Grad

I am a PhD student in the Computer Science program. My advisor is Zoran Popović. I am in the Graphics group GRAIL and the Center for Game Science. I started my grad student career by helping flesh out the Foldit intro levels and making the Welcome to Foldit! YouTube video. Now, my primary project is PhotoCity, a game for reconstructing the entire world in 3D from photographs.

Publications

	PhotoCity: training experts at large-scale image acquisition through a competitive game Kathleen Tuite, Nadine Tabing, Dun-Yu Hsiao, Noah Snavely and Zoran Popović. (CHI 2011) [pdf] [project] Videos CHI Madness, Red Square
	Reconstructing the World in 3D: Bringing Games with a Purpose Outdoors Kathleen Tuite, Noah Snavely, Dun-Yu Hsiao, Adam Smith and Zoran Popović. (Foundations of Digital Games 2010) [pdf] [project] [game] [4-page version] Presentation pdf, pptx Videos video #1, video #2, even more videos on YouTube
	The Challenge of Designing Scientific Discovery Games Seth Cooper, Adrien Treuille, Janos Barbero, Andrew Leaver-Fay, Kathleen Tuite, Firas Khatib, Alex Cho Snyder, Michael Beenen, David Salesin, David Baker, Zoran Popović, and Foldit players. (Foundations of Digital Games 2010) [pdf] [project] [game]
	Investigation of Two Bodies With Equal Point X-Rays at Two Sources Dusty Ross, Kathleen Tuite. (Oregon State 2006 Summer Math REU) [pdf]

Undergrad

I graduated from UC Santa Cruz in 2007 with some nifty CS and Math degrees.

I made several games in undergrad, mostly related to the first game Ben Samuel and I made in our CE 12 class, intro to computer architecture and assembly programming. Epic themes: Alligators and rocketpacks.

Personal

I like making stuff and taking pictures. Sometimes I write about my projects on my blog. Most of this stuff is also linked from my personal website, superfiretruck.com.