Dinesh K. Pai is a Professor and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in the Department of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia, where he directs the Sensorimotor Systems Laboratory. He is also a member of the Institute of Applied Mathematics, the Graduate Program in Neuroscience, the ICORD International Collaboration on Repair Discoveries, and the Brain Research Centre. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, and his B.Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. His current research is focused on sensorimotor computation in computer graphics, robotics, and neurobiology.

Pai's interdisciplinary activities at UBC are supported by a Major Thematic Grant on Sensorimotor Computation from the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies.

We were awarded a Program Grant from the Human Frontier Science Program for studying modularity in the central nervous system.

News

I am organizing an international workshop on Multimodal and Sensorimotor Bionics, Munich, July 25-29, 2011, co-sponsored by the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies and Technical University of Munich's Institute for Advanced Studies. For more information visit the workshop website.

Workshop on Sensorimotor Computation: the Control of Gaze at the College de France in Paris, May 3-4, 2010. Workshop Program (PDF, 216KB)

Human Sensorimotor Systems is one of the five themes of the recently announced CFI infrastructure grant to ICICS. Over the next few years we will acquire several pieces of equipment for furthering a constructive understanding of human sensorimotor systems. These include a new motion capture system, eye and head trackers, a 256 channel EEG/EMG system, haptic interfaces, a multifingered robot hand, and variety of different sensors and computer hardware.