Aniket Bera
Purdue UniversityAssociate Professor in Computer Science
Director: IDEAS Lab
305 N University St.
West Lafayette
IN 47907
Phone: (301) 405-4209
email: ab [at] cs.purdue.edu
Dr. Aniket Bera is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science at Purdue University. He directs the interdisciplinary research lab IDEAS (Intelligent Design for Empathetic and Augmented Systems) at Purdue, working on modeling the "human" and "social" aspects using AI in Robotics, Graphics, and Vision. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Maryland at College Park. Prior to this, he was a Research Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received his Ph.D. in 2017 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is also the founder of Project Dost. He is currently serving as the Senior Editor for IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) in the area of "Planning and Simulation" and the Conference Chair for the ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Motion, Interaction and Games (MIG 2022).
His core research interests are in Affective Computing, Computer Graphics (AR/VR, Augmented Intelligence, Multi-Agent Simulation), Social Robotics, Autonomous Agents, Cognitive modeling, and planning for intelligent characters.
He has advised and co-advised multiple M.S. and Ph.D. students. He has authored over 70+ papers, 2000+ citations and his work has won multiple awards at top Graphics/VR conferences. He also works with the University of Maryland at Baltimore Medical School to build algorithms and systems to help therapists and doctors detect mental health and social anxiety issues (AI + Mental Health). His research involves novel combinations of methods and collaborations in machine learning, computational psychology, computer graphics, and physically-based simulation to develop real-time computational models to learn human behaviors. Dr. Bera has previously worked in many research labs, including Disney Research, Intel, and the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing.
Dr. Bera's research has been featured on CBS, WIRED, Forbes, FastCompany, Times of India etc.
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Learning Unseen Emotions from Gestures via Semantically-Conditioned Zero-Shot Perception with Adversarial Autoencoders
AAAI 2022 Conference Papers
Abhishek Banerjee, Uttaran Bhattacharya, Aniket Bera
Redirected Walking in Static and Dynamic Scenes Using Visibility Polygons
TVCG and ISMAR 2021 Journal Papers Conference Papers 🏆Best Paper Award
Niall L. Williams, Aniket Bera, Dinesh Manocha
Can a Robot Trust You? A DRL-Based Approach to Trust-Driven Human-Guided Navigation
ICRA 2021 Conference Papers
Vishnu Sashank Dorbala, Arjun Srinivasan Ambalam, Aniket Bera
Text2Gestures: A Transformer-Based Network for Generating Emotive Body Gestures for Virtual Agents
IEEE VR 2020 Conference Papers 🏆Best Paper Award
Uttaran Bhattacharya, Nicholas Rewkowski, Abhishek Banerjee, Pooja Guhan, Aniket Bera, Dinesh Manocha
Multimodal and Context-Aware Emotion Perception Model with Multiplicative Fusion
IEEE Multimedia Journal Papers
Trisha Mittal, Aniket Bera, Dinesh Manocha
ARC: Alignment-based Redirection Controller for Redirected Walking in Complex Environments
TVCG and IEEE VR 2020 Journal Papers Conference Papers 🏆Best Paper Award
Niall L. Williams, Aniket Bera, Dinesh Manocha
Generating Emotive Gaits for Virtual Agents Using Affect-Based Autoregression
ISMAR 2020 Conference Papers
Uttaran Bhattacharya, Nicholas Rewkowski, Pooja Guhan, Niall L. Williams, Trisha Mittal, Aniket Bera, Dinesh Manocha
Emotions Don't Lie: A Deepfake Detection Method using Audio-Visual Affective Cues
ACM MM 2020 Conference Papers
Trisha Mittal, Uttaran Bhattacharya, Rohan Chandra, Aniket Bera, Dinesh Manocha