Radha Kumaran
PhD Candidate in the Four Eyes Lab at the UCSB Computer Science department, advised by Professor Tobias Höllerer. I have an MS in Computer Science from UCSB, and a BE in Computer Science and Engineering from R V College of Engineering.
I work in human-computer interaction, primarily in the areas of affective computing and mixed reality. I'm interested in developing emotion- and cognition-aware personal computing interfaces that can adapt to user and environment context, to enable seamless interactions in always-on personal computing.
Publications
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
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
*indicates equal contribution.
Teaching
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.
CS 176A: Introduction to Computer Communication Networks
Teaching Assistant, Fall 2019
Basic concepts in networking, the OSI model, error detection codes, flow control, routing, medium access control, and high-speed networks.
Academic Service
ORGANIZING/VOLUNTEERING
UCSB PhD Application Support Program, Volunteer reviewer
ISMAR '23, '24, Student volunteer
UCSB WiCS '22-'24, Vice President (Research)
REVIEWING
TVCG '24, ISS '24, SUI '24, CHI '24, IEEEVR '23, VRST '24 '23, ISMAR '24 '23, CHI LBW '23
Experience
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.
EMPLOYMENT
Research Intern (01/2019 - 06/2019)
Indian Institute of Science, Department of Computer Science and Automation
Research area: Multi-Armed Bandits for Internet Advertising.
Intern (05/2018 - 07/2018)
IBM India
Research area: Banking Customer Spend Analysis and Forecasting.
Mentoring
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)
HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
Anika Sikka, Woyu Wang (Research Mentorship Program, Summer 2022)