Presenter

Kunal Gupta is a Ph.D. candidate at the Empathic Computing Laboratory, The University of Auckland, New Zealand, under the supervision of Prof. Mark Billinghurst. His research topic revolves around emotion recognition and representation in VR/AR using physiological sensing and contextual information. Prior to this, he worked as a User Experience Researcher at Google Inc. (Contract) and as an Interaction Designer at a startup in India with a total of around 5 years of industry experience. He obtained his masters from HITLab NZ at Unversity of Canterbury under the supervision of Prof Mark Billinghurst in 2015.