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I am an Associate Professor and director of the Virtual Reality Lab in the School of Applied and Creative Computing and a core faculty member of the Applied AI Research Center at Purdue University. My research revolves around virtual reality, virtual humans, intelligent virtual agents, and human-computer interaction. Specifically, I develop algorithms and methodologies for creating immersive virtual reality experiences and apply cognitive and experimental psychology concepts to understand how humans interact with them. In the past, I was a Postdoctoral Researcher (2016) in the Department of Computer Science at Dartmouth College. I hold a Ph.D. (2014) in Informatics and an M.Sc. (2011) in Multimedia Applications and Virtual Environments, both from the Department of Informatics of the University of Sussex, and an integrated Master's degree (B.Sc. & M.Sc., 2009) in Audiovisual Science and Art from the Department of Audio & Visual Arts of Ionian University. I am a member of ACM and IEEE. I serve as Associate Editor for the Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds and Frontiers in Virtual Reality journals as well as on the organizing and program committees of many conferences in the virtual reality, computer graphics/animation, and human-computer interaction fields. I have received Best Paper Awards from the IEEE ISMAR (2024), ACM TiiS (2023), and ACM SIGGRAPH VRCAI (2022), and Honorable Mention Awards (Top 5%) from the ACM CHI (2022) and ACM CHI PLAY (2021). Outside of the office, I enjoy playing tennis.

For more info, visit my academic webpage: http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~cmousas/