Author: jaime@ruizlab.org
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Michael Perez Defends His PhD Dissertation
The lab is proud to announce that Michael Perez has successfully defended his PhD dissertation, “Toward Deployable Action Understanding for Real-Time Intelligent Systems: System Integration, Benchmarking, and Efficient Temporal Modeling.” Congratulations, Dr. Perez! Michael’s research tackles a central challenge in computer vision: how to understand human activity from long, continuous video in real time, without…
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Rodrigo Calvo Successfully Defends Thesis
Rodrigo Calvo successfully defended his PhD dissertation on the design of companion virtual agents, uncovering how conversational memory, self-disclosure, and social configuration shape trust and engagement in human-AI relationships. He will join Weber State University in Utah as an instructor.
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Accepted Paper to ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems highlighted by CISE dept
A paper co-authored by Dr. Ruiz and his collaborators has been featured on the CISE Webpage
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Celebrating a Milestone: Dr. Alex Barquero’s Dissertation Defense
We are thrilled to announce that Alex Barquero has successfully defended his doctoral dissertation, titled: “Guidance Reimagined: Understanding the Design, Development, and Users’ Perception of Mixed Reality Context-Aware Task Guidance Systems.”
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Project with UCSD and CMU Funded as Part of DARPA’s ECOLE Program
A project titled Concept-centric Representation, Learning, Reasoning, and Interaction (CReLeRI) has received over $4 million as part of DARPA’s Environment-Driven Conceptual Learning (ECOLE) Program. This project will be led by Dr. Zhiting Hu (UCSD) and will include collaborations with Eric Xing (CMU) and Jun-Yan Zhu (CMU) and Daisy Wang (UF). The Ruiz Lab will be…