James Teh Keng Soon is a PH.D research scholar pursuing his postgraduate degree at Mixed Reality Lab in National University of Singapore. He joined this research center in July 2005, but has previously been an undergraduate research student in the same center since July 2004. He was previously a recipient of the ASEAN scholarship when he was studying at the National Junior College and also at the National University of Singapore for his Computer Engineering Bachelor’s degree.
His main research topics are human-computer interaction (HCI), remote interaction and communication, haptics and tangible interaction. He has authored and co-authored several conference papers and journal, for example, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence (ICAT) and also won an art award at the prestigious VIDA 8.0 Art & Artificial Life International Competition, Fundación Telefónica. His works are reported in The Straits Times (Singapore), WiredNews, CNN, and ABC News to name a few. He has also shown his works, Poultry.Internet, in Montreal, CHI 2006, the premier HCI conference in the world.
Khoo Eng Tat is a Ph.D. research scholar at Mixed Reality Lab, NUS. He has presented his research on human computer interaction (HCI), in international renowned conferences for instance SIGCHI and SIGGRAPH. He was the artistic advisor for the 6th Asia Europe Art Camp, organized by Asia-Europe Foundation in partnership with International Symposium of Electronic Art (ISEA) 2008. He is also a composer-musician and a new media artist that worked on intersections of technology, arts and culture.
Ken Zhu Kening is a PhD candidature of Mixed Reality Lab. His homeland origin from Maoming, Guangdong, China, and had received his bachelor degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China. His research interests include computer graphics, game development, human-computer interaction and mixed reality. Now he is mainly working on the Qoot World project, as a technical team member and meanwhile also involved in the BlogWall and some other projects.
Isuru Godage is a PhD research student in the Mixed Reality Lab at the National University of Singapore. He received his B.Sc. honors degree with first class honours in Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Moratuwa in Sri Lanka in 2007. Upon graduation, he had been working in Sri Lanka Telecom Mobitel before joining Mixed Reality lab in July 2008.
Isuru’s research interests include intelligent human computer interaction, intelligent robotics, embedded sensor networks, embedded control systems and digital signal processing. He has carried out many projects in these areas during his undergraduate studies in Sri Lanka and published papers at internationally recognized conferences. He has also worked as a student network administrator for 4 years at University of Moratuwa. Isuru is currently involved in Qoot® project.
Isuru has recently managed to secure distinguished GENIUS MEDAL of Hungarian republic and the SILVER MEDAL at the 36th International Exhibition of Inventions 2008, which was held at Geneva Palexpo (Hall 7) in Switzerland from 2nd to 6th April 2008 for his final year undergraduate project: “Sensor based motion tracking system for Human-Computer interaction”.
Nimesha Ranasinghe is a PhD research scholar at Mixed Reality Lab in National University of Singapore from July 2008. He received his Bachelor of Science Honors degree in Information Technology from University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka in 2007. He has superlative working experience on several ATM, Kiosk and mobile research projects at Interblocks Ltd and Dialog Telekom Ltd in Sri Lanka as a Software Engineer.
He has been working on several ongoing projects at the Mixed Reality lab such as Qoot World, BlogWall and ‘Interactive Table’. His research interests are mainly focuses on Mixed and Augmented reality, Interactive Media and Interactive communication, Mobile and Embedded Systems, Mobile HCI and Distributed Systems.
Tim Merritt is a PhD student at the Mixed Reality Lab in Singapore. Previous to this, he worked as a researcher in the Agora Game Laboratory, Finland working on the Nordic Serious Games project. He received a master of arts degree in Digital Culture from the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, and a BA in Liberal Arts from Xavier University, Cincinnati, USA in 2004. His research interests include biological media, design of interactive systems, mixed reality, human-computer interaction, cognitive issues of mediated reality, computer animation, social aspects of gaming, and user psychology. He came to the lab for the first time as a visiting intern student and has returned as a PhD student under the NGSS scholarship.
Michelle Narangoda is currently a PH.D Research student at the Mixed Reality Lab at the National University of Singapore. She received her B.Sc. honors degree in Information Technology from the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. She has over 2 years experience with Java technologies and has previously worked at Lanka Software Foundation and Starrayz (Pvt) Ltd before joining the MXR Lab. Her main research interests include human computer interaction, mixed reality and artificial intelligence.
Hooman Aghaebrahimi Samani is a PhD scholar of NUS Graduate School of Integrative Science and Engineering, pursuing his postgraduate degree at Mixed Reality Lab in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore. Before commencing of his PhD in Singapore, he studied different fields of Robotics in UK, Netherlands, Germany and Iran. He has participated in several Robocup competitions and won world prizes in this regard.
Robotics and specifically Artificial Intelligence is his main research interest. His PhD Research area is multidisciplinary artificial intelligence including several topics from mathematics, engineering, computer sciences, philosophy, psychology, computational neuroscience, art and computational intelligence for developing a truly interactive robot with pragmatic affection.
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