Kwame Agyemang Baffour is a third year PhD student in Computer Science at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His research interests are in virtual and augmented reality applications with a focus on user perception of photorealistic avatars.He holds a Master of Philosophy in Computer Science from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. Before starting his PhD at the Graduate Center, Kwame worked as a lecturer in the department of Computer Science and Informatics at the University of Energy and Natural Resources.