Curriculum Vitae  


Wallace Lages
Assistant Professor, School of Visual Arts
Virginia Tech

Research and Teaching Interests

• Human Computer Interfaces
• Games
  
• Computer Art
  
• Computer Graphics

Appointments

2018 to present

​​2010 to 2018


2013 to 2014


2010 to 2014
 
 
2011 to 2014


 
2012 to 2013
 
 
2010 to 2012

Assistant Professor  -  School of Visual Arts - Virginia Tech
​
​Assistant Professor   - Department of Photography, Performing Arts and Cinema - School of Fine Arts - Minas Gerais Federal University (on leave from 2014 to 2018)

Coordinator - Digital Production Laboratory- School of Fine Arts - Minas Gerais Federal University

Member – Undergraduate Research Evaluation Committee - School of Fine Arts - Minas Gerais Federal University

Sub Coordinator - LAPES - Laboratory of Research and Experimentation - Rodrigo Melo Franco de
Andrade Foundation, Brazil

Chair –Infrastructure Committee - Animated Cinema and Digital Arts course - Minas Gerais Federal University.

Department Co-Chair - Department of Photography, Performing Arts and Cinema - Minas Gerais Federal University

Education

2018
 
 
 
 
2008






2005





1998-2002



1996

PhD in Computer Science and Applications,
Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech
Thesis: Walk-Centric User Interfaces for Mobile AR.
Advisor: Dr. Doug Bowman
 
Master in Computer Science,
Department of Computer Science, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Dissertation: A parallel architecture for rendering multiple points of view.
Supervisor: Dr. Dorgival Olavo Guedes
CAPES Fellowship

Bachelor in Computer Science,
Department of Computer Science, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Title: Using IP cameras in Computer Vision
Supervisor: Dr. Mario Montenegro Campos
CNPq Fellowship


Electrical Engineering,
School of Engineering, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Unfinished undergraduate course

Electronics Technician,
Technical School of Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil

Research Experience

2014 - Present
 
 
 
 
2010 - Present





Oct 2006 to
Jan 2009


 
Jan 2004 to
Jan 2005





Jan 2002 to
Feb 2003

Graduate Research Assistant
3DI group, Center for Human Computer Interaction, Virginia Tech
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Doug Bowman
Research on interaction techniques, augmented, and virtual reality
 
Associate Researcher - 1maginari0
Research group of the Department of Photography, Performing Arts and Cinema, UFMG, Brazil
Group Leader: Prof. Dr. Francisco Marinho
Research on computer art and games.

Graduate Researcher - AIVITS Project
DCV - Deep Computing Center / EVA -Virtual Architecture Studio, UFMG, Brazil
Project Leader: Prof. Dra. Maria Lucia Mallard
Research and development of software (C++, OpenGL, GLSL) and interfaces (wii) for a stereoscopic environment for the teaching of architecture.

Undergraduate Researcher - Sensornet Project
Verlab – Robotics and Computer Vision Laboratory - Department of Computer Science, UFMG, Brazil
Advisor: Professor Dr. Mario Campos
Mobile robot enhancements (Pioneer) to perform sensor nodes deployment. Software development (C++ and Java), hardware (Eagle, PSpice) and firmware (MSP and PIC assembly). Reverse engineering of an IP camera protocol.

Undergraduate Researcher - NAWI Project
RAST– Student Radio Astronomy Group - Department of Physics of UFMG, Brazil.
Advisor: Professor Dr. Wagner Corradi
Radio telescope system design. Development of network protocols (C++) and graphical user interfaces (Photon). Design and development of hardware (Eagle, Pspice) and firmware (MSP430) for remote data acquisition units.

Industry Experience

2014 - Present




2010 - Present




Out 2006 to 2009





Jan 2004 to 2005



Jan 2002 to Feb 2003


  

Founder, COO and Board Member
Ilusis Interactive Graphics, Brazil
 
Freelance software developer – Holdline Audio Tecnologia LTDA
Firmware development for a micro controlled telephony system (Dallas DSC80C390/400). Software architecture design, development of audio reproduction, cryptography and network routines.

Torre dos Mil Nexos – Personal Project
Development of a C++ engine with support for Lua scripts using Direct3D. Development of client/server code using ACE.

Distúrbio Sofware Interativo – CNPQ ITI-1A scholarship
Software for real-time rendering, character animation and scene edition. Server design and implementation of protocols on Unix and Win32. Development team coordination. My first video game studio.

Programmer, ATAN Sistemas de Automação
Research and development of software for industrial automation. Development of a RTU (remote terminal unity) simulator (QNX). Improvements of IHM (QNX Windows).

Producer and Programmer – Peixis
General coordination, game design and programming of a PC game. 

Teaching Experience at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais 

2010 - 2014 

Interactive Installations – Undergraduate Course
Introduction to electricity and electronics, installation design, embedded programming, projection mapping, interactive music and 3D interfaces (tools: Arduino, Kinect, Wiimote, Resolume, Pd, Open Frameworks, Processing).
 
Processing – Undergraduate Course
Introduction to programming with Java (variables, conditionals, loops, arrays), Processing framework and OOP.

Games I – Undergraduate Course
Analysis, conception and design of games. Game design, level design, character design, balancing, narratives, pitches.

Games II – Undergraduate Course
Design and development of game prototypes. Theory on project planning, scene graph, rendering, collision detection, FSM, adversarial search and pathfinding.


Atelier: Digital Art I & II – Undergraduate Course
Project supervision: conception, design, implementation and critical analysis. Most projects involve physical computing, computer games or interactive narratives.
 
Introduction to Interactive Narratives – Undergraduate Course
Split course. My contribution: workshop on location-based narratives. Tool: Managana.
​

Research Projects

View Management and User Interface Optimization for Wide-Area Mobile Augmented Reality
Ongoing
 
This research is a collaborative effort by Virginia Tech and University of California, Santa Barbara. The goal is to improve mobile AR view and user interfaces to providing decision makers in the field with increased situation awareness.
Principal Investigator: Doug Bowman
 
Validation of MR Simulation and the Effect of Display Fidelity
Ongoing
 
This research is a collaborative effort by Virginia Tech and Brown University. The goal is to investigate the use of displays with higher levels of fidelity, as well as natural and innovative 3D interaction techniques, to allow scientists to view and analyze volume datasets without prior segmentation.
Principal Investigator: Doug Bowman
 
Book-games for mobile devices and the book-game go to the school
2013-2014
Jointly with the National Institute for Research of Water, Minerals and Biodiversity (INCT Acqua). The goal of this project is the research and development of new languages for digital book-games with applications on entertainment and education. Grant from the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development.
Principal Investigator: Francisco Marinho

Using 3d cameras in cut out animation of characters
2013-2014
The goal of this project is to develop and evaluate a system to speed up the production of cut-out animation for animated series. The idea is to create flexible and virtual manipulator using 3D Cameras. Grant from Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais
Principal Investigator: Francisco Marinho

Development of new research methodologies for the Interactive Space of Life Sciences
2012-2014
Develop new methodologies to assess learning in the context of scientific dissemination spaces.
Principal Investigator: Fabrício Fernandino
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Publications

​Refereed Papers in Journals
​
Lages, W. S., Cordeiro, C. S., and Guedes, D.; “Performance Analysis of a Parallel Multi-view Rendering Architecture Using Light Fields” in The Visual Computer, October, p. 25-10, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 2009.

Silva, A. R., Lages, W. S., and Chaimowicz, L.; “Boids That See: Using Self-Occlusion For Simulating Large Groups on GPUs” in Computers in Entertainment, v. 7, p. 51, 2009.

Refereed Papers in Conference Proceedings

R. Yu, Lages, W. S., Nabiyouni, M., Ray, B., Kondur, N., Chandrashekar, V., and Bowman, D. A., “Bookshelf and Bird: Enabling Real Walking in Large VR Spaces”, in 2017 IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces (3DUI), 2017.

Lages, W. S., Cordeiro, C. S., and Guedes, D.; “A Parallel Multi-View Rendering Architecture” in
XXI Brazilian Symposium on Computer Graphics and Image Processing. (One of the 8 best papers of SIBGRAPI 2008)

Silva, A. R. S., Lages, W. S., and Chaimowicz, L.; “Improving Boids Algorithm in GPU using Estimated Self Occlusion” in VII Brazilian Symposium on Games and Digital Entertainment - SBGames 2008. (One of the 15 best papers on the Computing Track)

Arantes, L., Dubiela, A., Magalhães, P., and Lages, W.; “O Projeto Visual do Jogo Peixis” in VI Brazilian Symposium on Games and Digital Entertainment - SBGames 2007.

Refereed Extended Abstracts in Conference Proceedings

Lages, W. S., Gobira, P., & Marinho, F. (2017, June). “Structural Coupling on Creative Interfaces”. In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Creativity and Cognition (pp. 252-256). ACM.
 
Lages, W. S., Nabiyouni, M., & Arantes, L. (2016, October). “Krinkle Cube: A Collaborative VR Game Using Natural Interaction”. In Proceedings of the 2016 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play Companion Extended Abstracts (pp. 189-196). ACM.
 
Lages, W. S., Laha, B., Miller, W., Novotny, J., Socha, J. J., Laidlaw, D. H., and Doug A. Bowman; “Effects of field of regard and stereoscopy and the Validity of MR simulation for Visual Analysis of scientific data,” poster abstract accepted in the Proceedings of the IEEE Virtual Reality, 2016, Greenville, USA.
 
Lages, W. S., Arango, G. A., Laidlaw D. H., Socha J. J, and Bowman, D. A.; “Designing Capsule, an Input Device to Support the Manipulation of Biological Datasets” poster abstract accepted in Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces 2016, Greenville, USA.
Lages, W. S. “Ray, Camera, Action! A Technique for Collaborative 3D Manipulation” poster abstract accepted in the Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces 2016, Greenville, USA.
 
Hines, K., Lages, W. S., Somasundaram, N., and Martin, T.; “Protecting Workers with Smart E-Vests” in Adjunct Proceedings of the XIX International Symposium on Wearable Computers, Osaka, September 7-11, 2015, p. 101-104.
 
Lages, W. S., Nabiyouni. M., Tibau. J., and Bowman, D. A.;  “Interval Player: Designing a Virtual Musical Instrument Using In-Air Gestures” in poster abstract in Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces (3DUI), 2015, p. 203-204.
 
Moreira, L. G. R. and Lages, W.; “Organic Tile Textures Using Fragment Shader” in Proceedings of the XVII Brazilian Symposium on Games and Digital Entertainment. 2014. p 1013-1016 – 3 best short papers.S

Salgado, A. I., Vilas-Boas, A., Leite, C. M., Haibara, A., Mota, T., Silva, J. H., Tavares, J. C., Avelar, G., Gino, M., Lages, W. S., Marinho, F., Fernandino, F., and Gobira P., “Construction of an Interactive Space of Life Sciences: Finding a Way Through the Difficult Dialogue Between Scientists and Artists” in 13th International Public Communication of Science and Technology Conference. 2014

Artworks

2017
 
 
 
 
 
2013
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 






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2012
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
2011
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
2010
 
 
 
 
2009
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
2007

Better Hands
Lages, W. S., Gobira, P., Marinho F.
Interactive installation, ArtScience Museum
Singapore
Original concept and implementation.
 
Coração
Gandhi, K., Lages, W. S., Bethonico, J., and Gobira, P.
Interactive Installation, Espaço Interativo de Ciências da Vida.
Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Original concept, technical coordination and interaction design.
 
Nervos
Marinho, F., Lages, W. S., F, Gobira, P., and Travenzoti. I.
Interactive Installation, Espaço Interativo de Ciências da Vida.
Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Interaction design and technical coordination.
 
Pulo
Lages, W. S., Ferreira F., Marinho, F, Gobira, P., and Travenzoti. I.
Interactive Installation, Espaço Interativo de Ciências da Vida
Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Original concept, interaction design and technical coordination.

Flexibilidade
Lages, W. S., Ferreira F., Marinho, F, Gobira, P., and Travenzoti. I.
Interactive Installation, Espaço Interativo de Ciências da Vida.
Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Original concept, interaction design and technical coordination.
 
Equilíbrio
Travenzoti. I., Lages, W. S., Marinho, F, and Gobira, P.
EICV – Espaço Interativo de Ciências da Vida.
Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Original concept, technical coordination/development and interaction design.
 
Digestão
Junqueira, L., Lages, W. S., Travenzoti. I., Marinho, F., and Gobira, P.
Interactive Installation, Espaço Interativo de Ciências da Vida.
Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Original concept and interaction design.
 
Corrida da Reprodução
Interactive Installation, Espaço Interativo de Ciências da Vida.
Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Hausen, F., Coutinho, M., Lages, W. S., Travenzoti. I., Marinho, and F, Gobira, P.
Original concept, technical coordination/development and interaction design.
 
Mesa Interativa Padre Toledo
Interactive Installation, Museu Casa Padre Toledo
Tiradentes, Brazil.
Technical coordination/development and interaction design.
 
Domestic Symphony
Interactive Installation
Mendes, T. and Lages, W. S.
Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
 
Trem de Cataguases
Lages, W. S. 
Interactive Installation, exhibited at 43° UFMG Winter Festival
Cataguases, Brazil.
 
Visual Poems
Clear, S. and Lages, W. S. 
Interactive Installation, exhibited at 43° UFMG Winter Festival
Cataguases, Brazil.
 
 
Mesa Interativa da Vale  – Mobile Interactive Installation
Silva, A., Marinho, F., and Lages, W. S.
Exhibited several cities including Belém, Paragominas, Paraopebas, Brazil.
Technical coordination/development.
 
Fire
Lages, W. S. 
Interactive Installation. Bienal Zero – Bienal Universitária de Arte
Curated by Fabricio Fernandino.
Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
 
Piracema
Silva, A., Lages, W. S., and Marinho, F; 
Interactive Installation. Espaço UFMG do conhecimento, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Espaço Israel Pinheiro, Brasília, Brazil.
Original concept, interaction design.
 
Dança da Chuva
Silva, A., Marinho, F, and Lages, W. S.
Interactive Installation. Espaço UFMG do conhecimento, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Espaço Israel Pinheiro, Brasília, Brazil.
Technical coordination.
 
Ecologia Interativa - Pictobiobots
Interactive Installation. Espaço UFMG do conhecimento, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Marinho, F. C. C., Bérgamo, M., Lages, W. S., and Bethônico, J. M.
Technical coordination/development.
 
Palavrador 2.0 Openbook
A.; Marinho, F., Moraes, G., Bethonico, J., and Lages, W. S.
Interactive Installation. SIGGRAPH Art Gallery
San Diego, USA.
Electronics and interface programming.

Advisees

​2014
 
 
 
 
2013
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
2012

Young Talents scholarship: Eduardo Resende, Luis Gustavo Moreira
INCT Acqua RA: Otávio Borges, Ítalo Tranvezotti, Letícia Cherchiglia, Lucas Junqueira (co-supervised with Prof. Francisco Marinho and Prof. Pablo Gobira).
Teaching scholarship: Clara Pimentel, Amanda Murta
 
Bachelor's Thesis: Lucas Gonçalves, Visual Arts, 2013; Luciana Vilhena, Visual Arts, 2013
Undergraduate research scholarship: Rafagan Mariz
Voluntary: Camila Assunção, Marcelle Gonçalves
PIEQ scholarship: Alex Filho, João Marcos Maciel
 
Research and Outreach scholarship: Fabrício Ferreira, Flávio Hausen, Kayran Domingos, Ítalo Travenzotti, Rafael Cacique, Marcos Coutinho.  (co-supervised with Prof. Francisco Marinho).
 
Research and Outreach scholarship: Alvaro Ribeiro, Arthur Camara de Souza, João Guilherme Brant, Leticia Cherchiglia, Lucas Mello, Kayran Domingos, Luciano Alvim. (co-supervised with Prof. Francisco Marinho).
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Other Professional Activities and Service

​2013


2010-2014


2009-2010


2009


2009


2008



2008



2006 

​Desafio Brasil (National Business Plan Competition)
Mentor and judge

Brazilian Symposium on Computer Games and Digital Entertainment
Member of the program committee - Computing Track

Brazilian Game Developers Association (ABRAGAMES)
Vice President of Institutional Relations

I Simpósio Santa Catarina Games – SCGAMES 2009
Member of the program committee

VIII Brazilian Symposium on Computer Games and Digital Entertainment – SBGames 2009
Computing Track Technical Program Committee

VII Brazilian Symposium on Computer Games and Digital Entertainment – SBGames 2008
Member of the organizing committee.
Co-chair of technical posters

Realtime Rendering, Chapter 3 - Image Based Effects, Second Edition,
Tomas Akenine-Moller, Eric Haines e Naty Hoffman, A.K Peters, 2008
Revisor.

Computer Graphics and Game Technology Group / DCC-UFMG
Research and study group on computer graphics and games
Co-Founder

Conference Paper Reviewing

​IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces 
IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality
Brazilian Symposium on Computer Games and Digital Entertainment
Brazilian Computer Society Conference on Graphics, Patterns and Images

Invited Talks

​10/21/2016



11/11/2013



06/10/2013



02/21/2009



11/10/2008



10/28/2009




10/26/2009



10/22/2008


10/05/2008 

​Guest speaker, “Dissolving the Interface Between Humans and Machines”
Second Seminar on Digital Arts
University of the State of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Guest speaker, “Computer Graphics and its applications on engineering and entertainment”
3rd Seminar on Computer Graphics and Scientific Computing
Santa Catarina Federal Institute, Florianópolis, Brazil

Invited instructor, “Game Design Workshop”
Third Summer Festival of UFMG
UFMG – School of Architecture, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Guest speaker, “Exploring Frontiers: Innovation for growth”
Brazilian Symposium on Computer Games and Digital Entertainment 2008 –Industry Track
PUC-MG, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Guest speaker, “New Rendering Techniques”
Second Games and Animation Week
PUC-MG, Campus São Gabriel/BH, Brazil

Guest speaker, “Challenges on Game Development”
Entertainment, games and animation week.
PUC-MG, Campus São Gabriel/BH, Brazil

Guest speaker, “Game Development”
First Technology Week
UNIVERSO - Universidade Salgado de Oliveira / BH, Brazil

Guest speaker, “Electronic Games and Computer Science”
10 Computing Week
UDESC -Centro de Ciências Tecnológicas / Joinville, Brazil

Speaker, “The Importance of Being Linear (GPU Gems 3)”
3 Ciclo de Palestras do CGGT
UFMG, Departamento de Ciência da Computação / BH, Brazil

Competitive Selection Awards

2017



2006



2008



​2008

​Second Place: uDev Challenge
Usens Inc
Prize: US$ 25,000

​Winner: JogosBR Contest 2006
Ministério da Cultura / Abragames
Best Game Project

Finalist: Idea to Product Latin America 2008
Fundação Getúlio Vargas / The University of Texas at Austin
Best 4 Business Plan

Semi Finalist: GV-Intel Challenge 2008
Fundação Getúlio Vargas / Intel Capital
Best 16 Business Plan

Research and Development Grants

​2017


2014



2010

Virginia Tech Institute for Creativity, Arts and Technology. Krinkle Cube
- Student Seed Grant. Written with Mahdi Nabiyouni. US $500.

FINEP (Federal level Brazilian science and technology funding agency)
Natural Control of Animated Photorealistic Characters. I wrote most of the proposal.
~US$ 470,000

FAPEMIG (State level Brazilian funding agency) – Using Time-of-Flight Cameras for Robust Tracking. I wrote most of the proposal and oversaw the project development.
US$ 28,444