Mengu Sukan, Steven Feiner, “Using Augmented Snapshots for Viewpoint Switching and Manipulation in Augmented Reality”, ACM Conf. on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) Interactivity, May 2012 (Accepted).
Mengu Sukan, Steven Feiner, Semih Energin, “Poster: Manipulating Virtual Objects in Hand-Held Augmented Reality using Stored Snapshots”, IEEE Symp. on 3D User Interfaces (3DUI), Mar 2012 (Recipient of Best Poster Award).
Mengu Sukan, Ohan Oda, Xiang Shi, Manuel Entrena, Shrenik Sadalgi, Jie Qi, Steven Feiner, “ARMonica: A Collaborative Sonic Environment”, Symp. on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), Oct 2010.
Mengu Sukan, Steven Feiner, “SnapAR: Storing Snapshots for Quick Viewpoint Switching in Hand-Held Augmented Reality”, Int’l Symp. on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), Oct 2010.
As of the Spring 2012 semester, I am a third-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science and a member of the Computer Graphics and User Interfaces Lab at Columbia University. My research interests include 3D user interfaces, augmented reality (more specifically for navigation, maintenance & repair, games), and information visualization. I am advised by Prof. Steven Feiner.
I received my BS in Industrial Engineering in 2002 from University of Wisconsin − Madison. As an BS student, I concentrated my coursework on efficiency, optimization, systems design, simulations, and programming by choosing my electives from those areas.
Following my graduation from UW-Madison, I took a full-time position at ZS Associates in Evanston, Illinois — a consulting company that specializes in helping pharmaceutical firms optimize their sales and marketing efforts.
As a part of their “Business Information Specialist” track, my primary focus was deriving business intelligence from high-volume data sources using tools like SAS and SQL. During my 6-year tenure at ZS, my role in the company evolved from being a leading analyst to include various types of consulting tasks, such as designing dashboards, interfacing between ZS- and client-personnel, and mentoring/training junior associates.
In 2005, I relocated to New York City a part of the ZS team responsible for ensuring a successful launch of their NYC office.
In 2009, I completed the requirements for the MS Computer Science degree at Columbia University with a concentration in Computer Vision and Graphics. You can find the list of the classes I took on this page.
Fall 2011
- CSEE W4824 Computer Architecture*
Summer 2009
- CSOR W4231 Analysis of Algorithms 1*
Spring 2009
- COMS W4118 Operating Systems I*
- COMS W4115 Prog Lang & Translators*
- COMS W4167 Computer Animation
- COMS W4172 3D User Interfaces
Fall 2008
- COMS W4160 Computer Graphics
- COMS W4701 Artificial Intelligence*
- COMS W4731 Computer Vision
- COMS E6737 Biometrics
- COMS E6901 Projects in Comp Science**
(*Core Requirement, **Independent Research)
Budapest, Hungary. January 2009
