Education 

CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY Pittsburgh, PA, USA 
Ph.D. in Computer Science Summer 2004 -Fall 2006 
Thesis: Evaluating Data Driven Character Animation 
Advisor: Nancy Pollard 

BROWN UNIVERSITY Providence, RI, USA 
Sc.M. in Computer Science Fall 1999 -Summer 2004 
Thesis: Metrics for Motion Editing 
Advisor: Nancy Pollard 

UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA Vancouver, BC, Canada 
B.Sc. in Combined Honours Mathematics Fall 1993 -Spring 1998 
and Computer Science, with Honours 

Research Employment 

TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN Dublin, Ireland 
Research Fellow December 2006 -Present 
Supervisor: Carol O.Sullivan 

AT&T RESEARCH Florham Park, NJ, USA 
Student Researcher Summer 2001 
Supervisor: Peter Stone 

E-GEMS RESEARCH GROUP, UBC Vancouver, BC, Canada 
Student Researcher Spring 1997 
Supervisor: Maria Klawe 

TRIUMF NEUTRINO GROUP Vancouver, BC, Canada 
Student Research Assistant Spring 1995 
Supervisor: Peter Gumplinger 


Teaching and Advising 
TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN 
Co-advisor 
PhD student Nithin Tharakan 
PhD student Cormac O.Brien 
Dublin, Ireland 
Fall 2007 
Summer 2008 
-Present 
-Present 

TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN Dublin, Ireland 
Guest Lecturer Fall 2007 
CS7ET04, Realtime Animation and Physics (graduate course, 3-lecture 
module) 

CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY Pittsburgh, USA 
Graduate Teaching Assistant Fall 2004 
15-211, Fundamental Data Structures and Algorithms (undergraduate 
course) 

BROWN UNIVERSITY Providence, USA 
Graduate Teaching Assistant Fall 2000 
CS 229, Topics in Algorithmic Animation (graduate course) 

Conference Presentations 

.Evaluating Data Driven Character Animation., ACM SIGGRAPH, Los Angeles, 
USA, August 2008. 

.Effect of Scenario on Perceptual Sensitivity to Errors in Animation., 
Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization, Los Angeles, USA, August 
2008. 

.Effect of Character Animacy and Preparatory Motion on Perceptual 
Magnitude of Errors in Ballistic Motion., Eurographics, Crete, Greece, April 2008. 

.Evaluating Motion Graphs for Character Animation., ACM SIGGRAPH/ 
Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation, Grenoble, France, August 2004. 

.Perceptual Metrics for Character Animation: Sensitivity to Errors in 
Ballistic Motion., ACM SIGGRAPH, San Diego, USA, July 2003. 

.Self-Enforcing Strategic Demand Reduction., Workshop on Agent Mediated 
Electronic Commerce, Bologna, Italy, July 2002. 


Refereed Papers 

P. S. A. Reitsma and C. O.Sullivan, .Effect of Scenario on Perceptual 
Sensitivity to Errors in Animation., Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and 
Visualization 2008, Los Angeles, USA, August 2008. 

P. S. A. Reitsma, J. Andrews, and N. S. Pollard, .Effect of Character 
Animacy and Preparatory Motion on Perceptual Magnitude of Errors in Ballistic 
Motion., Proceedings of Eurographics 2008, Crete, Greece, April 2008. 

P. S. A. Reitsma and N. S. Pollard, .Evaluating Motion Graphs for 
Character Animation., ACM Transactions on Graphics, 26(4), Article18(October2007), 
presented at ACM SIGGRAPH 2008. 

P. S. A. Reitsma and N. S. Pollard, .Evaluating Motion Graphs for 
Character Navigation., Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer 
Animation, Grenoble, France, August 2004. 

P. S. A. Reitsma and N. S. Pollard, .Perceptual Metrics for Character 
Animation: Sensitivity to Errors in Ballistic Motion., ACM Transactions on Graphics: 
Special Issue Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2003, San Diego, CA, July 2003, 
22(3) pp. 537-542. 

J. Lee, J. Chai, P. S. A. Reitsma, J. K. Hodgins, N. S. Pollard, 
.Interactive Control of Avatars Animated with Human Motion Data., ACM Transactions on Graphics: 
Special Issue Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2002, SanAntonio, TX,August2002, 21(3),pp. 
491-500. 

P. S. A. Reitsma, P. Stone, J. A. Csirik, and M. L. Littman, 
.Self-Enforcing Strategic DemandReduction., Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce 2002, Bologna, 
Italy, July2002, pp. 289-306. 


Invited Papers 

N. S. Pollard and P. S. A. Reitsma, .Animation of Humanlike Characters: 
Dynamic Motion Filtering with a Physically Plausible Contact Model., Yale 
Workshop on Adaptive and Learning Systems, 2001. 


Professional Service 

Local Chair, ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation 
2008, Dublin, Ireland, July 7-9, 2008 

Conference reviewer: ACM SIGGRAPH, ACM SIGGRAPH Asia, Eurographics, 
Pacific Graphics, Web3D 


Grants and Awards 

Science Foundation Ireland RFP Grant #CMSF243. Principal Investigator: Steve Collins. 
Amount funded: $225k(155k Euro)

Science Foundation Ireland Conference Grant #08CW1371. Principal 
Investigator: Carol O'Sullivan. Amount funded: $15k(10k Euro)

Irish Research Council for Science and Engineering, Embark Initiative, 
Postdoctoral Fellowship. Amount funded: $135k (93k Euro)

NSERC Postgraduate Award A (declined due to US study location)
Andries van Dam Scholarship (Brown entrance scholarship, Fall 1999)
Canada Scholarship (UBC, duration of studies)


Biographical 

Citizenship: Canadian
Hobbies: martial arts, hiking, ballroom dancing, economic analysis


References 

Prof. Nancy 
Pollard,CSD/RI,CarnegieMellonUniversity,Pittsburgh,PA,USA,15213. 
412-268-1479, nsp_at_cs.cmu.edu 

Prof. Carol O.Sullivan, CS Dept, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, 
Ireland. (353 1)8961220, Carol.OSullivan_at_cs.tcd.ie 

Dr. Steven Collins, CS Dept, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. 
(353 1)896-8436, steven.collins_at_cs.tcd.ie 

Prof. Jessica Hodgins, CSD/RI, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, 
PA, USA, 15213. 412-268-6795, jkh_at_cs.cmu.edu