Sensory Perception & Interaction Research Group

University of British Columbia

Aiden Smith

Aiden Smith is a third-year student pursuing a major in Computer Science and Physics. He is currently volunteering at the lab to work on using twisted-strand actuators to produce organic motion.

Year Departed: 
2018

Zefan Sramek

Zefan Sramek is a graduate of the Integrated Engineering program at the University of British Columbia. He is interested in technology for enhancing collaboration, virtual reality, and human realtionships with technology.

He is currently working on a project with Laura Cang and Paul Bucci to create a model of emotional transitions using EEG. 

Year Departed: 
2018

Lena Podina

Lena is a third year Honours Computer Science student. She is doing a USRA this summer, and is working on the Magic Pen with Soheil Kianzad and his supervisor Prof. Karon MacLean.

Year Departed: 
2018

Jessica Ip

Jessica holds a bachelor's degree in Cognitive Systems from UBC. At SPIN, she has worked on the Haptipedia project alongside Dr. Hasti Seifi, Ashutosh Agrawal, John Sastrillo, and the MPI-IS team in the department of Haptic Intelligence.

Year Departed: 
2020

Ashutosh Agrawal

Ashutosh is a pre-final year undergraduate student at Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India. Specializing in HCI/d, his primary areas of interest include User Experience Research and Interaction Design. He's visiting SPIN this summer to work on the Haptipedia project with Dr. Hasti Seifi and Jessica Ip.

Year Departed: 
2018

John Sastrillo

John is a 3rd Year Undergraduate Student pursuing an Honours Degree in Computer Science. He will be going for an 8-month internship with Trulioo beginning September 2018.

At SPIN, John is working on the Haptipedia project with Dr. Hasti Seifi on the development of an API to cross-reference and extract metadata from haptic device research papers.

Year Departed: 
2018

Qianqian Feng

Qian's research interest lies in the intersection of the machine learning, HCI, and neuroscience. She's generally interested in examining the brain, machine intelligence, and the possibility of bridging the two areas. At SPIN, she focuses mainly on studying emotion response, its labeling and classification from EEG data. In her spare time, she enjoys learning new languages (the newest one being ASL), biking, and occasionally bang on a piano keyboard.

Year Departed: 
2021

Drishtti Rawat

drishtti.rawat@alumni.ubc.ca

Drishtti Rawat is an undergraduate student pursuing a Bachelor in Behavioural Neuroscience (B.Sc.) at UBC. She is curious about brains from the cognitive and biological perspectives to understand behaviour.

She is currently working with Laura Cang and Paul Bucci on the Interactive Affect Models via Video Games study to create a model of emotional transitions using EEG.

 

Year Departed: 
2019

Tyler Malloy

tylerjmalloy@gmail.com

Tyler is a graduating student from UBC in Cognitive Systems and Philosophy, interested in the topics of cognitive modelling, artificial intelligence and human perception and action.

Current projects include:

EEG emotion modelling: Processing and analyzing EEG data to classify participant’s emotional states.

Gelly sensor in use: Running participants through tiral studies, analyzing results from experiments, asisting wrinting paper. 

In August 2018 Tyler will begin his PhD at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy New York and will work on research in human perception and cognitive modelling.

 

 

Year Departed: 
2018

Laura Rodgers

Year Departed: 
2019