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Dr Dar'ya Guarnera
Lecturer

Biography

Dar'ya Guarnera is a Lecturer in Creative AI and the Programme Lead for the MSc in Artificial Intelligence for the Creative Industries at the School of Arts and Creative Technologies, University of York. She is also the Programme Lead for Virtual World Building and the EDI Champion at CoSTAR Live Lab.

Her research interests include AI, computer graphics, and human perception of colour and material appearance, with applications in material acquisition and representation, as well as 3D visualisation.

After being awarded a BSc in Architecture from the Odessa State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture (Ukraine) and a degree in Computer Science from Liverpool Hope University, she began her research in physically based rendering at Loughborough University, where she received her PhD in Computer Science in 2018. Prior to joining the University of York, she was a Senior Researcher at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).

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Dr Dar'ya Guarnera
School of Arts and Creative Technologies
University of York
York
YO10 5GB

Tel: +44 (0)1904 32 4658