A paper co-authored by Prof. Karamouzas received a Best Paper Award at the 2026 ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (I3D 2026), held at Lucasfilm in San Francisco. The paper, "Gen-C: Populating Virtual Worlds with Generative Crowds," is authored by Andreas Panayiotou, Panayiotis Charalambous, and Ioannis Karamouzas.i3dsymposium