Gary Ushaw

About

Dr Gary Ushaw is Director of Business and Engagement and Senior Lecturer at Newcastle University's School of Computing. He leads industry engagement, contributes to school strategy, and teaches on the Computer Games Engineering MSc. His research focuses on computer game engineering, serious games for health, and GPU computing.

Selected publications

• Real-time ambient occlusion on the Playstation 3
• A Read-Write-Validate Approach to Optimistic Concurrency Control for Energy Efficiency of Resource Constrained Systems
• An Efficient Application of Gesture Recognition from a 2D Camera for Rehabilitation of Patients with Impaired Dexterity
• Applicability of GPGPU Computing to Real-Time AI Solutions in Games
• Volatility Management of High Frequency Trading Environments
• Liana: A Framework That Utilizes Causality to Schedule Contention Management across Networked Systems
• Adopting Best Practices from the Games Industry in Development of Serious Games for Health
• Benchmarking Motion Sensing Devices for Rehabilitative Gaming
• PR-STM: Priority Rule Based Software Transactions for the GPU
• Validity of the Microsoft Kinect sensor for assessment of normal walking patterns in pigs