Rawan Alghofaili
I'm a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at George Mason University working under the mentorship of Professor Lap-Fai (Craig) Yu. Prior to venturing into the world of PhD life, I received an MEng. (Master's of Engineering) in Computer Science from Cornell University and an MS (Master's of Science) from the University of Massachusetts-Boston.
In the Summer of 2020, I interned at Adobe’s Creative Intelligence Lab under the mentorship of Cuong Nguyen, Vojtěch Krs, Nathan Carr and Radomír Měch.
I was also a research intern in the Summer and Fall of 2021 at Meta Reality Labs working under the mentorship of Ben Lafreniere.
Research interests: Computational Design, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Mixed Reality, Graphics, Vision, Machine Learning and HCI.
Publications
Rawan Alghofaili, Matthew Fisher, Richard Zhang, Michal Lukáč, Lap-Fai Yu
Exploring Sketch-based Character Design Guided by Automatic Colorization.
Proceedings of Graphics Interface (GI 2021)
Biao Xie, Huimin Liu, Rawan Alghofaili, Yongqi Zhang, Yeling Jiang, Flavio Destri Lobo, Changyang Li, Wanwan Li, Haikun Huang, Mesut Akdere, Christos Mousas, Lap-Fai Yu
A Review on Virtual Reality Skill Training Applications.
Frontiers in Virtual Reality, 2021
Wei Liang, Xinzhe Yu, Rawan Alghofaili, Yining Lang, Lap-Fai Yu
Scene-Aware Behavior Synthesis for Virtual Pets in Mixed Reality.
Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2021)
Rawan Alghofaili, Michael Solah, Haikun Huang, Yasuhito Sawahata, Marc Pomplun, Lap-Fai Yu
Optimizing Visual Element Placement via Visual Attention Analysis.
IEEE Virtual Reality (VR 2019)
Rawan Alghofaili, Yasuhito Sawahata, Haikun Huang, Hsueh-Cheng Wang, Takaaki Shiratori, Lap-Fai Yu
Lost in Style: Gaze-driven Adaptive Aid for VR Navigation.
Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2019)
Academic Services
- Program Committee: ACHI (2020)
- Associate Chair: ETRA short papers (2021)
- Reviewer:
- CHI (2020-2022)
- IEEE VR journal track (2020-2022)
- IEEE VR conference track (2020, 2022)
- VRST (2020-2021)
- CHI PLAY (2020)
- CASA (2019)
- CAVW journal (2019)
- Student Volunteer: SIGGRAPH (2020)
- Workshops: TraingingXR@IEEE VR: Workshop on 3D Content Creation for Simulated Training in eXtended Reality (2020)
- Invited Talks: NHK Science & Technology Research Laboratories (2019)
Interests
Apart from doing research. In my spare time I enjoy: hiking, yoga, cooking, knitting and exploring the local rock scene.
When at home, I like to pester my cat Ada Lovelace.