Intro

I am a graduate student in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. My interests are in the areas of graphics, facial animation, perception and cognitive science, biological motion, and virtual reality. I am part of the Graphics Lab and my academic adviser is professor Jessica Hodgins.

I grew up in Romania, went to high school in Constanta by the Black Sea, and graduated with a B.A. in computer science from Mount Holyoke College, MA in summer of 2008. In 2007-2008 I spent several months at the Max Planck for Biological Cybernetics in Tuebingen, Germany as a visiting student/intern.

I'm not paying particular attention to this website so the news here might be a little old. I try to reply to e-mail promptly so drop me a line for questions, code, ideas.

Recent Updates

[01/16/2012]:I am TAing Animation Art and Technology [08/28/2011]:Modeling and Animating Eye Blinks presented at APGV in Toulouse, France
[05/16/2011]:Started my JEDI academy internship with the RND group at Industrial Light & Magic
[05/14/2011]:Wearable Electronics for outreach paper presented at CHI
[08/11/2010]:ETH and Disney Research, Zurich talk

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