Professional Activities

Journal Editorship and Grant Review Memberships

• EPSRC Associate Peer Review College, since 2018
• Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds, Associate Editor, since 2017
• Computers and Graphics (2017), Guest Editor, Special Issue on Best Papers from Motion in Games 2016

Conference Services

Organization Committee

• Program Chair of the British Machine Vision Conference 2018
• Program Chair of the International Conference on Software, Knowledge, Information Management & Applications 2018
• Demo and Poster Chair of the ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology 2018
• Local Chair of the EAI International Conference on Cloud Computing 2018
• Program Chair of the ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Motion in Games 2016
• Local Chair of the ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology 2014

Program Committee

• Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (PG) 2016, 2017, 2018
• ACM/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA) 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018
• British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
• International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA) 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
• ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST) 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018
• ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Motion in Games (MIG) 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
• International Conference on Software, Knowledge, Information Management and Applications (SKIMA) 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018
• International Conference on Web-based Learning (ICWL) 2015
• Computer Graphics & Visual Computing (CGVC) 2018
• IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality (AIVR) 2018
• ACM SIGGRAPH Asia Workshop on Data-Driven Animation Techniques 2017

Session Chair

• British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) 2018
• ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Motion in Games 2016
• ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology 2012, 2014
• JSPS UK/Japan Symposium on Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality in 2014

Invited Speaker

• JSPS UK/Japan Symposium on Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality in 2014

Patents

• Manufacturing Video Graphics (Publication Number: WO/2010/057897)

Awards

• Best Paper Award in the 2017 International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology (ACE)
• Best Paper Award in the 2016 UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI)
• Best Poster Award in the 2016 ACM SIGGGRAPH Conference on Motion in Games (MIG)
• IEEE CIS Outstanding Student-Paper Travel Grants (USD 800) for a co-supervised PhD Jie Li in 2016
• IEEE CIS Outstanding Student-Paper Travel Grants (USD 800) for a co-supervised PhD Yao Tan in 2016
• Outstanding Teaching Performance Award from the University of Worcester in 2011
• Best Paper Award in the 2008 Annual Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents
• PhD Scholarship (£37,000) from the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh in 2006

External Examinar

PhD External Examinar

• Twin Karmakharm from Sheffield University in 2017
• Ziyun Cai from Sheffield Unviersity in 2017
• Andreas Stiegler from the University of the West Scotland in 2017
• Lu Lou from Aberystwyth University in 2015

Master Degree External Examinar

• Michael Gillon from the University of Edinburgh in 2014

Grant Proposal Reviewer

• EPSRC Standard Proposal in 2018
• French National Research Agency (ANR) Project INVISCO in 2018
• Dutch Technology Foundation STW in 2014
• Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology in 2012

 

         

Last update: 16/10/2018