People
Principal Investigator | Ph.D. Students | M.Sc. Students | Undergraduates | Staff |
Dinesh K. Pai | Yu Ju (Edwin) Chen | Jan Hansen | Aurelia Kong | Ye Fan |
| Egor Larionov | Austin Rothwell | Kiran Mann | |
| Prashant Sachdeva | Alistair Wick | Yuan Tian | |
| | Pearson Wyder-Hodge | Jerry Yin | |
Alumni
We take great pride in mentoring and training students in research. Our trainees, at all levels, have been exceptionally successful, both in academia and industry. Fourteen of our trainees now hold faculty positions at some of the best universities in the world.
Others are research scientists at world-class research laboratories (e.g., CNRS – France’s National Centre for Scientific Research and Adobe Research). Our M.Sc. students are highly sought after in industry; several have helped found startups (e.g., Vital Mechanics Research, Hemisphere Games).
We are always looking for talented trainees to join our lab. If you are interested, please contact Dr. Pai via email with your CV and a brief description of yourself and your research interests.
Simulating how the human body deforms in contact with clothing, wearables, and other objects is of central importance to many fields. However, the tissue material properties needed to accurately simulate real human bodies had been sorely lacking. We showed that these mechanical properties can be directly measured using a novel hand-held device. We have developed […]
November 18, 2017
The grant supports developing a portable dynamic vision test for the aging population. Vision loss among the elderly is a multidimensional challenge and a major health care problem. In Canada, the direct cost of vision loss is[...]
October 29, 2017
David I. W. Levin, who received his Ph.D. working with Dr. Pai in 2012, has been awarded the Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Simulation-Driven Graphics and Fabrication. He is now an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto[...]
July 9, 2017
Dr. Dinesh Pai and his research has been featured on Vice Motherboard in an article titled "Film Directors Are Bringing Actors Back From the Dead With Creepily Real CGI Skin." Here is an brief excerpt from the article [...]
* These students also completed a brief postdoc in our lab.
Last Name | First Name | Current Position | Program | Year |
Millet | Guillaume | Patent Examiner, European Patent Office | Postdoc | 2013 |
Ikeda | Atsutoshi | Lecturer, Kindai University | Postdoc | 2011 |
Zariffa | José | Assistant Professor, University of Toronto | Postdoc | 2011 |
Gilles | Benjamin | Research Scientist, Le Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | Postdoc | 2010 |
Forssén | Per-Erik | Associate Professor,Linköping University | Postdoc | 2007 |
Lloyd | John | Research Engineer, University of British Columbia | Postdoc | 1998 |
Levin | David | Assistant Professor, University of Toronto | Ph.D. | 2012 |
Yeo | Sang Hoon | Lecturer, University of Birmingham | Ph.D. | 2012 |
Sueda | Shinjiro | Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University | Ph.D.* | 2010 |
Wei | Qi | Assistant Professor, George Mason University | Ph.D.* | 2010 |
Kaufman | Danny | Research Scientist, Adobe Systems | Ph.D.* | 2009 |
Edmunds | Timothy | Faculty, British Columbia Institute of Technology | Ph.D.* | 2008 |
Yin | Kang Kang | Associate Professor, Simon Fraser University | Ph.D. | 2007 |
Kry | Paul | Associate Professor, McGill University | Ph.D. | 2005 |
James | Doug | Professor, Stanford University | Ph.D.* | 2001 |
Lang | Jochen | Associate Professor, University of Ottawa | Ph.D. | 2001 |
Van den Doel | Kees | Research Associate, University of British Columbia | Ph.D. | 1999 |
Ralph | Scott K. | Machine Learning and Reasoning Research Scientist, Uncharted Software | Ph.D. | 1999 |
Spiteri | Raymond | Professor, University of Saskatchewan | Ph.D. | 1997 |
Cardoso | João | Consultant | M.Sc. | 2016 |
Bradley | Susanne | Ph.D. Student, University of British Columbia | M.Sc. | 2015 |
Fooken | Jolande | Ph.D. Student, Neuroscience, Visual Performance & Oculomotor Mobility Lab | M.Sc. | 2015 |
Harrison | Darcy | Lead Software Developer, Vital Mechanics Inc. | M.Sc. | 2015 |
Ranjan | Anurag | Ph.D. Student, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems | M.Sc. | 2015 |
Troniak | Daniel | Robotics Research Engineer, Caterpillar Inc. | M.Sc. | 2014 |
Fain | Mikhail | Software Development Engineer, Amazon | M.Sc. | 2013 |
Fan | Ye | Lead Software Developer Lead, Vital Mechanics Inc. | M.Sc. | 2013 |
Humberston | Ben | Tech Lead, Facebook Reality Labs, Pittsburgh | M.Sc. | 2013 |
Li | Duo | Software Engineer, Google | M.Sc. | 2013 |
Litven | Joshua | Developer, LMRKTS | M.Sc. | 2013 |
Lakzadeh | Mahkameh | Mechanical Engineer, Océ | M.Sc. | 2011 |
Lesmana | Martin | Business Executive, Jakarta, Indonesia | M.Sc. | 2011 |
Jones | Garrett | Developer, Quail Inc. | M.Sc. | 2011 |
Landgren | Axel | Prototype Development Engineer, Axis Communications | M.Sc. | 2010 |
Kaufman | Andrew | R&D Lead, Image Engine Design Inc. | M.Sc. | 2008 |
Sadhukhan | Subarna | Manager and Technical Lead, Google | M.Sc. | 2005 |
Boxerman | Eddy | Founder, Hemisphere Games | M.Sc. | 2003 |
Knott | David | Programmeur Généraliste, Ubisoft Entertainment | M.Sc. | 2003 |
Yang | Ruiyao | | M.Sc. | 2003 |
Zhang | Youwei | | M.Sc. | 2003 |
Cline | Michael | Software Developer, Next Level Games | M.Sc. | 2002 |
Hoskinson | Reynald | Systems Engineer, Arius Technology Inc. | M.Sc. | 2002 |
Chau | Icarus | | M.Sc. | 2000 |
DiFilippo | Derek | Senior Software Developer, jSonar | M.Sc. | 2000 |
Richmond | Joshua | Director of Engineering, Synaptive Medical Inc. | M.Sc. | 2000 |
Ullrich | Chris | Vice President, Immersion Corporation | M.Sc. | 1998 |
Shi | Yunling | | M.Sc. | 1997 |
Siira | Juhani | VP Engineering, Saturna Green Systems | M.Sc. | 1996 |
Cloutier | Benoit | Senior Director R&D, 2020 Inc. | M.Sc. | 1995 |
Lee | Gene S. | Senior Software Engineer, Walt Disney Animation Studios | M.Sc. | 1994 |
Neog | Debanga Raj | Co-Founder and Technical Lead, Nytilus | Ph.D. | 2018 |
Rolin | Robert | Software Developer | M.Sc. | 2017 |