Aditya Gunturu

Aditya Gunturu

First-year CS PhD Student
University of Washington

I'm a first-year CS PhD student at the University of Washington, advised by Jon Froehlich. My research in HCI explores building intelligent authoring tools that help users create and edit animated visual media. I completed my MSc from the University of Calgary, advised by Ryo Suzuki. I also spent the summer of 2025 at Adobe working on motion graphics retargeting tools.

News

Apr 2026

Incoming CS PhD student at the University of Washington - I will be joining the Allen School to work with Jon Froehlich

Oct 2025

Two papers presented at UIST 2025 and One paper accepted at SUI 2025

May 2025

Starting my Internship at Adobe Research with Stephen DiVerdi and Mackenzie Leake

Nov 2024

Our work got featured in the media: BGR, AZORobotics, Brighter Side News, and Phys.org

Oct 2024

Augmented Physics received a Best Paper Award at UIST 2024

Oct 2023

One paper accepted to UIST 2023

Aug 2023

Started my MSc at the University of Calgary with Ryo Suzuki

Selected Publications

UIST 2026

CARVid: Content-Aware Retargeting of Videos with On-Screen Graphics

Aditya Gunturu, Mackenzie Leake, Ryo Suzuki, Stephen DiVerdi

UIST 2025

MapStory: Prototyping Editable Map Animations with LLM Agents

Aditya Gunturu, Ben Pearman, Keiichi Ihara, Morteza Faraji, Bryan Wang, Rubaiat Habib Kazi, Ryo Suzuki

UIST 2024

Best Paper Award

Augmented Physics: Creating Interactive and Embedded Physics Simulations from Static Textbook Diagrams

Aditya Gunturu, Yi Wen, Nandi Zhang, Jarin Thundathil, Rubaiat Habib Kazi, Ryo Suzuki

Education

Fall 2026—

University of Washington

PhD in Computer Science

Advisor: Prof. Jon Froehlich

Aug 2023 - Jan 2026

University of Calgary

M.Sc. in Computational Media Design

Advisor: Prof. Ryo Suzuki

Aug 2018 - July 2022

Manipal Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Technology

Major: Media Technology

Minor: Computational Mathematics