Karan Singh
About Karan Singh
- Affiliations
- University of Toronto, Associate Professor of Computer Science
- Location
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Bio
Karan Singh is an associate professor of computer science at the University of Toronto, where he co-directs the graphics and human computer interaction lab, DGP. His research interests lie in artist-driven interactive graphics, spanning geometric shape design, character animation, and artistic rendering. He has been a lead architect on various commercial software systems, including Maya, and his interactive tools have been used on a number of film projects, including the 2005 Oscar-winning animated short Ryan.
SIGGRAPH Conference Organizing Committee Positions
- Jury Member
- SIGGRAPH 2006: Sketches
Conference Contributions
- Experiences
- Presentations
- Sessions Moderated
- “DeepLoco: dynamic locomotion skills using hierarchical deep reinforcement learning” by Peng, Berseth, Yin and Panne
- “Phase-functioned neural networks for character control” by Holden, Komura and Saito
- “Learning to Schedule Control Fragments for Physics-Based Characters Using Deep Q-Learning” by Liu and Hodgins
- “Discovering and synthesizing humanoid climbing movements” by Naderi, Rajamäki and Hämäläinen
Other Information
- Roles
- Art Papers Jury Member
- Art Show Jury Member
- Course Organizer
- Course Presenter
- Panel Presenter
- Poster Presenter
- Studio (SIGGRAPH Lab) Presenter
- Talk (Sketch) Presenter
- Talks (Sketches) Jury Member
- Technical Paper Presenter
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