ICT is pleased to announce that Dr. Paul Graham has been appointed as Director of Applied Innovations, with an emphasis on defining new and innovative R&D vectors for the UARC to pursue.
Reporting to Ryan McAlinden, Director, Defense and Intelligence Initiatives, Dr. Graham will also assist labs and groups to mature and grow their research into new and previously unexplored areas across the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Intelligence Community (IC).
This is a return to ICT for Dr. Graham, as he received his PhD. in Computer Science, University of Southern California, and worked in ICT’s Vision and Graphics Lab, supervised by Dr. Paul Debevec from 2011 to 2014. His PhD thesis focused on creating photorealistic avatars for use in training and simulation across the DoD, and he contributed to the Scanning and Printing a 3D Portrait of President Barack Obama (2014), in collaboration with the Smithsonian Digitization Program Office.
Dr. Graham is also a Veteran, having served in the United States Air Force (USAF) for over twenty years in many varied roles including: faculty positions for the Department of Computer & Cyber Science at the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA); Chief of Operations, Communications and Information Directorate of the National Air and Space Intelligence Center; as well as a variety of leadership, analyst, and operational positions within Air Combat Command, Air Force Test and Evaluation, U.S. Central Command, and U.S. Special Forces Command. While on the faculty at USAFA, he worked with undergraduate computer science students to explore how augmented and virtual reality can enhance pilot training and increase the effectiveness for controlling swarms of small unmanned aerial vehicles.
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Established in 1999, the USC Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT) is a Department of Defense (DoD) University Affiliated Research Center (UARC), sponsored by the US Army. Harnessing Hollywood-derived creativity with academic innovation and military-domain expertise, ICT conducts award-winning R&D in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Computer Graphics, Geospatial Sciences, Human Performance, Learning Sciences, Modeling, Simulation & Gaming, Mixed Reality (MxR), Medical VR, Narrative, and Virtual Humans. ICT accomplishments include: 2,000 Peer-Reviewed Publications with 100,000+ Citations; 140+ Honors and Awards Highlighting Faculty and Staff; 50+ Hollywood Movies/Series use ICT Technologies; 278 Intellectual Property Disclosures; 29 Patents; 3 AAAI Fellows and 2 Academy Awards (Science & Technology).
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