Organizer
Workshop Chair
Dr. Yiyu Cai is an associate professor with the School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at Nanyang Technological University. Singapore. He has over 20 years of experience doing research and development in VR + AI for applications in medicine, engineering and education. Back in middle 1990s, he and his collaborators pioneered the VR research for image-guided minimally vascular intervention with several patents granted. He and his students developed a tactile VR simulator for training of intra-cardiac intervention which was featured in IEEE Computer Graphics & Application. His innovation in the use of VR to assist children with autism in their social communication and learning is well published in leading journals such as IEEE Transactions on Neural System & Rehabilitation Engineering. He has given numerous keynote and invited speeches internationally. In 2004, Yiyu Cai was instrumental in the establishment of the ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Virtual-Reality Continuum and Applications in Industry (VRCAI) and co-chaired VRCAI'2004 in Singapore. He was the main organizer of the 2007 Asia Symposium on Computer-assisted Surgery. He was elected co-president of the International Simulation and Gaming Association (ISAGA) and co-chaired the 40th ISAGA annual conference in Singapore.
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Workshop Chair
Dr. Zerrin Yumak is an assistant professor at the Department of Information and Computing Sciences at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. She obtained a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from MIRALab, University of Geneva, Switzerland and was a post-doc researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne and Institute for Media Innovation at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She is doing research on interactive virtual characters and social robots as well as character animation for the past 12 years. She has been an Associate Editor of the Visual Computer and
Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds journals. She is a program co-chair of the Computer Animation and Social Agents conference 2019 that will be organized in Paris, France.
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