Gregory
Turk

General Information

Email:
turk@cc.gatech.edu
Phone:
404 894-3152
Location - Building:
Coda
Location - Room:
E662B
Roles:
Professor (any rank)
Primary Unit:
School of Interactive Computing
Website URL
Turk Web Site

Details

Degrees with subject and Postdoc Experience:
Degree Type
PhD
Subject
Computer Science
Year
1992
Institution
UNC Chapel Hill
Location
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Degree Type
MS
Subject
Computer Science
Year
1989
Institution
UNC Chapel Hill
Location
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Degree Type
BS
Subject
Mathematics
Year
1984
Institution
UCLA
Location
Los Angeles, California
Statement of Research Interests:

Dr. Turk's research primarily is in the area of computer graphics, with a current emphasis on physically-based animation techniques.  He also carries out research that overlaps with machine learning, computer vision, scientific visualization, and simulation of biological systems.

Statement of Teaching Interests:

Dr. Turk teaches an introductory course in computer graphics for undergraduates.  He also teaches a course in procedural content generation that is a mixed undergraduate and graduate course.

Selection of recent research, scholarly, and creative activities:

Greg Turk, “Vants and Turmites”, Artificial Life, Vol. 31 (4), 2025.

Yunbo Zhang, Alex Clegg, Sehoon Ha, Greg Turk and Yuting Ye, “Learning to Transfer In-Hand Manipulations Using a Greedy Shape Curriculum”, Eurographics 2023.

Alex Clegg, Zackory Erickson, Patrick Grady, Greg Turk, C. Karen Liu and Charles C. Kemp, “Learning to Collaborate from Simulation for Robot-Assisted Dressing”, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2020.

Wenhao Yu, C. Karen Liu and Greg Turk, “Policy Transfer with Strategy Optimization”, International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2019.