Brian F. Allen

@csUCLA

 
 

I’m Brian Allen (aka, Dexter), a PhD student at UCLA working in the Graphics Lab (MAGiX) and the Center for Advanced Surgical and Interventional Technology (CASIT) under the direction of Petros Faloutsos.


While in grad school, I’ve had the opportunity to work with Industrial Light + Magic R&D, where I worked on infrastructure improvements and physics-based animation tools, and also with USC’s Institute for Creative Technologies’ Mixed Reality lab, where I wrote AI tools.


Prior to heading back to school to pursue a PhD, I worked as a manager and software developer at a variety of companies, most of which are no longer around.

About Me

Research Interests

Physics-Based animation

Robotics and tele-presence

Evolutionary computation and artificial life

B. Allen, P. Faloutsos.  Complex Networks of Simple Neurons for Bipedal Locomotion.  IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, St. Louis, October 2009.  [Video-MPEG4 11MB, Slides-mov 40MB, BibTeX]


B. Allen, P. Faloutsos.  Evolved Controllers for Simulated Locomotion. 2nd Intl Workshop on Motion in Games, Zeist, November 2009.


B. Allen, B. Jordan, W. Pannell, C. Lewis, E. Dutson, P. Faloutsos.  A Laparoscopic Surgical Robot for Remote in Vivo Training. Advanced Robotics. (In Press)


B. Allen, V. Nistor, E. Dutson, G. Carman, C. Lewis, P. Faloutsos. Support Vector Machines Improve the Accuracy of Performance Evaluation of Laparoscopic Training Tasks, Surgical Endoscopy, 24(1), 170-178, January 2010.


M. Kapadia, S. Singh, B. Allen, G. Reinman, P. Faloutsos.  SteerBug: An Interactive Framework for Specifying and Detecting Steering Behaviors. ACM Siggraph/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA), New Orleans, LA, August 2009.


B. Allen, D. Chu, A. Shapiro, P. Faloutsos. On the Beat! Timing and Tension for Dynamic Characters, ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA), San Diego, CA, August 2007.

A. Shapiro, D. Chu, B. Allen, P. Faloutsos. A Dynamic Controller Toolkit. The 2nd Annual ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Video Games (Sandbox), San Diego, CA, August 2007.

B. Allen, S. Jain, P. Faloutsos, C. K. Liu. Environment-Based Physical Motion for Secondary Characters. ACM SIGGRAPH 2007 Poster, San Diego, CA, August 2007.

J. Pair, B. Allen, M. Dautricourt, A. Treskunov, M. Liewer, K. Graap, G. Reger. A Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy Application for Iraq War Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Proceedings of the IEEE Virtual Reality Conference, 2006.


V. Nistor, B. Allen, G. P. Carman, P. Faloutsos, E. Dutson. "Haptic guided tele-mentoring and video-conferencing system for laparoscopic surgery," Proceedings of the SPIE 14th International Symposium Smart Structures and Materials & Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, San Diego, CA, 18-23 March 2007.

V. Nistor, B. Allen, G. P. Carman, P. Faloutsos, E. Dutson. "Haptic guidance for laparoscopic surgery immersive training and mentoring," Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 15: in vivo, in vitro, in silico: Designing the next in Medicine, Long Beach, CA, 6-9 February 2007.


B. Allen, Y. Chushak and A. Travesset.  “Geometric Frustration in 2D Crystals,” American Physical Society Abstracts, 2005.

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