Title
Associate Professor
Education
PhD in Computer Science (2017), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
MS in Computer Science (2016), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering (2012), Jaypee Institute of Information Technology University (JIIT), India
Prior Appointments
Associate Professor (Adjunct), University of Maryland at College Park
Appointments: Department of Computer Science ,
University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (Affiliate),
Maryland Robotics Center (James Clark School of Engineering) (Affiliate)
Brain and Behavior Institute (BBI)(Affiliate)
Research Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Appointments: Department of Computer Science
Research Areas
Affective Computing, Computer Graphics (AR/VR, Augmented Intelligence, Multi-Agent Simulation), Social Robotics, Autonomous Agents, Cognitive modeling, and planning for intelligent characters.
Notable Awards
Best Paper (Honorable Mention) at IEEE Virtual Reality 2022: ENI: Quantifying Environment Compatibility for Natural Walking in Virtual Reality
Best Paper Award at IEEE Virtual Reality 2021: Text2Gestures: A Transformer-Based
Network for Generating Emotive Body Gestures for Virtual Agents
Biography
Dr. Aniket Bera is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science at Purdue University. He directs the interdisciplinary research lab IDEAS (Intelligent Design for Empathetic and Augmented Systems) at Purdue, working on modeling the "human" and "social" aspects using AI in Robotics, Graphics, and Vision. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Maryland at College Park. Prior to this, he was a Research Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received his Ph.D. in 2017 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is also the founder of Project Dost. He is currently serving as the Senior Editor for IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) in the area of "Planning and Simulation" and the Conference Chair for the ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Motion, Interaction and Games (MIG 2022).
His core research interests are in Affective Computing, Computer Graphics (AR/VR, Augmented Intelligence, Multi-Agent Simulation), Social Robotics, Autonomous Agents, Cognitive modeling, and planning for intelligent characters.
