Karan Singh
About Karan Singh
Affiliations
- University of Toronto, Associate Professor of Computer Science
- JALI Research
- University of British Columbia (UBC)
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
Committee Member
- SIGGRAPH 2025: Technical Papers
Jury Member
- SIGGRAPH 2006: Sketches
Conference Contributions
Experiences
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Labs-Studio
Real-Time Live!
Learning
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Courses
Panels
Posters
Talks-Sketches
Technical Papers
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
- “A system for crowd rendering” by Haddon and Griffiths
- “Ray-tracing fur for Ice Age: the Melt Down” by Swaaij
- “One thousand lights at 200mph” by Smitt
- “Variational, meaningful shape decomposition” by Krayevoy and Sheffer
- “Implementation details of SmoothSketch: 3D free-form shapes from complex sketches” by Karpenko and Hughes
- “Extracting Boolean isosurfaces from tetrahedral meshes” by Taubin and Sibley
- “Perception-based construction of 3D models from line drawings” by Feng, Lee and Gooch
- “Grooming, Animating & Rendering Fur for “King Kong” 2006” by Preston and Hill
Other Information
Roles
- Art Papers Jury Member
- Art Show Jury Member
- Course Organizer
- Course Presenter
- Panel Presenter
- Poster Presenter
- Real-Time Live Presenter
- Studio (SIGGRAPH Lab) Presenter
- Talk (Sketch) Moderator
- Talk (Sketch) Presenter
- Talks (Sketches) Jury Member
- Technical Paper Presenter
- Technical Papers Organizing Committee Member
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