Pavan Turaga

Keynote on “Trends in generative AI” at DokuTech 2023.
AME 294 Martial Arts and Motion Capture
ASU Founders’ Day Award Ceremony, 2025
We are part of a NSF ExpandAI award connecting ASU with UT-Austin’s Institute for Foundations of Machine Learning (IFML) on the topic of pervasive systems.
WACV 2025 paper `Deep Geometric Moments Promote Shape Consistency in Text-to-3D Generation’
Improving Shape Awareness and Interpretability in Deep Networks Using Geometric Moments, Best paper at DLGC Workshop 2023, in conjunction with IEEE CVPR.
RagaAI webinar on LLM evaluation and product launch, March 2024
MesquiteMocap: web-based open-source, low-cost motion capture solutions using IMU devices and javascript.
The Air Around Us: network of IoT sculptures to actionize the impact of air quality in the Phoenix metro area deployed in local museums.
CVPR 2023 Art Track Spotlight Video, made with VQ-GAN and depth-estimation.

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 have received several awards and grants through their career.

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Positions

Founding Director, The GAME School (ASU), 2025 – present
Director, School of Arts, Media, and Engineering (ASU), 2021 – 2025
Professor, Schools of AME + ECEE (ASU), 2022 – present
Interim Director, School of Arts, Media, and Engineering (AME), 2019 – 2021
Associate Professor, Schools of AME + ECEE, 2017 – 2022
Assistant Professor, Schools of AME + ECEE, 2011 – 2017

Professional Preparation
Research Associate, Center for Automation Research (UMD), 2009 – 2011
Ph.D. University of Maryland, College Park, 2004 – 2009
B.Tech Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, 2000 – 2004

Affiliations

Health Solutions Ambassador, College of Health Solutions (CHS)
Center for Sensor, Signal, Information Processing (SenSIP)
Center for Human, Artificial Intelligence, and Robot Teaming (CHART)
Center for Innovation in Healthy and Resilient Aging (CIHRA)
Simon A Levin Mathematical, Computational and Modeling Sciences Center (MCMSC)
Cognitive Science Program
Center for Wireless Information Systems and Computational Architectures (WISCA)

ASU Graduate faculty privileges

Data Science, Analytics and Engienering (DSAE) PhD Program
Computer Engineering (Computer Systems) PhD (Endorsed to Chair)
Computer Engineering (Electrical Engineering) PhD (Endorsed to Chair)
Electrical Engineering PhD (Endorsed to Chair)
Systems Engineering PhD (Endorsed to Chair)
Media Arts and Sciences PhD (Endorsed to Chair)
Exploration Systems Design PhD (Endorsed as Member)

We gratefully acknowledge the support received by several federal and industry grants over the years in support of our research. Current and prior support has included NSF, NIH, DARPA, DOE, ARO, ONR, Adobe Intel, Google ATAP, Raytheon, NVIDIA.

Media Articles

ASU News, Entrepreneurs, researchers among 2025 Founders’ Day awardees, Jan 17th 2025.

ASU News, Team wins $10M XPRIZE Rainforest competition for novel solution, Nov 19th, 2024.

University of Maryland, College Park, ECE Announces Recipients of 2024 Distinguished Alumni Awards, Nov 15th, 2024.

ASU News, ASU researchers receive $2.8M grant to harness the power of AI for health, Jul 8th 2024.

Diversity in Action, Diverse Voices, May/June 2024.

ASU News, A massive unveiling of creativity, Mar 22nd 2024.

ASU News, Summit explores digital trust in the accelerating age of AI, Oct 25th 2023.

AZ Big Media, Here’s how experts see the role of AI in higher education, July 5th 2023.

ASU News, Predicting future pandemic patterns, Nov 18th 2022.

ASU News, ASU professor wins $1M DoD grant to boost AI technology, Apr 26th 2022.

ASU News, New SUEDE shoes apply smart tech to ankle injury prevention, Apr 6th 2022.