I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Embodied Social Agents lab, headed by Professor Christopher Peters at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. My research interests (broadly) include Visualization, Computer Graphics, Algorithms and Artificial Intelligence.

Publications

Priority driven Local Optimization for Crowd Simulation
Himangshu Saikia, Fangkai Yang and Christopher Peters
To appear in the 18th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), Montreal, Canada, May 2019.
Extended Abstract
Who are my neighbors? A perception model for selecting neighbors of pedestrians in crowds
Fangkai Yang, Himangshu Saikia and Christopher Peters
Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, Sydney, Australia, November 2018
Paper
Effects of Posture and Embodiment on Social Distance in Human-Agent Interaction in Mixed Reality
Chengjie Li, Theofronia Androulakaki, Yuan Gao, Fangkai Yang, Himangshu Saikia, Christopher Peters and Gabriel Skantze
Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, Sydney, Australia, November 2018
Paper
Towards the use of Mixed Reality for HRI Design via Virtual Robots
Christopher Peters, Fangkai Yang, Himangshu Saikia, Chengjie Li and Gabriel Skantze
The Inaugural International Workshop on Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality for Human-Robot Interaction, Chicago, USA, March 2018
Poster
Comparison and Tracking Methods for Interactive Visualization of Topological Structures in Scalar Fields
Himangshu Saikia
PhD Thesis, November 2017
Thesis
Fast topology-based feature tracking using a directed acyclic graph
Himangshu Saikia and Tino Weinkauf
Topology-Based Methods in Visualization, Tokyo, Japan, February 2017
Extended Abstract presented.
Global Feature Tracking and Similarity Estimation in Time-Dependent Scalar Fields
Himangshu Saikia and Tino Weinkauf
Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. EuroVis) June 2017.
Paper
Fast Similarity Search in Scalar Fields using Merging Histograms
Himangshu Saikia, Hans-Peter Seidel, Tino Weinkauf
Topological Methods in Data Analysis and Visualization IV. TopoInVis 2015. Mathematics and Visualization. Springer, Cham.
Paper
Extended Branch Decomposition Graphs (eBDG): Structural Comparison of Scalar Data
Himangshu Saikia, Hans-Peter Seidel, Tino Weinkauf
Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. EuroVis) 33(3), June 2014.
Video 1 : Interactive Self-Similarity in Scalar Fields using the eBDG
Video 2 : eBDG Computation Walkthrough
Paper
A Stochastic Procedural Modelling Tool for Architectural Structures
Himangshu Saikia. Supervisor : Prof. Dr. Thorsten Thormählen
Master thesis, Saarland University and Max-Planck-Institute for Computer Science, 2012
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Guest Lecturer, KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Teaching Assistant, KTH Royal Institute of Technology.

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