I'm an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. I direct the Virtual Worlds Group, which tries to understand how scalable virtual world systems can be built and populated, and explores the limits of their usability. In the past my research focused on geometric computing and the mathematical theory of computer science. I came to Stanford after doctoral studies at Tel Aviv University and a three-year postdoctoral appointment at UC Berkeley. I grew up in Ukraine and life saw to it that I cannot speak a single language without an accent.
Vladlen Koltun (email)

News

September 2008 - Courses based on our joint research on networked virtual world systems are being taught this fall by Phil Levis at Stanford and by Mike Freedman at Princeton

August 2008 - The NSF CDI grant proposal on "Virtual Worlds: Scalability and Content Creation" was awarded

July 2008 - The NSF NeTS grant proposal on "A Network Architecture for Federated Virtual/Physical Worlds" was awarded

May 2008 - Virtual worlds are one of the driving applications at the new Stanford Pervasive Parallelism Lab

January 2008 - Thoughtful articles on Dryad at Technology Review and Ars Technica

December 2007 - Dryad is released

September 2007 - info on the Fall 2007 Virtual Worlds course is up

vladlen at stanford dot edu