Team

Team Members

 
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Maduhuvanthi Guruprasad

Producer/Programmer

Madhu did her undergraduation in Computer Science and worked in Microsoft for 3 years. She is also a theatre actress and playwright, having worked in WeMove Theatre, a theatre group based in Bangalore, for 4 years. At the Entertainment Technology Center she hopes to unite her interest in both technology and art in innovative ways.

 

 

 

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Ruokan He

Designer

Ruokan is specially Interested in combining ART and TECHNOLOGY, and together, creating Interactive Media.She wants to explore various ways of using simple method as website to display interactive media.

 

 

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Qing Li

Programmer

Majored in Digital Media Technology, Ronny uses both his left and right brains to think, he regards himself as half artist and half technician. He likes travelling and exploring new things, which perfectly meets the concept “globalization” of ETC. Through the process of doing various projects, Ronny aspires to work as a technical artist in entertainment industry.

 

 

 

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Akshaya Venugopal

  3D Artist

Akshaya is from Chennai, India,and has finished her Bachelors in Computer Science and Engineering from Anna University. She has always felt drawn to the interdisciplinary aspect of computer graphics, where the creative arts meet core computer science to create work which exhibit both technological prowess and artistic creativity. It has been a strong desire of her to work in this field and is very excited that her first steps towards achieving this goal are being taken at the ETC.

 

 

 
 

Team Advisors

 
Scott Stevens

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Scott Stevens is senior systems scientist in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute as well as faculty in the Entertainment Technology Center. His research interest’s lie in the emerging, complex field of multimedia. Most applications fail to take full advantage of the information bandwidth, much less the capabilities of a multimedia, digital video and audio environment. To achieve, in part, a new model of multimedia systems, Scott’s research includes interface designs that consider the complexity of multimedia objects, create high-fidelity environments, and incorporate an understanding of cinema and of digital video’s temporal, spatial, and psychological nature. Scott’s work also aspires to take the captivating power of story and fantasy, and combine it with motivating design, for applications ranging from learning and entertainment to information access and scientific visualization.

Shirley Saldamarco

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Shirley Saldamarco is the Director of Creative Services and a member of the Faculty at the Entertainment Technology Center. Shirley has been at Carnegie Mellon for most of her adult life. In the early ’70s, she was a student in the School of Drama where she studied Theater Administration. She returned to the School of Drama in 1990 and continues to teach classes in Producing for Television and Film and master class workshops; she has also taught classes in “Creative Enterprises” to students in the Heinz School Master of Entertainment Industry Management Program. Shirley is President of Interactive Media Productions, the company she founded in 1982, which provides clients with Custom Broadcast and Non-broadcast Video Production, DVD and Intranet Training, Web-casting, Meeting Planning, Staging, Power-point Presentations, Video Walls, Computer Generated Graphics and Animation. As an Independent Producer, her projects include documentaries, public affairs programs, and special programming, which have aired on PBS, network and cable television. “After the Tears,” a program produced for United Mental Health has been screened internationally, winning awards and acclaim in Egypt, Israel and Europe, as well as the United States. She proudly displays a number of awards including an Emmy nomination, Matrix Award in Broadcast News and Documentary, Golden Cine, a Pennsylvania Cable Arts Network Award, an American Psychological Association Award, and several Telly Awards. She has a particular interest in producing quality programming for children ages two to six and produced the pilot, “Charlie’s Sharing Adventure” which has found an audience in daycare organizations and preschools. This same interest landed her the position of Dialogue Director for 52 episodes of “Johnson and Friends,” on the Fox Network. Most recently she produced, “Once Upon a Toon”, a co-venture between the Entertainment Technology Center, cartoonist and storyteller, Joe Wos and Production Masters, Inc.

 

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