Steve DiPaola - a Body of Work

~ Welcome to my simple and evolving portfolio site. ~

NEW Research Site: iVizLab.sfu.ca NEW
NEW Art Gallery Site: www.dipaola.org/gallery NEW

University Site: www.sfu.ca/~sdipaola

Projects ~ ~ ~
In Progress: Knowledge Based Painterly Rendering
AI Interactive Whale Behavior Simulation
iFace: Facial Communication ToolKit
Evolving Portrait Painters using Genetic Programming
FaceLift: Evolving Faces for The Sims
My Stanford Project Sites : Facial System, Virtual Performance

Talks ~ ~ ~
- See recent newpaper article on my work.
- Comdex '01 - The Future of Interactive Entertainment
- Siggraph '00 - Interactive Storytelling Panel
- UC Berkeley HCC '00 - Virtual Community Design
- Stanford Learning Lab '00 - Virtual Comm. Design
- Stanford PCD '99 - Interactive Character Agents
old talks ...

Recent Papers & Book Excerpts ~ ~ ~
- CAVW Journal '06 - Facial Actions: Visual Cues for Personality
- ACM '06 - Affective Communication Remapping in MusicFace
- EVA '05 - Evolving Portrait Painters Programs
- EVA Florence - Socially Expressive Communication Agents
- EVA '04 - Affective Communication Remapping in MusicFace
- Siggraph '04 - Emergent Learning in Collaborative Virt. Worlds
- Wiamis '04 - Face as a Multimedia Object
- Siggraph '03 - Social Metaphor-based 3D Virtual Environment
- Info Viz '02 - FaceSpace: A Facial Domain Toolkit
- Siggraph '02 - Exploring Face Space
- Skigraph '02 - 3D Virtual Env.. for Social Telepresence
- Siggraph '99 - Design Approach to Virtual Comm.
- 1998 "Avatars!", by Damer - book excerpt, cover
more papers & book excerpts ...

Research Site: iVizLab.sfu.ca
University Site: www.sfu.ca/~sdipaola

Steve DiPaola has a long history of working on the cutting edge of new technologies and design paradigms. As an expert in emerging interactive art techniques and virtual characters, he is an invited speaker at major conferences including Siggraph, Internet World, Comdex, CHI, and the Institute for the Future. See List of Talks.

He has worked at the following innovation driven institutions in leadership roles:

Teach/Research, in this innovative program in Vancouver's University, SFU 2001 - present
Assoc. Professor, School of Interactive Arts and Tehcnology - Simon Fraser University

Co-Founded this 3D Facial Technology Start-up, Apeerance 2001 - 2002
Chief Technology Officer, (parttime) at this San Francisco High-tech Company

Developed/taught courses to Phd, Grad and Undergrads, Stanford Univ 2000 - 2002
Visiting Faculty, Dept. of Art - Stanford Univ. Digital Art Center

Start-up creating a next generation, broadband platform, Muse 2000 - 2001
VP, Creative Development - Directs creative development and strategy.

Saatchi & Saatchi's standalone innovation arm, Darwin Digital 1997 - 1999
Creative Director & Founder (SF Office) - internet-based strategic digital communication work.

Highend group of Virtual Communities company, Communities.com 1999 - 2000
Director of OnLive Development - 3d and audio based virtual communities . 1994 - 1997

The Advanced Technology Group of the game company, Electronic Arts 1992 - 1994
Managing Creative Director - managed a group pioneering CD-ROM multimedia titles.

Graphics and animation R&D institute, NYIT Computer Graphics Lab 1984 - 1992
Research Scientist/Designer - was one of the foremost 3D R&D labs in the film & graphics industry.

For more details, see his resume section or go right to his portfolio for visual examples of his work.