About
George Papagiannakis is a computer scientist and currently working as senior researcher at MIRALab, University of Geneva working with Prof. Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann. He is also Assistant Professor (under appointment) at the University of Crete, Greece. He obtained his PhD in Computer Science at the University of Geneva, his M.Sc (Hons) in Advanced Computing, at the University of Bristol and his B.Eng. (Hons) in Computer Systems Engineering, at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST). His research interests are mostly confined in the areas of mixed reality illumination models, real-time rendering, virtual cultural heritage , programmable graphics and real-time frameworks for integrated VR/AR simulation. He has actively been involved in the conception, specification and contribution to several European funded research projects in these research areas. Currently he is working on high-fidelity presence and interaction with virtual characters in mixed reality.He has more than 30 publications in the field of Computer Graphics, Virtual and Augmented Reality and he is member of IEE, ACM and SIGGRAPH professional societies. He can be contacted either at MIRALab or at george (dot) papagiannakis (at) gmail (dot) com .