Dr. Kurillo is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at University of California, Berkeley, where he is involved in the tele-immersion project. His research interests include virtual reality, stereo vision, camera calibration, and rehabilitation engineering.

ALLADIN project was focused on the development of a user-friendly natural language based decision support software for neuro-rehabilitation, in particular in stroke. Within the project, a novel force measuring platform was designed to assess isometric forces of different parts of the body (e.g. fingertips, forearm, back, foot etc.) during intention driven tasks (e.g. trying to pick up a cup for drinking).




2006 - Now: Postdoctoral Researcher, Teleimmersion Lab, UC Berkeley
Tele-immersion is aimed to enable users in geographically distributed sites to collaborate in real time in a shared simulated environment as if they were in the same physical room. We currently have several projects underway to improve the existing technology, including segmentation algorithms to recognize human beings and segment their data into individual limbs, mathematical models of human movement in order to identify actions, refinement of stereo algorithms to better discern depth information in less time, customized hardware architectures to optimize performance of existing algorithms, and ongoing experiments and refinements in the sharing of real-time video and audio data over long distances.

• Gregorij Kurillo, Tadej Bajd, Roman Kamnik, "Static analysis of two-fingered grips", J. autom. control, vol. 12(1), pp. 38-45, May 2002.
• Gregorij Kurillo, Tadej Bajd, Roman Kamnik, "Static analysis of nippers pinch", Neuromodulation (Malden Mass.), vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 166-175, Jul. 2003.
• Gregorij Kurillo, Tadej Bajd, "Merjenje in ocenjevanje prijemanja", Rehabilitacija (Ljubl.), vol. 2, no. 1-2, pp. 6-13, 2003.
• Gregorij Kurillo, Anton Zupan, Tadej Bajd, "Force tracking system for the assessment of grip force control in patients with neuromuscular diseases", Clin. biomech. (Amsterdam), vol. 19, pp. 1014-1021, 2004.
• Simon Brežan, Veronika Rutar, Vito Logar, Blaž Koritnik, Gregorij Kurillo, Aleš Belič, Tadej Bajd, Janez Zidar, "Elektroencefalografska koherenca", Psihol. obz. (Ljubl.), vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 61-69, 139, 2004.
• Gregorij Kurillo, Milan Gregorič, Nika Goljar, Tadej Bajd, "Tracking-based method for assessment and restoration of grip force control", SJDR, Saudi J. Disabil. Rehabil., vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 205-212, Jul./Sep. 2004.
• Gregorij Kurillo, Milan Gregorič, Nika Goljar, Tadej Bajd, "Grip force tracking system for assessment and rehabilitation of hand function", Technol. Health Care, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 137-149, 2005.
• Gregorij Kurillo, Nika Goljar, Tadej Bajd, "Cognitive-feedback training of hand function in patients after stroke", Zdravstveni Vestnik (Slovenian Medical Journal), vol. 74, no. 9, pp. 509-514, Sep. 2005.
• Simon Brežan, Veronika Rutar, Vito Logar, Blaž Koritnik, Gregorij Kurillo, Aleš Belič, Janez Zidar, "Electroencephalographic (EEG) coherence between visual and motor areas of the left and the right brain hemisphere while performing visuomotor task with the right and the left hand", Zdravstveni Vestnik (Slovenian Medical Journal), vol. 76, no. 9, pp. 519-527, 2007.
• Gregorij Kurillo, Matjaž Mihelj, Marko Munih, Tadej Bajd, “Multi-fingered grasping and manipulation in virtual environments using an isometric finger device,” MIT Presence: Teleoperators & Virtual Environments, vol. 16, no. 3, 293-306, 2007.
• Mitja Veber, Gregorij Kurillo, Tadej Bajd, Marko Munih, “Assessment and training of hand dexterity in virtual environment,” Journal Europeen des Systemes Automatises (English issue), vol. 41, no. 2, pp. 219-238, 2007.
• Gregoij Kurillo, Matjaz Mihelj, Marko Munih, Tadej Bajd, "Isometric finger device for assessment and training of force coordination using virtual reality," ASME Journal of Medical Devices, vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 279-282, 2007.
• Jernej Predan, Roman Kamnik, Pavla Obreza, Gregorij Kurillo, Tadej Bajd, Marko Munih, “Design and evaluation of an FES system for hand sensorimotor augmentation,” Neuromodulation, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 208-215, 2008.
•  Jeremy N. Bailenson, Kayur Patel, Alexia Nielsen, Ruzena Bajcsy, Sang Jung, Gregorij Kurillo, “The Effect of Interactivity on Learning Physical Actions in Virtual Reality,” Media Psychology. In Press, 2008. 
• Zhenyu Yang, Wanmin Wu, Klara Nahrstedt, Gregorij Kurillo and Ruzena Bajcsy, “Enabling Multi-party 3D Tele-immersive Environments with ViewCast”, " ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMCCAP). Accepted 2008.

• Tadej Bajd, Gregorij Kurillo, Tamara Šupuk, Mitja Veber, Anton Zupan, Marko Munih, "Merjenje in vrednotenje prijemanja v rehabilitaciji", Med. razgl., vol. 45, no. 2, pp. 191-198, jun. 2006.

• Gregorij Kurillo, Tadej Bajd, "Razvoj merilnega sistema za merjenje in ocenjevanje prijemanja pri človeku", ER (Ljubl.), no. 2, pp. 43-48, 2004.

• Tadej Bajd, Marjan Veber, Gregorij Kurillo, Tamara Šupuk, Barbara Bajd, Marko Munih, "Measurement and evaluation of human grasping", In: 4th International Conference on Electrical and Power Engineering EPE 2006, Iaşi, Romania, October 12-14, 2006, (Buletinul Institutului Politehnic din Iaşi, tom. 52 (56), fasc. 5A), Iaşi, Universitatea Technică "Gh. Asachi", 2006, vol. 52, no. 5A, pp. 499-504, 2006.

• Gregorij Kurillo, Tadej Bajd, Matjaž Mihelj, "Force tracking in two-oppositional grips", In: Advancement of medicine and health care through technology - the challenge to biomedical engineering in Europe : proceedings, (IFMBE proceedings, vol. 3), 2nd European medical & biological engineering conference [also] EMBEC '02, December 04-08, 2002, Vienna - Austria, Helmut Hutten, ed., Peter Krösl, ed., Graz, Verlag der Technischen Universität, cop. 2002, part 2, pp. 1712-1713.
• Gregorij Kurillo, Tadej Bajd, Roman Kamnik, "Static analysis of nippers pinch", In: IFESS 2002 proceedings, 7th Annual Conference of the International Functional Electrical Stimulation Society, Ljubljana, Slovenia, June 25-29, 2002, Tomaž Karčnik, ed., Peter Veltink, ed., Robert Jaeger, ed., [Ljubljana, Ministry of Education, Science and Sport of the Republic of Slovenia, 2002], pp. 259-261.
• Gregorij Kurillo, Tadej Bajd, Matjaž Mihelj, "Merilni sistem za analizo prijemanja pri človeku", In: Zbornik enajste mednarodne Elektrotehniške in računalniške konference ERK 2002, 23.-25. september 2002, Portorož, Slovenija, Baldomir Zajc, ed., Ljubljana, IEEE Region 8, Slovenska sekcija IEEE, [2002], Vol. B, pp. 369-372.
• Gregorij Kurillo, Anton Zupan, Tadej Bajd, Bojan Čeru, "Grip-force tracking in patients with neuromuscular diseases", In: Assistive technology - shaping the future, (Assistive technology research series, Vol. 11), Ger M. Craddock, ed., Lisa P. McCormack, ed., Richard B. Reilly, ed., Harry Knops, ed., Amsterdam [etc.], IOS press, Ohmsha, cop. 2003, pp. 837-841.
• Gregorij Kurillo, Blaž Koritnik, Janez Zidar, Tadej Bajd, "Analysis of electroencephalographic correlation during grip-force tracking", In: The IEEE Region 8 EUROCON 2003 : computer as a tool : 22-24. September 2003, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia : proceedings, Baldomir Zajc, ed., Marko Tkalčič, ed., Piscataway, IEEE, cop. 2003, vol. 2, pp. 188-192.
• Gregorij Kurillo, Tadej Bajd, "Analysis of human grasping using robotic force sensor", In: Proceedings, International conference on industrial technology [also] IEEE ICIT 2003, Hotel Habakuk Maribor, Slovenia, December 10-12, 2003, Piscataway, IEEE, 2003, pp. 724-728.
• Gregorij Kurillo, Tadej Bajd, Matjaž Tercelj, "The effect of age on the grip force control in lateral grip", In: Conference proceedings, 26th annual international conference of the IEEE engineering in medicine and biology society, September 1-5, San Francisco, California, Piscataway, IEEE, Danvers (MA), Omnipress, cop. 2004, pp. 4657-4660.
• Gregorij Kurillo, Tadej Bajd, "The study of human grasping for the development of hand rehabilitation systems", In: Intelligent Manipulation and Grasping : International Conference, July 1-2, 2004, Genova, Italy, Rezia Molfino, ed., 2004, pp. 191-196.
• Gregorij Kurillo, Barbara Bajd, Vesna Pikl, "Grip force control of lateral grip in 10-year old children and adults", In: Medicon and health telematics 2004 : health in the information society : proceedings of the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering, (IFMBE proceedings, vol. 6, 2004), Naples, Ischia, AIIMB & IFMBE, cop. 2004, 4 pp.
• Gregorij Kurillo, Tadej Bajd, Anton Zupan, "Assessment of grip force control in patients with muscular dystrophy", In: Simpozij o bioloških in socialnih virih za izboljšanje kakovosti življenja ljudi z živčnomišičnimi boleznimi, (Zdravniški vestnik, vol. 73, suplement 2), Uroš Ahčan, ed., Aleš Pražnikar, ed., [Ljubljana, Slovensko zdravniško društvo], 2004, pp. II-33-II-38.
• Gregorij Kurillo, Matjaž Mihelj, Marko Munih, Tadej Bajd, "Grasping and manipulation in virtual environment using 3By6 finger device", In: ICORR, IEEE 9th International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics, Chicago, June 28- July 1, 2005, [Piscatawey, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, = IEEE], 2005, pp. 131-134.
• Gregorij Kurillo, Nika Goljar, Tadej Bajd, "Force tracking system for training of hand function in stroke patients", In: Neural engineering, 2nd International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, 16 - 19 March 2005, Arlington, Virginia, Laura J. Wolf, ed., Jodi L. Strock, ed., New York, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, cop. 2005, pp. 438-441.
• Aleš Belič, Blaž Koritnik, Vito Logar, Simon Brežan, Veronika Rutar, Gregorij Kurillo, Rihard Karba, Janez Zidar, "Identification of human gripping-force control from electro-encephalographic signals by artificial neural networks", In: Preprints of the 16th IFAC World Congress : Prague, Czech Republic, July 3-8, 2005, 16th IFAC World Congress, Prague, July 3-8, 2005, P. Horacek, ed., Miroslav Šimandl, ed., Pavel Zitek, ed., [Prague], International Federation of Automatic Control, 2005, [6] pp.
• Gregorij Kurillo, Barbara Bajd, "Grip force control in healthy children and children with Down syndrome", In: Proceedings, EUROCON 2005 - The International Conference on "Computer as a Tool", Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro, November 21-24, 2005, Ljiljana Milić, ed., Belgrade, University of Belgrade, School of Electrical Engineering, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, cop. 2005, pp. 390-393.
• Barbara Bajd, Gregorij Kurillo, "Assessment of grip force control in healthy children and children with Down syndrome ", In: Imaging the future medicine, (IFMBE proceedings, vol. 14), World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering 2006, August 27 - September 1, Seoul, Korea, Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer, cop. 2006, 4 pp.
• Aleš Belič, Blaž Koritnik, Vito Logar, Simon Brežan, Veronika Rutar, Rihard Karba, Gregorij Kurillo, Janez Zidar, "Identification of gripping-force control from electroencephalographic signals", In: 11th Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Enginering and Computing 2007, 26-30 June, 2007, Ljubljana, Slovenia, (IFMBE proceedings, vol. 16), Tomaž Jarm, ed., Peter Kramar, ed., Anže Županič, ed., New York, Springer, International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering, 2007, pp. 478-481.
• Marko Munih, Gregorij Kurillo, Mitja Veber, Jernej Perdan, Janez Podobnik, Uroš Mali, Justin Cinkelj, Matjaž Mihelj, Tomaž Koritnik, Roman Kamnik, Tadej Bajd. Analysis and synthesis of human and machine motion at UL FE. In: Proceedings of International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR) 2007, Noordwijk, the Netherlands, June 13-15, 2007. Piscataway: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE, pp. 504-512.
• Jyh-Ming Lien, Gregorij Kurillo, Ruzena Bajcsy, "Skeleton-based data compression for multi-camera tele-immersion system," In Proceedings of International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC 2007), Lake Tahoe, CA, November 26-28, 2007. 
• Gregorij Kurillo, Ruzena Bajcsy, Klara Nahrsted, Oliver Kreylos, “Immersive 3D environment for remote collaboration and training of physical activities,” In Proceedings of IEEE Virtual Reality Conference (VR 2008), March 8-12, 2008, Reno, NV, pp. 269-270.
• Hee-Sung Kim, Gregorij Kurillo, Ruzena Bajcsy, “Hand tracking and motion detection from the sequence of stereo color image frames,” In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT ’08), April 21-24, 2008, Chengdu, China.
• Jeremy N. Bailenson, Kayur Patel, Alexia Nielsen, Ruzena Bajcsy, Gregorij Kurillo, “The effect of interactivity on learning physical actions in virtual reality,” In Proceedings of 58th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), May 22-26, 2008, Montreal, Canada.
• Gregorij Kurillo, Zeyu Li, Ruzena Bajcsy, “Wide-Area External Multi-Camera Calibration Using Vision Graphs and Virtual Calibration Object,” In Proceedings of 2nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC ’08), Stanford, CA, 2008. 
• Gregorij Kurillo, Ramanarayan Vasudevan, Edgar Lobaton, and Ruzena Bajcsy, ”A framework for collaborative real-time 3D teleimmersion in a geographically distributed environment,” IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM 2008), Berkeley, CA, December 15-17, 2008. Accepted. 2008.

• Gregorij Kurillo, Boštjan Grašič, Roman Kamnik, Tadej Bajd, "Prijemanje pri človeku in robotu", In: Zbornik desete Elektrotehniške in računalniške konference ERK 2001, 24. - 26. september 2001, Portorož, Slovenija, Baldomir Zajc, ed., Ljubljana, IEEE Region 8, Slovenska sekcija IEEE, 2001, zv. B, pp. 215-218.
• Nika Goljar, Gregorij Kurillo, Janja Poje, Tadej Bajd, "Metoda sledenja za izboljšanje funkcije roke po možganski kapi", In: Zbornik predavanj, (Rehabilitacija, vol. 5, no. 3-4), III. slovenski kongres fizikalne in rehabilitacijske medicine, Kranjska Gora, 5. - 7. oktober 2006, Helena Burger, ed., Hermina Damjan, ed., Klemen Grabljevec, ed., Ljubljana, Inštitut Republike Slovenije za rehabilitacijo, 2006, pp. 68-70. 
• Simon Brežan, Veronika Rutar, Vito Logar, Blaž Koritnik, Gregorij Kurillo, Aleš Belič, Tadej Bajd, Janez Zidar, "Electroencephalographic coherence", In: Mind-body studies : proceedings of 6th International Conference on Cognitive Science, Ljubljana, 13-17th October 2003, Igor Kononenko, ed., Igor Jerman, ed., Ljubljana, Institut "Jožef Stefan", 2003, pp. 187.
• Gregorij Kurillo, Anton Zupan, Tadej Bajd, "Analysis of grip force control in patients with neuromuscular diseases", In: Proceedings of the 8th Congress of European Federation for Research in Rehabilitation, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 13-17 June 2004, (International journal of rehabilitation research, Vol. 27, 2004, suppl. 1), Črt Marinček, ed., Helena Burger, ed., London, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2004, pp. 97.
• Gregorij Kurillo, Barbara Bajd, "Grip force control in healthy children and children with Down syndrome", In: Abstracts of Papers, Ljiljana Milić, ed., Belgrade, School of Electrical Engineering, Academic Mind, 2005, pp. 25.
• Barbara Bajd, Gregorij Kurillo, "Evaluation of grasping in children", In: Human evolution and population, Bio-diversity in SE-Europe : [abstracts], Athens, Hellenic Anthropological Association, 2006, pp. 73.
• Klara Nahrstedt, Ruzena Bajcsy, Lisa Wymore, Gregorij Kurillo, Katherine Mezur, Renata Sheppard, Zhenyu Yang, Wanmin Wu, “Symbiosis of Tele-Immersive Environments with Creative Choreography”,  ACM Workshop on Supporting  Creative Acts Beyond Dissemination, associated with 6th ACM Creativity and Cognition Conference, June 13-15, 2007, Washington, DC. 
• Zhenyu Yang, Wanmin Wu, Klara Nahrstedt, Gregorij Kurillo, and Ruzena Bajcsy, Viewcast: View Dissemination and Management for Multi-party 3D Tele-immersive Environments, ACM Multimedia (MM'07), Augsburg, Germany, September 23–29, 2007.
• Wanmin Wu, Zhenyu Yang, Klara Nahrsted, Gregorij Kurillo, and Ruzena Bajcsy, Towards Multi-Site Collaboration in Tele-Immersive Environments, ACM Multimedia (MM'07), Augsburg, Germany, September 23–29, 2007
• Renata Shepherd, Wanmin Wu, Zhenyu Yang, Klara Nahrsted, Lisa Wymore, Gregorij Kurillo, Ruzena Bajcsy and Katherine Mezur, TEEVE: New Digital Options for Collaborative Dance in Geographically Distributed Tele-immersive Spaces, ACM Multimedia (MM'07), Augsburg, Germany, September 23–29, 2007.

• Gregorij Kurillo, Tadej Bajd, Marko Munih, “Assessment and rehabilitation of hand function by the grip force tracking method,” In: New Research on Biofeedback, H.L. Puckhaber, ed., Nova Science Publishers, New York, 2007.

• Gregorij Kurillo, Measurement and Evaluation of Grasping in Virtual Reality, Ph.D. Thesis, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2006.

• Teleimmersion lab @ UC Berkeley
• Teleimmersion project covered by Knight New Media Center
• Laboratory for Robotics and Biomedical Engineering, University of Ljubljana