Computer Science (School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics)
Research Program: Human-Machine Interaction

Biography

From 2011 Anton Bogdanovych is a full-time lecturer of Entertainment Computing and Applied Artificial Intelligence at the University of Western Sydney (UWS), School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics. At UWS he teaches “Video Game Development”, “Human Computer Interaction” and “Advanced Topics in ICT”.  He also works as a casual lecturer at UTS, where he teaches “Intelligent Agents” and “e-Market Trading Technology”.

Anton is involved in a number of research projects related to virtual reality, artificial intelligence, robotics and motion capture. He coordinates the Uruk research project, which is one of the key projects of the School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics. Uruk project aimes at recreating everyday life of ancient Sumerians in one of humanity’s first cities using virtual reality and artificial intelligence. Uruk project has won 3-rd place in the Artificial Intelligence  programming contest (FVWC 2011) organized by U.S. Army.  Another significant project Anton coordinates is Robot Tele-Operation for rescue missions, where researchers work on developing a real-time interface for controlling humanoid robots via full-body motion capture.

From October 2007 to December 2010 Anton was employed as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Western Sydney, where he actively participated in the ARC Discovery grant `It’s all about me’ – Anthropomorphized Trading in Believable Electronic Markets, where the findings of his PhD work played the key role.

Anton completed his PhD degree at the faculty of Information Technology, UTS in May 2008 with the thesis “Virtual Institutions”. This thesis laid the foundations for research on normative regulation of virtual worlds and initiated collaborations with a number of research organizations across the globe. Before starting his PhD at UTS Anton Bogdanovych worked as a researcher and software developer in the Multiagent Systems department in the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). DFKI is one of the largest and most prestigious Artificial Intelligence research centers in the world. Anton was involved in European Union funded projects related to building an intelligent agent based recommender system for elderly digital TV users (SAID), as well as developed algorithms for path classification and persona categorization for mobile device users (SPECTER). 

Anton’s industry experience with Software MacKiev (the largest company that produces Macintosh versions of famous Windows titles) has helped him to get familiar with programming methodologies, tools and people management techniques employed for producing outstanding software titles. One of his products (WorldBook Encyclopedia) was preinstalled on every iMac computer sold in 2001.

Research Interests

• The City of Uruk: 3000 B.C.

• Real-Time Robot Tele-operation for Rescue Missions

Qualifications and Honours

• PhD in Computer Science from University of Technology Sydney, 2008

• Masters in Computer Science, International Solomon University, 2000

Roles

• Lecturer in Entertainment Computing and Applied Artificial Intelligence

• Coordinator of the Human-Machine Interaction Research Program