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Karan Singh has been an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Toronto since Jan 2002, where he co-directs the graphics and human computer interaction lab, DGP. He holds a BTech. (IIT Madras 1991), MS and PhD (Ohio State University 1992, 1995) in Computer Science. His research interests lie in artist driven interactive graphics, spanning geometric shape design, character animation and artistic rendering. He has been a lead architect on two commercial software projects that have won technical Oscars (Maya, Paraform). These software systems are the current industry standards for animation (Maya) and reverse engineering (Metris-Paraform). He was the R+D Director for the 2005 Oscar winning Animation film “Ryan” and more recently provided support for artistic rendering on the NFB animation "the spine".