Andrea Colaço is a Staff Engineer at Google where she works on new computational sensing technologies.
Her previous work has focused on low-power 3D sensing systems for mobile and wearable input applications. Andrea’s work combines modern signal processing with off-the-shelf hardware systems to create new ways of sensing objects, features and input. Some of her projects focus on application specific sensing — where the constraints of the application are incorporated in the design of the sensor itself.
Andrea co-founded and led her startup 3dim team to win the Grand Prize at the 2013 MIT $100k Entrepreneurship Competition. For her work in next-generation touch-less interfaces, she was featured in New Scientist, Times of India, Cosmopolitan, the Wall Street Journal, and Boston Business Journal.
Recent Work
- Launched VR 6dof controllers
- [THESIS] Compact and low-power computational 3D sensors for gestural input
- A Colaço, A Kirmani, HS Yang, NW Gong, C Schmandt, VK Goyal, Mime: compact, low power 3D gesture sensing for interaction with head mounted displays, UIST 2013
Paper
Daydream 6dof controllers
See what I’ve been working on at Google! We built 6dof controllers with a unique optical tracking system that uses simple opto-electronic components combined with AI yielding surprising results.
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