board for the Next Generation Intelligent Systems Grand Challenge at Sandia National Labs.
He is a member of the Technical Committee for IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics and for the Aerospace Human Factors and Ergonomics of the IEA. He was the general chair of Autonomous Agents 99 and PAAM 2000, was co-general chair of the Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT) 2001 conference and served as co-program chair for IAT 04 and IAT 07. He was the local organizer for the second International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 03) and the Knowledge Capture conference (K-CAP 03). He co-chaired the first IEEE Symposium on Multi-Agent Security and Survivability (MASS 04), and is on the organizing committee for the first conference on Human-Robotic Interaction (HRI 2006).
He will serve as co-program chair for Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2008) and as Program Vice Chair, 2008 IEEE International Conference on Distributed Human-Machine Systems (DHMS 2008). Dr. Bradshaw serves on the Autonomous Agents Steering committee and on the editorial board of the Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, the Web Semantics Journal, Schedae Informaticae,and the Web Intelligence Journal, and was formerly on the board of the Knowledge Acquisition Journal and the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies. He led the DARPA and NASA funded ITAC study team "Software Agents for the Warfighter." Among other publications, he edited the books Knowledge Acquisition as a Modeling Activity (with Ken Ford, Wiley, 1993), Software Agents (AAAI Press/The MIT Press, 1997).
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
Karan Singh is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Toronto, where he co-directs a reputed graphics and human computer interaction lab, DGP. He holds a BTech. (IIT Madras 1991), MS and PhD (Ohio State University 1992, 1995) in Computer Science. His research interests lie in artist driven interactive graphics, spanning geometric shape design, anatomy, character animation and artistic rendering. He has been an architect on software systems that are the current industry standards for animation (Maya) and reverse engineering (Metris-Paraform). He is a co-founder of sketch2, a sketch based software solution for architecture and industrial design. He was the R+D Director for the 2005 Oscar winning Animation film "Ryan".
Research Software Development Engineer, Autodesk Research
Michael Glueck is a member of the Environment and Ergonomics Research Group at Autodesk Research. A graduate from the University of Toronto in Human-Computer Interaction, he coordinates the activity of intern students working on aspects of the Parametric Human Project. Michael will be developing a database of scanned specimens and simulation framework for integrating both geometric data and material models.
Senior Scientist, Honda Research Institute