Service – Brandon Haworth, PhD

Professional Activities

Editorial

June 2024 – Present: Editor-in-chief of the Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society (CHCCS) / Société canadienne du dialogue humain-machine (SCDHM)
02/2020 – Present: Associate Editor of Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds Journal

Academic Faculty & Department Committees

August 2024 – Present: Member, Outreach Committee, Department of Computer Science, University of Victoria
 01/2023 – Present: Honours Advisor, Department of Computer Science, University of Victoria
05/2023 – Present: Member (Research Co-lead) Hiring Committee, SSHRC Tier 2 Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Emergent Digital Arts Practices, Department of Visual Arts, University of Victoria
11/2021 – Present: Member, Strategic Plan Working Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Victoria
02/2022 – 06/2022: Member Sub-Area Hiring Committee, Fairness, Ethics, Accountability, Transparency, Interpretability, Theory of data privacy, Department of Computer Science, University of Victoria
03/2021 – 06/2021: Chair Sub-Area Hiring Committee, Fairness/Social Aspects/Equity in Artificial Intelligence, Department of Computer Science, University of Victoria
10/2018 – 04/2019: Graduate Student Representative, NSERC Create Program in Data Analytics and Visualization, York University
2019: Graduate Student Representative, York University Faculty of Graduate Studies Committee on Broadening the Dissertation

Academic Thesis and Examination Committees

December 2022 – Present: Supervisory Committee Member, Mackenzie Judson, University of Victoria, MSc Thesis, Civil Engineering
03/2022 – Present: Supervisory Committee Member, Nafiseh Izadyar, University of Victoria, Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science
08/2024: Chair, MSc Thesis Oral Examination, University of Victoria, Jessica (Yijia) Li,
07/2023 – 04/2024: Supervisory Committee Member, Todd Charter, University of Victoria, MASc Thesis, Electrical and Computer Engineering
04/2024: External Examiner, MASc Oral Examination, University of Victoria, Liam Jowett-Lockwood
06/2023 – 08/2023: Supervisory Committee Member, Sanchitha Kuppusami, University of Victoria, MSc Thesis, Computer Science
06/2023: Chair, MSc Non-thesis Oral Examination, University of Victoria, Nirav Galani
08/2022: Chair, MSc Non-thesis Oral Examination, University of Victoria, Suyin Pan
11/2021: External Examiner, MSc Oral Examination, University of Victoria, Jordie Shier
12/2020: External Examiner, PhD Oral Examination, Rutgers University, Vahid Azizi

Industrial/Academic Research Proposal Reviews

August 2024: Reviewer, Mitacs Accelerate Proposal
06/2024 (x4): Internal Reviewer, University of Victoria, Aspiration and Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships
01/2024: External Reviewer, NSERC Discovery Grants
09/2023: Reviewer, Mitacs Accelerate Proposal
12/2022: External Reviewer, NSERC Discovery Grants
07/2022: Review Committee Member, CFI College Fund Proposal
10/2021: Internal Reviewer, Department of Computer Science, University of Victoria, NSERC Discovery Grant Proposal
07/2021: Reviewer, Mitacs Accelerate Proposal

Industrial/Academic Awards Reviews

January 2024: Governor General Silver Medal Award Adjudicator (Internal CS Department)
October 2021: Reviewer, NSERC Arthur B. McDonald Fellowship

Conference Organizing/Executive Committees

October 2023 – June 2024: Technical Program Chair Graphics, Graphics Interface 2024 (GI 2024)
08/2023 – 06/2024: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Simulation conference track Co-Chair, Annual Modeling and Simulation Conference 2024 (ANNSIM 2024)
06/2022 – 06/2023: Workshops, Courses, Posters, and Demos Co-Chair, Graphics Interface 2023 (GI 2023)

Conference Session Chair

September 2022: ACM Symposium on Applied Perception 2022, Hands and Interaction session
10/2021: 16^th International Symposium on Visual Computing, Pattern Recognition session
04/2021: 12^th annual Symposium on Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design, Collaborative Design session

Conference Program/Scientific Committees

2024: 17^th Annual ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Motion, Interaction and Games (MIG 2024)
2024 (x2): 19^th International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC 2024)
2023 (x4): The 38^th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-24), Demonstrations Track
2023 (x3): 16^th Annual ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Motion, Interaction and Games (MIG 2023)
2023 (x1): 18^th International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC 2023)
2023 (x2): 36^th International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2023)
2023 (x4): 22^nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems 2023 (AAMAS 2023), Demo Track
2023 (x3): Annual Modeling and Simulation Conference (ANNSIM 2023), 14^th annual Symposium on Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design (SimAUD 2023) track
- Received the Outstanding Reviewer recognition for ANNSIM’23 PC Service (1 of 4, out of 235 reviewers) from the Society for Modeling and Simulation International (SCS).
2023 (x2): 49^th Annual Graphics Interface (GI 2023)
2023 (x5): 20^th biannual Computer Aided Architectural Design Futures 2023 (CAAD Futures 2023)
2022 (x2): 15^th Annual ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Motion, Interaction and Games (MIG 2022)
2022 (x2): 13^th annual Symposium on Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design (SimAUD 2022)
2022: 17^th International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC 2022)
2022 (x4): 21^st International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems 2022 (AAMAS 2022), Demo Track
2021 (x3): 14^th Annual ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Motion, Interaction and Games (MIG 2021)
2021 (x2): 16^th International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC 2021)
2021 (x2): 19^th biannual Computer Aided Architectural Design Futures 2021 (CAAD Futures 2021)
2021 (x4): 12^th annual Symposium on Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design (SimAUD 2021)
2021 (x2): 29^th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Workshop on Neural Cognitive Modeling of Humans and Environments (IJCAI 2021)
2020 (x2): 13^th annual ACM SIGGRAPH conference on Motion, Interaction, and Games 2020 (MIG 2020)
2020 (x2): 15^th International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC 2020)
2019 (x5): 12^th annual ACM SIGGRAPH conference on Motion, Interaction, and Games 2019 (MIG 2019)
2019 (x2): 14^th International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC 2019)
2018 (x3): 11^th annual ACM SIGGRAPH conference on Motion, Interaction, and Games 2018 (MIG 2018)

Invited Peer Reviews

Journals

2024 – present (x2): Developments in the Built Environment
2021 – present (x4): IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG)
2021 – present (x5): IEEE Transactions on Games
2020 – present (x1): Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
2020 – present (x1): Journal of Computational Science
2018 – present (x5): Computers & Graphics Journal (CAG)
2018 – present (x2): Simulation & Gaming (SAG)
2016 – present (x4): Computer Graphics Forum (CGF)
2015 – present (x9): Computer Animation & Virtual Worlds Journal (CAVW)
2013 – present (x21): The Visual Computer Journal (TVCJ)

Conferences (separate from PC membership above)

2023 (x1): SIGGRAPH Asia 2023
2021 (x1): Eurographics 2022
2021 (x2): ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2022)
2020 (x1): 34^th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2021)
2019 (x2): ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA 2019)
2019 (x1): 32^nd Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2019)
2019 (x1): Eurographics 2019
2019 (x1): IEEE VR 2019
2018 (x2): SIGGRAPH Asia 2018
2018 (x1): ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA 2018)
2018 (x1): SIGGRAPH 2018
2018 (x1): 31^st Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2018)
2018 (x1): Eurographics (EG 2018)
2017 (x2): SIGGRAPH Asia 2017
2017 (x1): ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA 2017)
2017 (x2): 30^th Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2017)
2017 (x2): SIGGRAPH 2017
2017 (x2): IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2017)
2017 (x1): ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2017)
2016 (x1): 24^th Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (Pacific Graphics 2016)
2016 (x1): SIGGRAPH Asia 2016
2016 (x2): SIGGRAPH 2016
2016 (x2): ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems – Late Breaking Works (CHI 2016)
2015 (x1): 8^th International ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Motion in Games (MIG 2015)
2015 (x1): ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA 2015)
2014 (x1): 14^th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2014)
2014 (x1): 7^th International ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Motion in Games (MIG 2014)

Workshops, Panels, and Public Engagement

“Beyond Data: AI-Enabled Human Modelling for Informed Decision-Making”, BC Ministry of Attorney General, Justice Services Branch HQ Conference, 2024
“Designing the AI City: Simulation and Human-Centred Urban Design”, Distinguished speaker in the City Talks Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Cities series, 2023
“Ethical Concerns of AI Research”, All Points West with Jason D’Souza, CBC Radio, 2023
“CSC Lab Crawl”, Department of Computer Science, University of Victoria, 2022
“Health and Technology” Panel, Institute on Aging and Lifelong Health – Pathways to Lifelong Health, University of Victoria, 2021
“Mission, Strategy, & Politics of Starting a Library” Panel, Information & Museum Studies Conference 2019 – Community Knowledge: Shared Practices of Sense-Making, Communication, & Collaboration, University of Toronto, 2019
“Graphics and Media at York (GaMaY) Lab – Animation and Virtual Reality”, Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Initiative – Science Funday, York University, 2018
“Visualize Fast, Visualize Often: Important Insights from Small Changes in Perspective”, NSERC CreateDAV – Summer School, York University, 2018
“Toronto Zine Library”, Maker Festival Toronto 2018
“Footstep Action Identification and Clustering from Motion Capture”, NSERC CreateDAV – Data Analytics & Visualization Bootcamp, York University, 2017
“Graphics and Media at York (GaMaY) Lab”, NSERC CreateDAV – Lab Tours, York University, 2016
“Building the TalkBox Do-It-Yourself speech generating device”, Reclaiming Our Bodies and Minds (ROBAM), Ryerson University, 2016
“Vocal Tract Visualization (VTV) Project: Centre for Innovation in Information Visualization and Data Driven Design (CIVDDD)”, Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE): Discovery 2015
“TalkBox Project: Tetra Society of North America”, Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE): Accessibility Innovation Showcase 2015
“Devices 4 Disabilities (D4D) @ YorkU”, Maker Festival Toronto 2015
“MakeTalk Workshop”, Toronto Mini Maker Faire 2014

Volunteer Activities

October 2022 – Present: Mentor with First in Class: First Generation Student Mentorship Program, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada.
10/2021 – Present: Faculty Sponsor/Liaison UVic Game Dev Club, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada.
04/2018 – Present: Board Member & Officer (Director of Technical Development & Acting Secretary) at The Canada Comics Open Library in Toronto, Canada.
March 2018 – Present: Volunteer (Technical Consultant & Developer) @ the Toronto Zine Library in Toronto, Canada.
February 2019: Mentor @ ElleHacks 2019 in Lassonde School of Engineering at York University
May 2018: Volunteer @ AI·GI·CRV 2018.
February 2018: Mentor @ ElleHacks 2018 in Lassonde School of Engineering at York University
September 2014 – September 2016: President of Devices 4 Disabilities @ York University
June 2016 – August 2016: Data science Collaborator with the Toronto Tool Library Sharing Depot (in collaboration with interns from the University of Toronto iSchool Master of Information program)
March 2014 – August 2014: Vice President of Devices 4 Disabilities @ York University
August 2010 – August 2012: Astronomy Tutor for NATS-AID, a student-run organization in the Faculty of Science, Natural Science Division, @ York University.