Dr. Petros Faloutsos

Professor

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Biography

Professor Petros Faloutsos joined York University in 2011. Prior to joining York, he was a faculty member in the Computer Science Department at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) starting in 2002, where he founded the computer graphics lab and served as the lab’s director until 2011. He holds a PhD (2002) and MSc in Computer Science from the University of Toronto, Canada, and a BEng in Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Visual Computer and has served as Program Co-Chair for various significant conferences, including the ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation in 2005 and the Motion Games Conference in 2011. He is also a member of ACM.

Research Interests

Computer Graphics Computer Animation Virtual Humans Virtual Reality Serious Games Computer-Aided Design

Requirements for York University

Master Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3.3
IELTS
Overall
Required:7.5
TOEFL
Total
Required:100
Prerequisites
4-year Honours Bachelor degree in a related discipline
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Specialization Notes

Department of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies graduate programs generally follow the Faculty of Graduate Studies (FGS) B+ minimum requirement.