I am a senior lecturer (tenured assistant professor in other systems) at the School of Computer Science, University of Adelaide. My main research interest is in utilizing emerging technologies to design interactive AI systems that seamlessly collaborate with knowledge workers. Currently, my research projects focus on spatial computing and human-centered AI in healthcare. I am a CI of the IMAGENDO Project, which won the 2023 Australian Museum Eureka Prize (the “Oscars” of Australian science) for using AI for endometriosis diagnosis. I am also part of the leadership team for the Augmenting Ability CRC.
Before joining Adelaide, I had the honor of working with Prof. Patrick Baudisch (HPI), Prof. Takeo Igarashi (U of Tokyo), Prof CT Lin (UTS), and Dr. Li-Yi Wei (Adobe Research) across various research fields including Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Graphics, Brain-Computer Interface, and AI/ML.
Recent activities
- Feb 2025: The IMAGENDO team was awarded the AEA Ignite Grant (~$500k)!
- Feb 2025: Dileepa’s paper on contrastive learning for ordinal ranking got accepted to CVPR 2025
- Feb 2025: Will serve on the jury committee for SIGGRAPH 2025 posters
- Jan 2025: 2 papers about learning and training in VR were accepted to CHI 2025
- Dec 2024: The IMAGENDO team was awared an NHMRC idea project (10% success rate, ~$2M)!
- July 2024: Will serve as an AC for VR 2025
- July 2024: Will serve as an AC for CHI 2025
- June 2024: Served on the jury committee for SIGGRAPH 2024 Poster