Bio

Stjepan Rajko graduated in 2009 with a Ph.D. in Computer Science and an M.F.A. in Dance at Arizona State University (both degrees with concentrations from the School of Arts, Media and Engineering), and holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from Iowa State University. His research focuses on the analysis of human movement, with an emphasis of recognition of patterns such as gestures, or inference of certain movement qualities.

He is also an active software developer, recently having the honor of participating in the Google Summer of Code program with projects for the Boost library community and the WikiMedia community. Stjepan has also had the pleasure of choreographing and performing dance works at ASU and ISU, and with the Scorpius dance company in Phoenix. His work Unreal was selected to represent ISU at the American College Dance Festival in 2004.