Pavan Turaga | ASU Search

Pavan Turaga | ASU Search
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
[email protected]
Phone:
480-965-3704
STAUFFER B-257 950 S. Forest Mall
Tempe, AZ 85287
Mail code:
5802
Campus:
Tempe
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 Summer
Course Number
Course Title
EEE 790
Reading and Conference
EEE 690
Reading and Conference
EEE 590
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 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
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 599
Thesis
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 795
Continuing Registration
EEE 590
Reading and Conference
EEE 795
Continuing Registration
EEE 599
Thesis
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 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
Course Number
Course Title
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 795
Continuing Registration
EEE 599
Thesis
EEE 792
Research
EEE 799
Dissertation
EEE 595
Continuing Registration
CSE 790
Reading and Conference
EEE 792
Research
EEE 592
Research
AME 799
Dissertation
EEE 595
Continuing Registration
EEE 590
Reading and Conference
CEN 790
Reading and Conference
EEE 595
Continuing Registration
EEE 795
Continuing Registration
CEN 599
Thesis
CSE 792
Research
CSE 580
Practicum
CEN 792
Research
CEN 799
Dissertation
EEE 590
Reading and Conference
EEE 590
Reading and Conference
EEE 592
Research
AME 792
Research
EEE 792
Research
CEN 590
Reading and Conference
EEE 790
Reading and Conference
EEE 790
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
MAE 592
Research
MAE 592
Research
AME 592
Research
AME 434
Machine Learning/Media Arts
AME 534
Machine Learning/Media Arts
EEE 499
Individualized Instruction
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.
Expertise Areas
Artificial Intelligence
Arts, Media and Engineering
Assistive and Rehabilitative Technologies
Autonomous Technologies
Computer Vision
Digital and Media Art
Geometry and Topology
Health and Well-Being