The Sloan Research fellowship was awarded to two Computer Science researchers for 2021, Prof. Grosse and dgp’s Prof. Grossman. Congratulations Prof. Grossman! More details about the award can be found here.
DGP NEWS
Prof. Jacobson awarded Sloan Fellowship
February 17, 2022
This year’s 2022 Sloan Research Fellowship award recipients include dgp’s Prof. Alec Jacobson! In UofT’s Computer Science dept. both Prof. Jacobson and Prof. Duvenaud were chosen for this award. Computer Science’s website has a write-up of the award here.
Prof. Grossman receives tenure
June 6, 2021
Congratulations to Prof. Grossman on receiving tenure and his promotion to Associate Professor!
Prof. Wigdor promoted to Full Professor
June 5, 2021
Congratulations to Prof. Wigdor, who has been promoted to full Professor! In addition to his work at dgp, Prof. Wigdor is also the Director of the Facebook Reality Labs Research in Toronto.
Prof. Levin receives CHCCS/SCDHM Early Career Researcher Award
June 3, 2021
Congrats to Prof. Levin for winning the CHCCS/SCDHM Graphics Interface Early Career Researcher Award for 2021! This award is given to outstanding early career faculty members in the fields related to the Graphics Interface conference. Prof. Levin is being recognized … read more
Prof. Grossman awarded Sloan Research Fellowship
March 8, 2021
The Sloan Research fellowship was awarded to two Computer Science researchers for 2021, Prof. Grosse and dgp’s Prof. Grossman. Congratulations Prof. Grossman! More details about the award can be found here.
Undergrad Research at dgp
February 5, 2021
The dgp often collaborates with undergrad students to tackle interesting research projects. One of this past year’s NSERC USRA and UTEA AWARDS recipients is Jiayi Eris Zhang, who worked on research into Complementary Dynamics that was submitted to Siggraph Asia … read more
Prof. Grossman awarded Steacie Fellowship
November 10, 2020
Congratulations to Prof. Grossman on being recognized for his early career achievements with an E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship! Some of the research highlighted in award included AI drone navigation and wearable sensors to capture intricate hand grip and touch movements … read more
Paper acceptance to CSCW 2020!
July 25, 2020
Congratulations to Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat, Toha Toriq, and Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed. Their paper titled, “Persuasion, Habit, and Sustainability: Designing for and Lessons from Islamic Religious Culture in Bangladesh,” has been accepted to CSCW 2020!
Priyank Chandra from the Third Space research group at DGP will be joining UofT iSchool as an Assistant Professor!
July 20, 2020
The appointment starts from January, 2021. Congratulations, Priyank Chandra!
Yasaman Rohanifar Awarded Ontario Graduate Scholarship
July 12, 2020
Congratulations to Yasaman for being awarded a 2020-2021 Ontario Graduate Scholarship. The OGS is awarded to students for academic achievement, so the congrats again on a job well done Yasaman!