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About me – Rubaiat Habib Kazi

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I am a Sr. Research Scientist at Adobe Research. I design and develop computing tools that facilitate powerful ways of thinking, design, and communication with sketching and gestures. My research in animation & dynamic drawings is turned into new products that reach to a global audience. Among them, Apple recognized SketchBook Motion as the best iPad app of the year 2016. I also contributed to the design and engineering of the inaugural animation/motion features in Adobe Fresco. Prior to Adobe, I worked at Autodesk Research, Microsoft Research, and Japan Science & Technology Agency. I advocate the power of dynamic drawings as a powerful medium for art, design, and communication. As an attempt to communicate scientific ideas with storytelling and art, I have written my PhD thesis in the form of comics. In similar spirit, our Draco paper is the first academic paper in ACM with embedded animated figures in PDF. I love to animate, draw, sketch, and write comics. In 2007, we published our f

I am a Sr. Research Scientist at Adobe Research , where I research, design, and prototype AI-native creative tools that enables creators to express, think, and communicate in powerful ways. Over the past 12+ years I’ve led 0→1 creative tools that reached millions — Autodesk Sketchbook Motion (Apple’s iPad App of the Year, 2016) and the inaugural motion features in Adobe Fresco (2021) — and contributed motion lines and secondary effects to Adobe Character Animator , part of the 2019 Emmy Engineering Award–winning team. The work bridges product and research – translating resear

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