Prof. Dr. Soraia Raupp Musse

PUCRS – FACIN – PPGCC

Main topic of interest: To integrate Computer graphics and computer vision in applications including virtual humans

Contact Information:

¨ Phone (office): +55 51 33538609

¨ Fax: +55 51 33203621

¨ Email: soraia.musse@pucrs.br

¨ Address:

PUCRS – Computing Science Department

Graduate Course in Computer Science
Av. Ipiranga, 6681 - Building 32 - Room 609
90619-900 - Porto Alegre - RS - Brazil

Scientific information:

¨ Click here to see my publications or here to my CV (in Portuguese).

¨ Google scholar

¨ Current H-index (query="S R Musse"): 15

¨ DBLP

Short Bio:

I am actually a professor and researcher at PPGCC, PUCRS (a private University in the South of Brazil).

I finished my BSc course in Computer Science at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), in December 1989, and the MSc in Computer Science at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (all in Portuguese), in July 1994. Both courses were undertaken in Porto Alegre, Brazil. I got my Ph.D. degree at École Politechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland) - VRLAB, under supervision of Prof. Daniel Thalmann, where I worked mainly with Crowd Simulation.

Research Activities:

My current research is in the area of Crowd Simulation,
Virtual Human Agents, Behavioral Modeling and Computer
Vision. Actually I’m coordinator of some research projects in these areas.

And here to know more about my book with Daniel Thalmann (Crowd Simulation, published by Springer-Verlag).

Actually I’m coordinator of VHLAB (Virtual Human

Simulation Lab) where we develop research projects on
computer graphics and computer vision.

The most important actually are: RBV, SeRVer and VisComp  which are respectively supported by FINEP, CNPq, and HP Brazil. In addition, we are part of INCT-SEC.

Some researchers whose collaborate with referred projects: Prof. Dr. Cláudio Jung (UNISINOS), Prof. Dr. Léo Pini Magalhães (UNICAMP), Prof. Dr. Roberto César Marcondes Júnior (USP), Prof. Dr. Adriano Werhli (FURG), Prof. Dr. Marcelo Cohen (PUCRS), Prof. Maurício Gehling (UNISINOS), among others.

I’m supervising following students:

· PhD students:

¨ Adriana Braun (2nd year)

¨ Fernando Pinho Marson (3nd year)

¨ Júlio Cezar Jacques Júnior (3nd year)

¨ Leandro Dihl (2nd year)

¨ Rossana Queiroz (1st year)

· Master students:

¨ Humberto Souto Jr. (2nd year)

¨ Juliano Lucas Moreira -> Should finish until March/2010

¨ Rossana Queiroz -> Should finish until March/2010

¨ Vinícius Cassol (2nd year)

¨ Henry Braun (Just starting 1st year J)

¨ Volmar Oliveira (Just starting 1st year J)

· Undergraduate students:

Marcos Eich

Mateus Vendramini

Rafael Hocevar

Lucas Martini

· Others:

MSc. Luiz Carlos Cunha (Manager of RBV Project)

Anderson Silva (Manager of CPCA)

MSc. Maurício Gehling (Designer)

MSc. Marcelo Paravisi (Scientific collaboration)

Click here to know past students whose were supervised by me.

Professional Activities:

Currently, I´m president of Special Interest Group in Games and Digital Entertainment of Brazilian Computer Society.

In 2009, I’m involved in the following conferences/workshops:

SIBGRAPI 2009 (Member of PC)

CGI 2009 (Member of PC)

SBGames 2009 (President of SIG and member of PC)

SVR 2009 (Member of PC)

CASA 2009 (Member of PC)

Teaching Activities (in portuguese) :

Undergraduate Course:

2010/1 – Seminários em Computação

2009/2 – Computação Gráfica

Graduate Courses:

2010/1 – Computer Animation (in portuguese)

2009/2 – Simulação Gráfica