Erik Paluka, M.Sc. in Computer Science
Human-Computer Interaction & Information Visualization
News
01/2024
Joined
Strategix AI
as a Senior Software Engineer focusing on artificial
intelligence and full-stack software development.
11/2020
Joined
Nuvalence
as a Software Engineer focusing on cloud, mobile, frontend, &
backend software development.
05/2019
Joined
RBC Ventures
as well as
Ownr
as a Full Stack JavaScript Engineer.
05/2019
Founded my software consulting firm called PalukaTech.
10/2016
Research paper on SpatialVis
was accepted and presented at a
workshop
at the
IEEE VIS 2016 research conference.
09/2016
Off to California for 6 months to work with a client!
06/2016
Joined
TribalScale
as a software engineer with a focus on JavaScript ReactJS +
NodeJS development.
03/2016
Our research work on the
Simple Multi-Touch Toolkit
was released as a chapter in
Designing Digital Surface Applications.
02/2016
Submitted a USA patent application based on the spatial
off-screen navigation techniques found in my
M.Sc. thesis.
08/2015
Successfully defended my
Master of Science in Computer Science thesis. My work centred on the design and evaluation of around-device
spatial interaction techniques.
06/2015
Presented
TandemTable
to Minister of State for Science & Technology, President of
NSERC, Member of Parliament for Whitby-Oshawa, & President and
Vice-Chancellor of UOIT.
06/2015
02/2015
10/2014
Demoed my
visualization system for logged spatial interaction data
at the NSERC Digital Surface Software Application Network (SurfNet) research workshop hosted at the University of Calgary
09/2014
Our paper
on a tablet-based reading and learning application was accepted
for publication and presented at the research conference on
Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices & Services
(MobileHCI 2014)
08/2014
Conducted my first
physiological computing study
using electrodermal response (skin conductance) sensors, as well
as other affective measures
06/2014
Demoed
TandemTable
for
Princess Elettra Marconi Giovanelli of Italy, who is the daughter of radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi
03/2014
Our
stereoscopic 3D + information visualization study, was presented at the 2014 University of Ontario Institute of
Technology's Graduate Student Research Conference
03/2014
Attended the
2014 CHI Research Conference on Human Factors in Computing
Systems
in Toronto, Canada
10/2013
Attended the
2013 User Interface Software and Technology (UIST)
research conference in St Andrews, Scotland
10/2013
Presented
TandemTable
at the
Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces (ITS)
research conference in St Andrews, Scotland
06/2013
Gave a tutorial on the
Simple Multi-Touch (SMT) toolkit
at the NSERC Digital Surface Software Application Network (SurfNet) research workshop hosted at the University of Calgary
05/2013
Attended the
2013 GRAND NCE
research conference and
Canada 3.0
conference in Toronto, Canada
04/2013
Our
Simple Multi-Touch (SMT) toolkit
was accepted as an official contributed library to
Processing
10/2012
Presented entry at the
Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST)
2012 Student Innovation Contest in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
09/2012
Gave a tutorial on the
Simple Multi-Touch (SMT) toolkit
and demoed my
undergraduate thesis
at the NSERC Digital Surface Software Application Network (SurfNet) research workshop hosted at the University of Waterloo
09/2012
Presented my
undergraduate thesis
to the University of Ontario Institute of Technology's Board of
Governors
08/2012
Presented my research poster on my
undergraduate thesis
at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology's Student
Research Showcase 2012
04/2012
Defended my
undergraduate thesis
in computer science at the University of Ontario Institute of
Technology
09/2011
Demoed the
Simple Multi-Touch (SMT) toolkit
at the NSERC Digital Surface Software Application Network (SurfNet) research workshop hosted at the University of Calgary
08/2011
Presented my research poster on the
Simple Multi-Touch (SMT) toolkit
at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology's Student
Research Showcase 2011
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