Ravin's research focuses on developing and evaluating novel interaction and visualization techniques and systems for a variety of devices and application scenarios. He is well known for his work on interfaces for new display formats such as 3D displays, surfaces, and ambient displays, enhancing and modeling target acquisition, adding physical simulation to the interface, and sketching interfaces. In addition to his primary appointment at the University of Toronto, Ravin has been a visiting researcher at Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL), INRIA and the University of Paris, Microsoft Research (Redmond, Beijing, Bangalore and Cambridge), and HP Labs (Bangalore). He has also actively pursued tech-transfer of his research to industry via several startups, and regularly serves on editorial boards and conference committees for the HCI and Graphics communities.