Pavan Turaga

Director and Professor, The GAME School

Pavan Turaga is the Founding Director of The GAME School at Arizona State University (2025). In this role they oversee a transdisciplinary group of faculty and degree programs, spanning gaming, esports, interactive, immersive and AI-enabled media creation.

They hold a Joint Professor appointment between The GAME School and Electrical Engineering (ECEE). Their teaching portfolio in this role has included classes like Machine Learning for Media Arts, Machine Vision and Pattern Recognition, Martial Arts and Motion Capture, and Creating Games with Artificial Intelligence.

To advance research, they created the Geometric Media Lab (Linkedin Page), where the work spans tools for representation drawn from statistics, optimization, geometry, and topology, and applied to the areas of computer vision, machine learning, immersive technologies, health-analytics, public understanding of science, arts and performance, and more. Their work included extensive collaborations with applied mathematicians, statisticians, health-scientists, and media-arts that informs their work and increases its impact.

They received the ASU Founders' Day Award for Research Excellence (2025), the Distinguished Alumni Award from Electrical Engineering at University of Maryland, College Park (2024), National Science Foundation's CAREER award in 2015, a Best Paper award from the Deep Learning meets Geometric Computing (DLGC) workshop in 2023, a Best Paper Honorable Mention from IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) in 2021, and a Best Paper Award in 2015 from the Computational Cameras and Displays (CCD) Workshop. Details of awards and grants.