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Carol O'Sullivan
Trinity College Dublin

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RESEARCH INTERESTS -
Computer Graphics, Computer Animation, Human Perception, Eye movements.
RESEARCH AFFILIATIONS -
EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES -
INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE SERVICE -
Recent:

SIGGRAPH: (papers committee), 2007, 2006, 2004, 2003
SIGGRAPH ASIA: (papers committee), 2008
EUROGRAPHICS: (papers committee), 2008, 2006, 2005, 2004
Pacific Graphics: (papers committee), 2008, 2007
I3D: ACM Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005
SCA: SIGGRAPH/EUROGRAPHICS Symposium on Computer Animation, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002
IEEE Virtual Reality, 2008, 2007
APGV: ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization, 2008, 2006, 2005, 2004

Others:

CASA: Computer Animation and Social Agents, '04-'07
CAe: Computational Aesthetics in Graphics, '07
ETRA: SIGGRAPH/SIGCHI Eye Tracking Research & Applications, '02, 04
VAST: Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, '04
EG-IRELAND: Irish Workshop on Computer Graphics, '02-'08
V-CROWDS: International Workshop on Crowd Simulation, '05
WSCG: International Conferences in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision, '02-'06
VAA: International Symposium on Virtual and Augmented Architecture, '01
Reviewer for various other journals, books and conferences.
CONFERENCE ORGANISATION -
Co-chair of SCA 2006, the ACM SIGGRAPH/EUROGRAPHICS Symposium on Computer Animation, Vienna, August/September 2006.
Co-chair of Eurographics 2005, the 26^th annual conference of the European Association for Computer Graphics, Dublin, August/September 2005.
Co-chair and co-organiser: ACM SIGGRAPH/EUROGRAPHICS Campfire on Perceptually-Adaptive Graphics Snowbird, Utah in May 2001.
Co-chair and co-organiser of the Eurographics Ireland 2002 Workshop, Dublin, March 2002.

Co-organiser of the International Symposium on Virtual and Augmented Architecture (VAA01) , Dublin, June 2001.

Co-chair and organiser and co-chair of the First Irish Workshop on Eye-Tracking, Dublin, May 2000.
RESEARCH GRANTS -
Current:

Metropolis: SuperCrowds for Multisensory Virtual Environments(Science Foundation Ireland - PI, 2007-2010)

Natural Movers: Characteristic motions for realistic human animation(Science Foundation Ireland - PI, 2008-2011)

StratAG: Strategic Research Cluster (SRC) for Advanced Geotechnologies(Science Foundation Ireland - Co-PI, with NUIM, UCD, & DIT 2008-2013)

GUILD: Generating Urban Infrastructures from LiDAR Data(Science Foundation Ireland - collaborator with UCD, 2006-2009)

Orwell! - Animating Quadrupeds - post-graduate scholarship, Ljiljana Skrba(IRCSET - supervisor, 2007-2009)

Evaluation and Perception of motion graphs - post-doctoral scholarship, Paul Reitsma(IRCSET - supervisor, 2006-2008)

Human simulation - adding variety to hands and faces - post-graduate scholarship, Sophie Joerg(IRCSET - supervisor, 2006-2008)

Conference grant, ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (Science Foundation Ireland - PI, 2008)

Two UREKA (Undergraduate Research) Awards (Science Foundation Ireland - PI, 2008)

LibViz: 3-D environmental model of the Old Library (Long Room Hub Initiative Funding/HEA - collaborator with TCD Library, 2008)

Previous:

GEOPOSTORS: A Game Developers toolkit for Real-Time Crowds(Enterprise Ireland - PI, 2006-2007)

Graduate Programme in Vision, Graphics and Visualisation (VGV): Exploratory Award(IRCSET - PI, 2007)

IITAC - Program for research in Computer Graphics: Animation and Visualisation (HEA PRTLI - CS strand PI, 2002-2007)

A Shared-Memory Hybrid Graphics Cluster for Visualisation and Video Processing(Science Foundation Ireland - PI, 2004-2007)

Conference grant, Eurographics Annual Conference (Science Foundation Ireland - PI, 2005)

MobiSym: Frameworks and Applications for Mobile Networks using Synthetic Multimedia (EI ATRP 2002-2005)

Natural Gesture in Crowds (HEA MMRP 2001-2002, together with Justine Cassell, formerly of MIT Medialab)

Adaptive Techniques for Real-Time Animation (Enterprise Ireland, 2000-2002)

Real-time Physically Based Character Animation(Enterprise Ireland, 1999-2001).

Time-Critical, Adaptive Techniques for Perceptually-Sensitive, Real-Time Animation (Enterprise Ireland, 1998-2000)

Automated Acquisition and Archival of Irish Moulding Profiles (with History of Art, funded by Enterprise Ireland, 1998-2000)

Parallel Algorithms for Global Illumination (Enterprise Ireland and Hitachi, 1998-2000)