Dr. Paul Graham is the Director of Applied Innovations, tasked with defining new and innovative R&D vectors for the UARC to pursue, as well as assisting ICT’s 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).
Dr. Graham 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.