Michael Neff

Ph.D. Candidate Graduate!

Dynamic Graphics Project

University of Toronto

I am currently an assistant professor at the University of California, Davis .

Research Interests

My current research is focused on developing tools and techniques that will allow animators to create more realistic and expressive character animation.  I am interested in most things to do with expressive movement, as well as many other areas of computer animation and computer graphics.  My previous research focused on modeling explosions and brittle fracture.

Publications

• publication list 
• animations

Teaching

• CSC 148:  Introduction to Computer Science (Summer 2005)
• Eng and Soc 3y3:  The Culture of Technology (McMaster, Fall 2004)
• Eng and Soc 3z3:  Preventive Engineering:  Environmental Perspectives (McMaster, Spring 2003,  Spring 2004 and Spring 2005)
• 418 Introduction to Computer Graphics (Fall 2002)
• A website on the C language developed while teaching in Kenya

Other Things of Interest

• Africa
• Photography
• International development organizations I've been involved with
  • Canadian Crossroads International
  • Engineers Without Borders
• Massey College