Hi, my name is Ryan Hayward, and I have recently graduated with my masters degree from the University of Utah. I am actively looking for a job, with particular interest in computer graphics and virtual reality. Please check out my resume for more information and send inquiries to rhayward@cs.utah.edu. Thank You.

I am currently working as Research Staff for the Virtual Environments and Teleoperation Lab. My main focus is with the Treadport Project, on which I received my masters degree. My research was published in the paper "Implementing Virtual Stairs on Treadmills Using Torso Force Feedback" (ps or pdf) at the IEEE Intl. Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2002. For more information on the Treadport check out our article "Keeping It Real" in MIT's Technology Review magazine.
I am also currently working on the Sarcos Dextrous Arm Slave and Master project and am affiliated with the Immersive Environment research group

Update - I am now working in Xenia, Ohio at Barco Simulation.

Contact Info

E-mail address: rhayward@cs.utah.edu
Office Phone: (801)585-1808
Lab Phone: (801)585-7515

Home Address:
356 S. 1200 E. Apt #9
Salt Lake City, UT 84102

School Info

I completed my undergraduate career at Washington University in St. Louis, where I enjoyed a good 4 years. The last few years have been spent in a more scenic part of the country working on my graduate degree. Here are links to my undergraduate school sites.

Washington University
Computer Science Department
Computer Engineering Department
School of Engineering and Applied Science

Links to graduate school include
Utah University
Computer Science Department

In my first year and a half of grad school I was a teaching assistant for EE/CS3700, CS3810, and CS5310, all good classes I'd recommend taking.

Class Schedule:
Classes are finally over, but a list of previously taken classes can be found at the following web page
Also check out a few of the images I created for my Image Synthesis course

Work Related

I have now graduated (May 2002), and thus am looking for interesting job opportunities. My updated resume can be found at resume. My job interests are listed at the bottom of the page. Please send me any inquiries. Thank You.

Personal

Here are links to some of my family & friends' home Pages :

Eric Hayward
Mark & Reshma Berryman
Alan Bardgett
Ashutosh Mehndirrata
Bharat Chandramouli
Vidya Elangovan
Lavanya Sridharan
Krishna Mohan
Abhijeet Vijayakar
Mike Thelen
Mike Loughman

Misc
Science Links
Inverted Images - created for fun in my AI class
Beautiful Art - Some Great Pieces, Must See
Other interesting links on the internet

That's it. Hope you enjoyed my home page. I know it is pretty boring, but I'm a grad student - who has time to fix it up. Hopefully as I get more into my research and take some interesting graphics courses I'll have more to add. Until then live with what you see :).