Biography:

Dr. Edmond Prakash joined the Department of Computing and Mathematics in 2006 and currently serves as a Reader in Visual Computing. He received his PhD in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. After receiving his PhD, he joined the State University of New York-Stony Brook, USA and subsequently at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign as a visiting scientist. Prior to joining MMU, Dr Edmond Prakash was an Assistant Professor in Computer Science and he was also the Research Director for the gameLAB at the school of Computer Engineering at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

In 1993, Dr. Edmond Prakash received the advanced researcher scholarship from the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), New York to pursue research at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at UIUC, USA. He also received the best PhD Thesis award from IISc and a cash prize of excellence for the exceptional PhD research contribution.

Edmond's research focus is on exploring the applications of virtual reality in engineering, business, science, medicine as well as in entertainment computing. He has worked on the design and implementation of walkthroughs of proposed structures, such as buildings, automobiles, and humans. In the process he has developed new algorithms for automatically generating object hierarchies, cinematic quality rendering, volume rendering, parallel computation, human modeling and animation for virtual environments. He has also consulted and collaborated with the industry including IBM, Silicon Graphics and JP Morgan. Dr. Edmond Prakash is currently working on various issues in the context of entertainment computing, such as how to accommodate highest-quality dynamic graphics programming through inherent support for natural user interaction. His web site is at http://www.docm.mmu.ac.uk/STAFF/E.Prakash/

Dr. Edmond has published in every top journal in Computer Graphics including (IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphics, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Computers & Graphics, Computer Graphics Forum, Shape Modelling, Journal of Visualization, Imaging Science and Technology and Machine Graphics and Vision). His publications are mainly devoted to top class software prototypes, research papers and books. A major interest in teaching and research in recent years has been the future of gaming, animation, graphics, visualization and virtual reality. His main philosophy is 'Stay Active Even After Retirement'.