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Arnav Jhala is an
Assistant Professor in the Baskin School of
Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His research
interests lie at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and
Digital Media, particularly in the areas of Computer Games, Cinematic
Communication, and Narrative Discourse. In his dissertation research he
developed computational models of film idioms and algorithms for
automatically generating cinematic discourse. Arnav has previously
worked as an intern at the Institute for Creative Technologies at
University of Southern California where he was part of the Leaders
project developed in association with Paramount Pictures. He spent a
summer working on the America's Army: Adaptive Thinking and Leadership
game at Virtual Heroes, Inc., a leading serious games developer. Arnav
is a recipient of the Outstanding Teaching Assistant award at NCSU for
his work as the TA for the capstone projects class in game development
and has also served as the instructor for this course. Prior to
graduate school, he spent a year at the Indian Space Research
Organization (ISRO) in the Space Applications Center working on his
undergraduate senior project. Arnav holds Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in
Computer Science from the North Carolina State University.
2009
 A. Jhala and R. Michael Young, "Cinematic
Visual
Discourse: Representation, Generation, and Evaluation," (under
review) IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games.
- A. Jhala
and R. Michael Young, "Comparing Effects of Different Visualization
Strategies on Viewer Comprehension," (to appear) In Proceedings of
International Conference on
Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS09), Guimaraes, Portugal, Dec.
2009.
- M. Schwartz, H. P. Martinez, G. N. Yannakakis,
and A.
Jhala, "Investigating the Interplay between Camera Viewpoints, Game
Information, and Challenge," in Proceedings of Artificial
Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE'09), October
2009. AAAI Press.
- H. P. Martinez, A. Jhala, and G. N. Yannakakis, "Analyzing
the Impact of Camera Viewpoint on Player Psychophysiology," in
Proceedings of the Int. Conf. on Affective Computing and Intelligent
Interaction (ACII'09), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 2009.
- P. Burelli
and A. Jhala, "Dynamic Artificial Potential
Fields for Autonomous Camera Control in 3D environments", in
Proceedings of Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital
Entertainment (AIIDE'09), October 2009. AAAI Press.
- P. Burelli
and A. Jhala, "CamOn: An Autonomous Camera
Planning System", (demo) in Proceedings of Artificial Intelligence
and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE'09), October 2009. AAAI
Press. (Demonstration)
- A. Jhala
and R. Michael Young, "Evaluation of
Intelligent Camera Control Systems Based on Cognitive Models of
Comprehension," in Proceedings of the Fourth International
Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (ICFDG 09), Orlando, FL,
April 26 - 30, 2009. (short paper)
- A. Jhala
and M. van Velsen, "Challenges in Development
and Design of Interactive Narrative Authoring Systems,", in
Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Intelligent Narrative
Technologies II, Palo Alto, California, 2009.
2008
- A. Jhala, "Exploiting
Structure and Conventions of
Movie Scripts for Information Retrieval and Text Mining", in
Proceedings of the International Conference on Interactive Digital
Storytelling (ICIDS 08), Erfurt, Germany, November, 2008.
- Y. Cheong,
A. Jhala, B. Bae, and R. Michael Young, "Automatically
Generating Summary Visualizations from Game Logs", in Proceedings
of the Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital
Entertainment (AIIDE 08), Stanford, CA, October, 2008.
- A. Jhala,
C. Rawls, S. Munilla, R. Michael Young, "Longboard:
A Sketch Based Intelligent Storyboarding Tool for Creating Machinima."
FLAIRS Conference 2008: 386-390
2007
- A. Jhala, R. Michael Young, T. Buie, "A Tale of Two Classes: On
Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Games Education", 2nd
Microsoft Academic Days in Game Development Conference, Disney Wonder
Cruise Ship, 2007. (23%)
2006
- A. Jhala, Darshak
- An
Intelligent Cinematic Camera Planning System. Doctoral
Consortium paper at National Conference on Artificial Intelligence,
AAAI 2006
- A. Jhala, R. Michael Young, "Representational Requirements for a Plan
Based Approach to Automated Camera Control". n Proceedings of
the Conference on Artificial Intelligence and
Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE 06), Marina del Rey, CA,
2006:36-41
2005
- A. Jhala, R. Michael Young, "A Discourse Planning Approach to Cinematic
Camera Control for Narratives in Virtual Environments" AAAI
2005: 307-312
- A. Jhala, William H. Bares, R. Michael Young, "Towards an intelligent storyboarding tool
for 3D games", Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology
2005: 367-368
2004
- A. Gordon, M. van Lent, M. Van Velsen, P.
Carpenter, A.
Jhala, "Branching Storylines in
Virtual Reality Environments for Leadership Development", AAAI
2004: 844-851
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