Paranthaman will play an important role in the new Game Design Minor, a multi-disciplinary program focused on teaching students to design computer games, where he will teach a variety of games-related courses. His research also focuses on games and is currently centered on exploring the insights of the player experience, as well as wider topics related to artificial intelligence.

Prior to joining Elon, Paranthaman worked as a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at Northeastern University. He earned his doctorate from the University of Genoa, Italy, his master鈥檚 degree from Heriot-Watt University, U.K., and his bachelor’s degree from Anna University in India.

Each team was presented

The competition lasted three hours. Teams were ranked based on the number of problems successfully solved, number of unsuccessful attempts and time required to reach a solution. 

The 福利亚洲国产精品 team included Jack Amend, Mason Chambers and Sabrina van der Gracht. The team is coached by Scott Spurlock, assistant professor in the Computer Science Department.

The research paper, which was selected from among 26 finalists as the overall best-at-conference, resulted from a multi-year collaboration. It is one of two papers authored by Spurlock to be accepted at the conference. The papers will be published in the main conference proceedings.

Spurlock, Shan and Souvenir developed an approach for the automatic recognition of common human actions, such as waving, walking or sitting. Their framework is designed to balance the accuracy of recognition with the speed of computation, to allow its use in interactive environments, such as smart-homes. Compared with prior approaches, the authors showed that their method was able to more reliably recognize actions after observing them for shorter periods of time.

Spurlock joined the Department of Computing Sciences in August after completing his doctoral degree at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Souvenir presented the work at the conference in Seville.