Lap Fai (Craig) Yu, PhD

Lap Fai (Craig) Yu, PhD

Associate Professor

College of Engineering and Computing

Other Positions:

Director

Research Theme:

Digital Technologies - Inventing new algorithms, digital techniques, and technologies

Key Interests:

Virtual Reality, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Graphics Visualization, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Computational Design, Computer Vision, Robotics, Automation

Education:

PhD, Computer Science, University of California

Research Focus

I lead the Design Computing and Extended Reality (DCXR) Group at George Mason University. I am also a core faculty member of the Center for Advancing Human-Machine Partnership at GMU. Before joining GMU, I was an Assistant Professor at UMass Boston, where I founded and directed the Graphics and Virtual Environments Lab. I was a visiting scientist at the International Design Center at MIT and a visiting scholar at the Computer Graphics Lab at Stanford. I received my Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from UCLA, where I was advised by Demetri Terzopoulos. I received my B.Eng and M.Phil. degrees in Computer Science from HKUST. I also worked at the Internet Graphics Group at Microsoft Research Asia. My lab receives generous support from the National Science Foundation, Microsoft, Google, Adobe, Nvidia, Oracle, and Wayfair.

College:

College of Engineering and Computing

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