Marcelo Kallmann
School of Engineering
University of California, Merced
Marcelo Kallmann is founding faculty and associate professor of computer science at the University of California, Merced. Before moving to UC Merced in 2005 he was research faculty at the computer science department of the University of Southern California (USC) and a research scientist at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT). Between 2001 and 2004 he did postdocs at the USC robotics research lab and at the virtual reality lab of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), where he completed his PhD in 2001. His areas of research include computer animation, virtual reality and humanoid robotics. In these areas he has extensively published in international journals, conferences and workshops. He routinely serves as program committee member for major international conferences and in 2012 he will be Program Chair for the International Conference on Motion in Games (MIG). At UC Merced he established and leads the computer graphics research group, and his research has been supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS). Details about his research are found at http://graphics.ucmerced.edu/
