Eakta Jain, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Bio
Eakta Jain, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering at the University of Florida. She received her Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University and her B.Tech. degree from IIT Kanpur. She has industry experience at Texas Instruments R&D labs, Disney Research Pittsburgh, and the Walt Disney Animation Studios. Her research group at the University of Florida is funded through faculty research awards from Facebook/Oculus and Google/YouTube, federal funding from the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, and state funding from the Florida Department of Transportation.
Primary Research Area
Human-Centered Computing
Research Areas
Graphics and Visualization, Human-Centered Computing
Education
Ph.D., Robotics, 2012, Carnegie Mellon University
M.S., Robotics, 2010, Carnegie Mellon University
Bachelor of Technology, Electrical Engineering, 2006, IIT Kanpur
Research Interests
Modeling humans
Publications
See a full list here.
Awards & Distinctions
- Honorable Mention Best Paper: ACM Symposium on Applied Perception (SAP), 2012.
- Best Paper Award: Proceedings of the Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA), 2010.
- Google Anita Borg Finalist, 2008.
News
Contact Information
Telephone: 352-294-6653
Fax: 352-273-0738
Email: ejain@ufl.edu
Website(s):
Jain Lab
Office: MH 5125
Lab Room: E520 CSE
Mailing Address:
For mail:
PO Box 116120
Gainesville, FL 32611
For packages:
5125 Malachowsky Hall
PO Box 116120
Gainesville, FL 32611