I am a senior lecturer (tenured assistant professor in other systems) at the School of Computer Science, University of Adelaide. Before joining Adelaide, I had the honor of working with Prof. Patrick Baudisch (HPI), Prof. Takeo Igarashi (U of Tokyo), Prof CT Lin (UTS), and Dr. Li-Yi Wei (Adobe Research) across various research fields including Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Graphics, and AI/ML.
My research mission is to augment human capabilities by engineering human-centred AI systems. I pursue this mission by actively exploring emerging technologies to build novel interactive AI systems that empower and collaborate effectively with knowledge workers. This hands-on pursuit has led to my leadership roles in large interdisciplinary teams, including serving as the U of Adelaide research lead for the Augmenting Ability CRC and as the human-AI interface lead for the Eureka Prize-winning, MRFF-funded IMAGENDO Project. These shaped my exploration of human-AI interaction through three evolving paradigms: AI as Assistant, AI as Collaborator, and AI as Oracle. Please see my research statement for more detail.
Recent activities
- Apr 2025: Will serve as an AC (Health) for CHI 2026
- Feb 2025: The IMAGENDO team was awarded the AEA Ignite Grant (~$500k)!
- Feb 2025: Dileepa’s paper on contrastive learning for ordinal ranking got accepted to CVPR 2025
- Feb 2025: Will serve on the jury committee for SIGGRAPH 2025 posters
- Jan 2025: 2 papers about learning and training in VR were accepted to CHI 2025
- Dec 2024: The IMAGENDO team was awared an NHMRC idea project (10% success rate, ~$2M)!
- July 2024: Will serve as an AC for VR 2025
- July 2024: Will serve as an AC (Interaction with Device) for CHI 2025
- June 2024: Served on the jury committee for SIGGRAPH 2024 Poster