Radha Kumaran

Peer-Reviewed Journal and Conference Papers

You-Jin Kim, Radha Kumaran, Jingjing Luo, Tom Bullock, Barry Giesbrecht and Tobias Höllerer. 2025. On the Go with AR: Attention to Virtual and Physical Targets While Varying Augmentation Density. In Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 16 pages. pdf | link

Chengyuan Xu*, Radha Kumaran*, Noah Stier, Kangyou Yu, and Tobias Höllerer. 2024. Multimodal 3D Fusion and In-Situ Learning for Spatially Aware AI. In 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), 10 pages. pdf | link

Jiarui Zhu, Radha Kumaran, Chengyuan Xu, and Tobias Höllerer. 2023. Free-form Conversation with Human and Symbolic Avatars in Mixed Reality. In 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), 10 pages.  pdf | link 

Radha Kumaran*, You-Jin Kim*, Anne Milner, Tom Bullock, Barry Giesbrecht, and Tobias Höllerer. 2023. The Impact of Navigation Aids on Search Performance and Object Recall in Wide-Area Augmented Reality. In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 17 pages.  pdf | link 

You-Jin Kim*, Radha Kumaran*, Ehsan Sayyad, Anne Milner, Tom Bullock, Barry Giesbrecht and Tobias Höllerer. 2022. Investigating Search Among Physical and Virtual Objects Under Different Lighting Conditions. In IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 28, no. 11 (2022): 3788-3798.  pdf | link 

Yi Ding, Radha Kumaran, Tianjiao Yang, and Tobias Höllerer. 2020. Predicting Video Affect via Induced Affection in the Wild. In Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 442–451.  pdf | link 

Ramya Ramanathan, Radha Kumaran, Ram Rohan Ramanathan, Rajat Gupta, and Vishalakshi Prabhu. 2017. An Intelligent Music Player Based on Emotion Recognition. In 2017 2nd International Conference on Computational Systems and Information Technology for Sustainable Solution (CSITSS) (pp. 1-5). IEEE.  pdf | link

Short Papers, Demos, Posters and Workshops

Radha Kumaran*, Viral Niraj Doshi*, Sherry X Chen, Avinash Ajit Nargund, Tobias Höllerer, and Misha Sra. 2023. EChat: An Emotion-Aware Adaptive UI for a Messaging App. In The 36th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST ’23 Adjunct). USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 3 pages.  pdf | link

CS 8: Introduction to Computer Science

Teaching Assistant, Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall 2020, Summer 2023

Introduction to computer program development for students with little to no programming experience. Basic programming concepts, variables and expressions, data and control structures, algorithms, debugging, program design, and documentation.

EDUCATION  

PhD, Computer Science (09/2019 - Current)

University of California, Santa Barbara

Degree GPA: 4.0/4.0

Supervisor: Prof. Tobias Höllerer.

Area of Concentration: Context-Aware Mixed Reality Interfaces for Personalized Computing

BE, Computer Science and Engineering (08/2015 - 07/2019)

R V College of Engineering

Degree class: First Class with Distinction.

Supervisor: Prof. Y Narahari, Prof. Ramakanth Kumar P.

Thesis: Optimizing Multi-Armed Bandits for Internet Advertising.

GRADUATE STUDENTS

Satyam Awasthi, Vivian Ross (MS, Winter 2023)

Project: Eye Tracking Test Suite for AR Headset During Locomotion  

Jiarui Zhu (MS, Fall 2022 - Winter 2023)

Project: Interactive Human Avatars in Mixed Reality (ISMAR '23)

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

Ajay Liu, Frank Zhong, Qi Wu, Towela Phiri (Early Research Scholars Program, Fall 2023 - Summer 2024)

Viral Doshi (Summer 2022)

Project: Emotion-Aware Chat Interfaces (UIST '23 Adjunct)