Mubbasir Kapadia

Director, Intelligent Visual Interfaces Lab

Email:

Phone:

732-310-6331

Office:

CBIM Room 10

Website:

Personal Website

CV:

Teaching:

Introduction to Computer Graphics*

Topics In Artificial Intelligence

Research Area:

Artificial Intelligence

Computer Animation

Crowd Simulation

Autonomous Agents

Digital Storytelling

Address:

Department of Computer Science

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

110 Frelinghuysen Road

Piscataway, NJ 08854-8019

USA

Biography:

Mubbasir Kapadia is the Director of the Intelligent Visual Interfaces Lab and an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Rutgers University. Previously, he was an Associate Research Scientist at Disney Research Zurich. Kapadia’s research lies at the intersection of artificial intelligence, visual computing, and human-computer interaction, with a mission to develop intelligent visual interfaces to empower content creation for human-aware architectural design, digital storytelling, and serious games. Kapadia’s research is funded by DARPA and NSF, and through generous support from industrial partners including Disney Research, and Unity Labs. He received his PhD in Computer Science at University of California, Los Angeles.

Lab website: https://ivi.cs.rutgers.edu/

Personal News:

Our paper PERFORM: Perceptual Approach for Adding OCEAN Personality to Human Motion using Laban Movement Analysis has been accepted for publication to ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG).
Our paper CANVAS: Computer-Assisted Narrative Animation Synthesis has been published at ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation, 2016.
Our paper PRECISION: Precomputing Environment Semantics for Contact-Rich Character Animation has been accepted at ACM SIGGRAPH I3D 2016. This work has received press coverage including Phys.org and EurekaAlert.
Our book Geometric and Discrete Path Planning for Interactive Virtual Worlds has been published!.
Our book Virtual Crowds: Steps Toward Behavioral Realism has been published!.
Our paper Towards an Accessible Interface for Story World Building is published at 8th Workshop on Intelligent Narrative Technologies (INT), 2015.
Our paper Augmented Creativity- Bridging the Real and Virtual Worlds to Enhance Creative Play is published at ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2015 Symposium on Mobile Graphics and Interactive Applications, 2015.

Publications:

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Environment Optimization for Crowd Evacuation

Special Issue Paper, Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds(CAVW), 2015

January, 2015

Simulating Autonomous Virtual Humans

LAP Lambert Academic Publishing

February, 2012

Geometric and Discrete Path Planning for Interactive Virtual Worlds

Marcelo Kallmann

Mubbasir Kapadia

January, 2016

Classes Taught:

Spring 2017 : COCOON
Fall 2016: CS 428/523: Computer Graphics
Spring 2016: CS 442/675: Game Science
Spring 2016: CS 195: Computational Narrative
Fall 2015: CS 428/523: Computer Graphics
Spring 2015: CS 675: Autonomous Virtual Humans

Student, PostDocs, & Visitors:

PhD Students

Xun Zhang, Rutgers University
Weining Liu, Rutgers University
Hareesh Ravi, Rutgers University
Sejong Yoon, Rutgers University (co-supervised by Prof. Vladimir Pavlovic)
Glen Berseth, University of British Columbia
Brandon Haworth, York University (co-supervised by Prof. Petros Faloutsos)
Muhammad Usman, York University (co-supervised by Prof. Petros Faloutsos)
Fabio Zund, ETH Zurich (co-supervised by Prof. Markus Gross and Prof. Robert W. Sumner)
Francisco Garcia, University of Massachusetts, Amherst