Niall L. Williams

I am a PhD student in computer science at the University of Maryland, College Park. I am working in the GAMMA lab under the supervision of Dr. Dinesh Manocha and Dr. Aniket Bera. My research interests involve virtual/augmented reality, computer graphics, human perception, and robotics. For my dissertation, I am developing robust methods to enable exploration of large virtual environments in arbitrary physical environments using natural walking in VR. To this end, I use techniques from visual perception, robot motion planning, computational geometry, and statistical modeling to develop rigorous algorithms for steering users through unseen physical environments.