Francis Quek Professor; Director, Center for Human Computer Interaction Office: 1130 KWII Email: quek@vt.edu Phone: (540) 231-8453 Website: http://www.hci.vt.edu/ Office Hours: MW: 2:30 - 3:30 p.m.

Francis Quek is the Director of the Center for Human Computer Interaction, and Professor of Computer Science at Virginia Tech. The CHCI is a ‘university-level’ center drawing faculty from across the Virginia Tech campus. There are currently 25 faculty members in the CHCI with a broad portfolio of research. He also directs the Vision Interfaces and Systems Laboratory at the CHCI. Francis received both his B.S.E. summa cum laude (1984) and M.S.E. (1984) in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan.  He completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the same university in 1990. Francis is a member of the IEEE and ACM.

He performs research in embodied interaction, multimodal verbal/non-verbal interaction, multimodal meeting analysis, interfaces to support learning, vision-based interaction, multimedia databases, medical imaging, collaboration technology, human computer interaction, computer vision, and computer graphics.   He leads several multiple-disciplinary research efforts to understand the communicative realities of multimodal interaction, and in embodied interaction.