FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS

Professor of Practice Douglas Blackmon

Professor of Practice and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Douglas Blackmon premiered his documentary chronicling school integration in Mississippi “The Harvest,” at the Rialto Center for the Arts as part of the PBS American Experience series.

Professor of Practice Jason Drakeford and his class crafted a typeface, logo lockup and the heads-up display motion graphics used in Tom Luse’s film, “Rejuvenation.”

Professor of Practice Booker Edwards

Booker Edwards, Professor of Practice in the music industries, helped Georgia State celebrate hip-hop’s 50th anniversary by hosting a series of workshops, panel discussions and demonstrations in partnership with the Department of Africana Studies and Educational Policy Studies.

Students in Lecturer Ola Gardner’s class were able to work with occupational therapy faculty from Georgia State and the University of Georgia to utilize videos and AI to evaluate stroke victims’ therapy sessions.

Professor of Practice James Martin (left) demonstrates motion capture technology.

CMII Professors of Practice James Martin and Max Thomas co-led the Global Advanced Technology Training workshop in South Korea, exploring performance capture techniques, virtual production principles and advanced character creation and animation with participants.

Professor of Practice Jeasy Sehgal

Professor of Practice and Unreal Engine Authorized Instructor Jeasy Sehgal provided GSU faculty and staff with real-time virtual production instruction to bolster university teaching methods.

Building off the development of her course, “Music Scoring for Game Design,” Lecturer Hanna Lisa Stefansson developed a second course titled “Sound Design for Games.” The new offering covers sound design techniques for video games along with music technology.

Senior Lecturer Elizabeth Strickler

Media Entrepreneurship & Innovation Programs Director and Senior Lecturer Elizabeth Strickler delivered presentations on virtual worlds and AI at international forums, including the Futures Conference and the World Futures Studies Federation Conference.

Professor Ying Zhu (top right) discusses robotics with colleagues from the Department of Computer Science.

CMII Professor Ying Zhu joined Jonathan Shihao Ji’s Department of Defense grant to advance research in artificial intelligence, robotics and edge computing.