Professional Activities

Journal Editorship

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

Program Chair of the British Machine Vision Conference 2018
Poster Chair of the ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology 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

Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (PG) 2016, 2017
ACM/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA) 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017
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
International Conference on Web-based Learning (ICWL) 2015
International Conference on Software, Knowledge, Information Management and Applications (SKIMA) 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia Workshop on Data-Driven Animation Techniques 2017

Best Paper Award in the 2016 UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence
Best Poster Award in the 2016 ACM SIGGGRAPH Conference on Motion in Games
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

Last update: 11/10/2017