Bogdan Pikula is an MSc student at the University of Toronto, passionate about facial animation generation and emotion detection, supervised by Prof. Wigdor and Prof. Engels. With an ongoing research project exploring the generation of facial-based emotional transitions for interactive development in entertainment, Bogdan is looking for novel applications in the area. His work is at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction and Machine Learning. Bogdan is the recipient of the SSHRC graduate scholarship.