Pavan Turaga
Director and Professor,
The GAME School
Other ASU affiliations
Health Solutions Ambassador,
College of Health Solutions
Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts
School of Technology for Public Health
School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering
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Phone: 480-965-3704
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STAUFFER B-257 950 S. Forest Mall Tempe, AZ 85287
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Mail code: 5802Campus: Tempe
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Long Bio
Pavan Turaga is the Founding Director of The GAME School at Arizona State University (2025). In this role they oversee a transdisciplinary group of faculty and degree programs, spanning gaming, esports, interactive, immersive and AI-enabled media creation.
They hold a Joint Professor appointment between The GAME School and Electrical Engineering (ECEE). Their teaching portfolio in this role has included classes like Machine Learning for Media Arts, Machine Vision and Pattern Recognition, Martial Arts and Motion Capture, and Creating Games with Artificial Intelligence.
To advance research, they created the Geometric Media Lab (Linkedin Page), where the work spans tools for representation drawn from statistics, optimization, geometry, and topology, and applied to the areas of computer vision, machine learning, immersive technologies, health-analytics, public understanding of science, arts and performance, and more. Their work included extensive collaborations with applied mathematicians, statisticians, health-scientists, and media-arts that informs their work and increases its impact.
They received the ASU Founders' Day Award for Research Excellence (2025), the Distinguished Alumni Award from Electrical Engineering at University of Maryland, College Park (2024), National Science Foundation's CAREER award in 2015, a Best Paper award from the Deep Learning meets Geometric Computing (DLGC) workshop in 2023, a Best Paper Honorable Mention from IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) in 2021, and a Best Paper Award in 2015 from the Computational Cameras and Displays (CCD) Workshop. Details of awards and grants.
Education
- Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland-College Park 2009
- B.Tech. Electronics and Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India 2004
Research Website URL
Google Scholar URL
Research Interests
Machine learning, Deep-learning, Riemannian geometry, Topological methods, Computer Vision, Statistical and Geometric modeling, Modeling human activity, Multi-modal pattern analysis, Applications in mobile health, portable systems for rehab, experiential media-systems.
Research Group
Publications
Research Activity
Courses
2026 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| EEE 790 | Reading and Conference |
| EEE 592 | Research |
| EEE 493 | Honors Thesis |
| EEE 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| EEE 690 | Reading and Conference |
| EEE 595 | Continuing Registration |
| EEE 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| CSE 792 | Research |
| CSE 795 | Continuing Registration |
| CSE 799 | Dissertation |
| EEE 599 | Thesis |
| EEE 792 | Research |
| EEE 799 | Dissertation |
| EEE 595 | Continuing Registration |
| CSE 584 | Internship |
| EEE 792 | Research |
| EEE 592 | Research |
| EEE 590 | Reading and Conference |
| EEE 795 | Continuing Registration |
| EEE 590 | Reading and Conference |
| EEE 590 | Reading and Conference |
| EEE 590 | Reading and Conference |
| EEE 592 | Research |
| EEE 790 | Reading and Conference |
| EEE 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| EEE 493 | Honors Thesis |
| EEE 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| MAE 593 | Applied Project |
| AME 792 | Research |
| EEE 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| CSE 593 | Applied Project |
| HDA 294 | Special Topics |
| HDA 294 | Special Topics |
| HDA 294 | Special Topics |
| AME 799 | Dissertation |
| AME 590 | Reading And Conference |
2025 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| AME 792 | Research |
| EEE 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| EEE 493 | Honors Thesis |
| EEE 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| EEE 590 | Reading and Conference |
| EEE 595 | Continuing Registration |
| EEE 599 | Thesis |
| EEE 690 | Reading and Conference |
| EEE 790 | Reading and Conference |
| EEE 792 | Research |
| EEE 795 | Continuing Registration |
| EEE 799 | Dissertation |
| CSE 792 | Research |
| CSE 795 | Continuing Registration |
| CSE 799 | Dissertation |
| EEE 592 | Research |
| EEE 590 | Reading and Conference |
| CSE 580 | Practicum |
| AME 590 | Reading And Conference |
| EEE 792 | Research |
| EEE 590 | Reading and Conference |
| EEE 799 | Dissertation |
| EEE 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| EEE 493 | Honors Thesis |
| CSE 584 | Internship |
| EEE 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| EEE 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| AME 799 | Dissertation |
| AME 294 | Special Topics |
| AME 294 | Special Topics |
| AME 499 | Individualized Instruction |
2025 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| EEE 590 | Reading and Conference |
| EEE 599 | Thesis |
| EEE 690 | Reading and Conference |
| EEE 790 | Reading and Conference |
| EEE 795 | Continuing Registration |
| EEE 792 | Research |
| EEE 799 | Dissertation |
| EEE 595 | Continuing Registration |
| EEE 599 | Thesis |
| EEE 592 | Research |
| EEE 592 | Research |
| EEE 595 | Continuing Registration |
| EEE 792 | Research |
| EEE 795 | Continuing Registration |
| EEE 799 | Dissertation |
| EEE 590 | Reading and Conference |
| EEE 590 | Reading and Conference |
| EEE 592 | Research |
| EEE 599 | Thesis |
| CSE 584 | Internship |
2025 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| EEE 590 | Reading and Conference |
| EEE 493 | Honors Thesis |
| EEE 790 | Reading and Conference |
| EEE 592 | Research |
| EEE 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| EEE 690 | Reading and Conference |
| EEE 595 | Continuing Registration |
| EEE 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| CSE 792 | Research |
| CSE 795 | Continuing Registration |
| CSE 799 | Dissertation |
| EEE 599 | Thesis |
| EEE 792 | Research |
| EEE 799 | Dissertation |
| EEE 595 | Continuing Registration |
| CSE 790 | Reading and Conference |
| CSE 584 | Internship |
| EEE 792 | Research |
| EEE 592 | Research |
| AME 799 | Dissertation |
| EEE 590 | Reading and Conference |
| EEE 795 | Continuing Registration |
| CSE 580 | Practicum |
| EEE 590 | Reading and Conference |
| EEE 590 | Reading and Conference |
| EEE 592 | Research |
| AME 792 | Research |
| EEE 790 | Reading and Conference |
| EEE 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| EEE 493 | Honors Thesis |
| EEE 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| MAE 593 | Applied Project |
| AME 792 | Research |
| AME 494 | Special Topics |
| AME 598 | Special Topics |
| EEE 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| AME 294 | Special Topics |
| AME 590 | Reading And Conference |
2024 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| EEE 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| EEE 493 | Honors Thesis |
| EEE 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| EEE 590 | Reading and Conference |
| EEE 595 | Continuing Registration |
| EEE 599 | Thesis |
| EEE 690 | Reading and Conference |
| EEE 790 | Reading and Conference |
| EEE 792 | Research |
| EEE 795 | Continuing Registration |
| EEE 799 | Dissertation |
| CSE 792 | Research |
| CSE 795 | Continuing Registration |
| EEE 592 | Research |
| AME 590 | Reading And Conference |
| AME 792 | Research |
| CEN 792 | Research |
| EEE 792 | Research |
| AME 484 | Internship |
| CEN 790 | Reading and Conference |
| CEN 799 | Dissertation |
| AME 101 | ASU Media Arts & Sciences Exp |
| AME 101 | ASU Media Arts & Sciences Exp |
| CEN 795 | Continuing Registration |
| EEE 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| EEE 493 | Honors Thesis |
| CSE 792 | Research |
| EEE 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| EEE 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| AME 101 | ASU Media Arts & Sciences Exp |
| AME 799 | Dissertation |
| AME 593 | Applied Project |
2024 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| EEE 799 | Dissertation |
| EEE 795 | Continuing Registration |
| EEE 792 | Research |
| EEE 595 | Continuing Registration |
| EEE 599 | Thesis |
| EEE 592 | Research |
| CSE 792 | Research |
| CSE 584 | Internship |
| CEN 584 | Internship |
| EEE 592 | Research |
| EEE 595 | Continuing Registration |
| EEE 599 | Thesis |
| EEE 792 | Research |
| EEE 795 | Continuing Registration |
| EEE 799 | Dissertation |
| EEE 590 | Reading and Conference |
| EEE 590 | Reading and Conference |
| EEE 592 | Research |
| EEE 599 | Thesis |
| CSE 792 | Research |
| CEN 799 | Dissertation |
| AME 799 | Dissertation |
2024 Spring
2023 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| EEE 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| EEE 493 | Honors Thesis |
| EEE 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| EEE 590 | Reading and Conference |
| EEE 595 | Continuing Registration |
| EEE 599 | Thesis |
| EEE 690 | Reading and Conference |
| EEE 790 | Reading and Conference |
| EEE 792 | Research |
| EEE 795 | Continuing Registration |
| EEE 799 | Dissertation |
| CSE 792 | Research |
| EEE 592 | Research |
| AME 590 | Reading And Conference |
| AME 792 | Research |
| CEN 792 | Research |
| CEN 599 | Thesis |
| EEE 792 | Research |
| EEE 592 | Research |
| AME 484 | Internship |
| CEN 790 | Reading and Conference |
| CEN 799 | Dissertation |
| AME 101 | ASU Media Arts & Sciences Exp |
| AME 101 | ASU Media Arts & Sciences Exp |
| EEE 590 | Reading and Conference |
| AME 792 | Research |
| CEN 795 | Continuing Registration |
| EEE 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| EEE 493 | Honors Thesis |
| CSE 792 | Research |
| EEE 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| EEE 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| AME 101 | ASU Media Arts & Sciences Exp |
2023 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| EEE 790 | Reading and Conference |
| EEE 690 | Reading and Conference |
| EEE 590 | Reading and Conference |
| EEE 792 | Research |
| EEE 799 | Dissertation |
| EEE 595 | Continuing Registration |
| EEE 599 | Thesis |
| EEE 592 | Research |
| CSE 792 | Research |
| CEN 584 | Internship |
| EEE 592 | Research |
| EEE 595 | Continuing Registration |
| EEE 599 | Thesis |
| EEE 792 | Research |
| EEE 795 | Continuing Registration |
| EEE 799 | Dissertation |
| EEE 590 | Reading and Conference |
| EEE 592 | Research |
| EEE 599 | Thesis |
| EEE 792 | Research |
| CSE 792 | Research |
| AME 590 | Reading And Conference |
| AME 792 | Research |
| CEN 799 | Dissertation |
2023 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| EEE 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| EEE 790 | Reading and Conference |
| EEE 592 | Research |
| EEE 493 | Honors Thesis |
| EEE 690 | Reading and Conference |
| EEE 595 | Continuing Registration |
| EEE 599 | Thesis |
| EEE 792 | Research |
| EEE 799 | Dissertation |
| EEE 595 | Continuing Registration |
| EEE 792 | Research |
| AME 799 | Dissertation |
| EEE 590 | Reading and Conference |
| CEN 790 | Reading and Conference |
| EEE 795 | Continuing Registration |
| CEN 599 | Thesis |
| CSE 792 | Research |
| CSE 580 | Practicum |
| CEN 792 | Research |
| CEN 799 | Dissertation |
| AME 792 | Research |
| CEN 590 | Reading and Conference |
| EEE 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| EEE 493 | Honors Thesis |
| AME 593 | Applied Project |
| EEE 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| MAE 593 | Applied Project |
| AME 792 | Research |
| AME 494 | Special Topics |
| AME 598 | Special Topics |
| AME 792 | Research |
2022 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| EEE 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| EEE 493 | Honors Thesis |
| EEE 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| EEE 590 | Reading and Conference |
| EEE 595 | Continuing Registration |
| EEE 599 | Thesis |
| EEE 690 | Reading and Conference |
| EEE 790 | Reading and Conference |
| EEE 792 | Research |
| EEE 795 | Continuing Registration |
| EEE 799 | Dissertation |
| EEE 592 | Research |
| AME 590 | Reading And Conference |
| AME 792 | Research |
| CEN 792 | Research |
| CEN 599 | Thesis |
| AME 484 | Internship |
| CEN 790 | Reading and Conference |
| CEN 799 | Dissertation |
| AME 101 | ASU Digital Culture Experience |
| AME 101 | ASU Digital Culture Experience |
| AME 101 | ASU Digital Culture Experience |
| AME 792 | Research |
| CEN 795 | Continuing Registration |
| EEE 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| EEE 493 | Honors Thesis |
| EEE 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| EEE 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| AME 593 | Applied Project |
| AME 101 | ASU Digital Culture Experience |
| AME 590 | Reading And Conference |
2022 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| EEE 790 | Reading and Conference |
| EEE 592 | Research |
| EEE 595 | Continuing Registration |
| EEE 599 | Thesis |
| EEE 792 | Research |
| EEE 795 | Continuing Registration |
| EEE 799 | Dissertation |
| EEE 590 | Reading and Conference |
| AME 590 | Reading And Conference |
| AME 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| AME 792 | Research |
2022 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| EEE 790 | Reading and Conference |
| EEE 592 | Research |
| EEE 690 | Reading and Conference |
| EEE 595 | Continuing Registration |
| EEE 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| EEE 599 | Thesis |
| EEE 792 | Research |
| EEE 799 | Dissertation |
| EEE 595 | Continuing Registration |
| AME 799 | Dissertation |
| EEE 590 | Reading and Conference |
| CEN 790 | Reading and Conference |
| EEE 795 | Continuing Registration |
| CEN 599 | Thesis |
| AME 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| CEN 792 | Research |
| AME 792 | Research |
| CEN 590 | Reading and Conference |
| EEE 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| AME 590 | Reading And Conference |
| EEE 493 | Honors Thesis |
| AME 593 | Applied Project |
| EEE 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| AME 598 | Special Topics |
| AME 792 | Research |
| AME 494 | Special Topics |
| AME 595 | Continuing Registration |
2021 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| EEE 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| EEE 493 | Honors Thesis |
| EEE 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| EEE 590 | Reading and Conference |
| EEE 595 | Continuing Registration |
| EEE 599 | Thesis |
| EEE 690 | Reading and Conference |
| EEE 790 | Reading and Conference |
| EEE 792 | Research |
| EEE 795 | Continuing Registration |
| EEE 799 | Dissertation |
| EEE 592 | Research |
| AME 590 | Reading And Conference |
| AME 792 | Research |
| CEN 792 | Research |
| CEN 599 | Thesis |
| AME 484 | Internship |
| CEN 595 | Continuing Registration |
| CEN 790 | Reading and Conference |
| CEN 799 | Dissertation |
| CEN 795 | Continuing Registration |
| EEE 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| EEE 493 | Honors Thesis |
| EEE 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| EEE 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| AME 593 | Applied Project |
| AME 590 | Reading And Conference |
| EEE 515 | Machine Vision and Pattern Rec |
2021 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| EEE 690 | Reading and Conference |
| EEE 590 | Reading and Conference |
| EEE 790 | Reading and Conference |
| CEN 584 | Internship |
| EEE 592 | Research |
| EEE 595 | Continuing Registration |
| EEE 599 | Thesis |
| EEE 792 | Research |
| EEE 795 | Continuing Registration |
| EEE 799 | Dissertation |
| EEE 590 | Reading and Conference |
| AME 590 | Reading And Conference |
| AME 499 | Individualized Instruction |
2021 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| EEE 790 | Reading and Conference |
| EEE 592 | Research |
| EEE 493 | Honors Thesis |
| EEE 690 | Reading and Conference |
| EEE 595 | Continuing Registration |
| EEE 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| EEE 599 | Thesis |
| EEE 792 | Research |
| EEE 799 | Dissertation |
| EEE 595 | Continuing Registration |
| AME 799 | Dissertation |
| EEE 590 | Reading and Conference |
| CEN 790 | Reading and Conference |
| EEE 795 | Continuing Registration |
| CEN 599 | Thesis |
| CEN 792 | Research |
| CEN 590 | Reading and Conference |
| EEE 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| EEE 493 | Honors Thesis |
| AME 593 | Applied Project |
| EEE 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| AME 493 | Honors Thesis |
| AME 494 | Special Topics |
| AME 598 | Special Topics |
| AME 792 | Research |
Honors / Awards
- ASU Founders’ Day Award, for Research Excellence, 2025.
- Distinguished Alumni Award, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, 2024.
- 2024 X-Prize (Rainforest Challenge), as part of Team Limelight.
- Spotlight paper (Poly-INR, top 10% of accepted papers or top 2.5% of submissions), CVPR 2023.
- Best paper award at the Deep Learning meets Geometric Computing (DLGC) workshop 2023.
- Best paper honorable mention at the Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) 2021.
- Outstanding Reviewer Mention, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2019.
- Fulton Top 5% teaching award, 2019.
- National Science Foundation, CAREER award 2015.
- Best paper award, Computational Cameras and Displays Workshop, 2015.
- IEEE Outstanding Faculty, Phoenix Section, 2016.
- Distinguished Dissertation Award, University of Maryland, 2009.
- NSF Travel Award for CVPR Doctoral Consortium, 2009.
- Emerging Leader in Multimedia, IBM Corporation, 2008.
- Institute Silver Medal, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, 2004.
Editorships
- Associate editor, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (2018-21).
- Associate editor, Elsevier Pattern Recognition Journal (2016-19).
- Special issue guest-editor for ACM Transactions on Multimedia (TOMM) on “Representation, Analysis and Recognition of 3D Humans”, 2017.
- Special issue guest-editor for Elsevier Pattern Recognition special issue on “Discriminative Feature Learning from Big Data for Visual Recognition”, Aug 2014-Aug 2015
Professional Associations
IEEE, IEEE Signal Processing Society, IEEE Computer Society
Service
- Senior Program Committee Member, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2019.
- Technical Area Chair, Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers 2019.
- Area Chair, IEEE Face and Gesture (FG) 2019.
- Area chair for “Computer Vision and Robot Vision” track for IEEE Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR)} 2016 and 2018.
- Founding workshop co-chair on “Differential Geometry in Computer Vision and Machine Learning (Diff-CVML)”, held in conjunction with the British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) Sep 2015, and CVPR 2016-18.
- Local arrangements chair for “IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)” 2016.
- Co-chair of poster session on “Computational Imaging for Healthcare”, held at the IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP) Jan 2015.
- Panel-chair for “Video Summarization” at the joint NSF-FBI-DARPA workshop on Frontiers in Image and Video Analysis, Jan 2014.
- Co-delivered tutorial on “Video-Based Face Recognition”, at the IEEE Fifth International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems (BTAS), September 2012.
- Co-delivered tutorial on “Differential Geometric techniques for Shape and Activity Analysis”, at IEEE CVPR, Rhode Island, June 2012. This is a premier computer vision venue.
- Chair of IEEE Phoenix Chapter of Signal Processing and Communication (SP-COM) April 2012-August 2015.
- Convener of Research Council, Herberger Institute for Design and Arts (2017-18).
- Chaired several joint HIDA and Fulton faculty search committees.