Stephen Guy

Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies for Computer Science, Department of Computer Science & Engineering

Contact

sjguy@umn.edu

612-625-3368

5-225F Kenneth H. Keller Hall
200 Union Street Se
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Stephen Guy

Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies for Computer Science, Department of Computer Science & Engineering

Research

Research Interests:

Human-Computer Interaction

Guy's research areas focus on motion planning, predictive simulations, and human behavioral analysis. He focuses in particular on approaches to these problems that leverage large-scale data analysis, optimization, and machine learning. He is particularly interested in cross-disciplinary applications of this work to a variety of real-world domains including robotics, video games, virtual reality, and medicine.

Research Areas
Human-Centered Computing

Current Research
Google Scholar
Applied Motion Lab

Ph.D. Graduates
Zahra Forootaninia (2022; co-advised with Rahul Narain); Tiannan Chen (2021); Nick Sohre (2021); Bilal Kartal (2016); Julio Godoy (2016; co-advised with Maria Gini).

Recent News

CS&E professor researches successful smiles

Biography

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill (2012)
B.S. in Computer Engineering, University of Virginia (2006)

Professional Background

Stephen J. Guy joined the Department of Computer Science & Engineering as an assistant professor in 2012 before being promoted to an associate professor in 2018. He also serves as the director of graduate studies. Guy received his M.S. (2009) and Ph.D. (2012) in computer science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a member of ACM, IEEE, the IEEE Computer Society, and the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. In 2018, Guy received the Charles E. Bowers Faculty Teaching Award.

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Teaching

Publications & Awards

Honors and Awards

2018: College of Science and Engineering - Charles E. Bowers Faculty Teaching Award

Selected Grants
EAGER: Uncertainty-aware Planning for Robot Navigation in Human Environments
Guy, S. J.; National Science Foundation; 9/1/17 - 8/31/20

CHS-Small: Transforming the Architectural Design Review Process through Collaborative Embodiment in HMD-based Immersive Virtual Environments
V. Interrante, S. J. Guy, L. Anderson; National Science Foundation; 9/2015 - 8/2020