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`Gregory Francis Welch
`Curriculum Vitae — March 22, 2025
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`Contact Information
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`University of Central Florida
`Institute for Simulation and Training
`Computer Science
`College of Nursing
`3100 Technology Parkway
`4000 Central Florida Boulevard
`12201 Research Parkway
`Orlando, FL 32826-3298 (USA) Orlando, FL 32816-2362 (USA) Orlando, FL 32826-3281 (USA)
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`welch@ucf.edu
`+1 407.796.2823
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`Professional Experience (Summary)
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`2011–present University of Central Florida
`Pegasus Professor (2020)
`AdventHealth Endowed Chair in Healthcare Simulation (2013)
`Professor, College of Nursing, Academic Health Sciences Center (2013)
`Professor, Computer Science, College of Engineering and Computer Science (2011)
`Professor, Institute for Simulation & Training (2011)
`Co-Director, IST Synthetic Reality Lab (2011)
`Faculty, Graduate Certificate in Mixed Reality Engineering (2020)
`Faculty, Modeling & Simulation Graduate Program (2011)
`Faculty, Interactive Computing Experiences Research Cluster (2014)
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`1996–2020
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`1990–1992
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`1987–1990
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`University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
`Adjunct Professor, Computer Science (2012-2020)
`Research Professor (Assistant, Associate), Computer Science (1996–2012)
`UNC Site Coordinator, NSF Graphics and Visualization Center (1996–1998)
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`Northrop Defense Systems Division
`Senior Engineer, Airborne Electronic Countermeasures, Digital Systems Group
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`NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (California Institute of Technology)
`Voyager Spacecraft Project, Flight Command and Data Management Section
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`Education
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`May 1997
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`May 1995
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`May 1986
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`Ph.D., Computer Science
`University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
`Under the direction of Gary Bishop
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`M.S., Computer Science
`University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
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`B.S. with Highest Distinction, Electrical Engineering Technology
`Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
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`Personal Awards
`• IEEE Virtual Reality Academy, IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee, March
`13, 2022 during the 28th IEEE Virtual Reality Conference in Christchurch, New Zealand.
`• Scroll & Quill Society, the University of Central Florida, October 1, 2021. The award recognizes
`“sustained and outstanding achievements in research and/or creative activities” at UCF.
`• Pegasus Professor, the University of Central Florida, April 1, 2020. The award recognizes
`faculty excellence in the three primary areas of academic endeavor: teaching, research and
`service. There were approximately 50 Pegasus Professors at UCF in 2020.
`• IEEE Virtual Reality Technical Achievement Award, IEEE Visualization and Graphics Tech-
`nical Committee, “in recognition for his contributions to human motion tracking and to mixed
`reality applications in medicine and training,” March 21, 2018 during the 25th IEEE Virtual
`Reality Conference in Reutlingen, Germany.
`• Luminary Award, University of Central Florida, for “exceptional faculty whose work is advanc-
`ing their discipline and making a difference,” October 18, 2017.
`• Research Incentive Award (RIA), University of Central Florida, for “outstanding research,
`scholarly, or creative activity that advances the body of knowledge in a particular field, includ-
`ing interdisciplinary research and collaborations,” March 7, 2017.
`• Outstanding Performance as Co-Chairman of the IEEE VR 2014 Conference, IEEE Computer
`Society, April 3, 2014.
`• Outstanding Performance as Co-Chairman of the IEEE VR 2013 Conference, IEEE Computer
`Society, March 18, 2013.
`• Rock StAR Award, 15th IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality
`(ISMAR 2016), for teaching role in an introductory course on Augmented Reality (AR) for
`approximately 40 Mexican students interested in AR, September 20, 2016. M´erida, M´exico.
`• Excellence in Teaching Award, UNC-Chapel Hill Computer Science Student Association, for
`3D Computer Modeling and Animation, Spring 2007.
`• Outstanding Senior Design Project Award, “The Easy Chair: A Microprocessor-Controlled
`Wheelchair for Children With Muscular Disorders,” E.T., Purdue University, 1986
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`Joint Awards
`• Virtual Simulation Innovation Award to the UCF CON STIM Center, January 13, 2025.
`• Best Paper Award, “Intuitive user interfaces for real-time magnification in augmented reality,”
`with Ryan Schubert and Gerd Bruder, 29th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and
`Technology (VRST), October 9, 2023.
`• TechConnect Innovation Award, “Intelligent Object Magnification for Augmented Reality Dis-
`plays,” with Dr. Gerd Bruder, Zubin Choudhary, and Dr. Kangsoo Kim. 2021 TechConnect
`Innovation Showcase, October 18-21, 2021, Washington, DC. USA
`• Best Demo Award, “Real Time Magnification in Augmented Reality,” with Zubin Choudhary,
`Jesus Ugarte, and Gerd Bruder. ACM Spatial User Interaction 2021, November 9–10, 2021
`(Virtual).
`• Best Demo Audience Choice Award, “Towards Interactive Virtual Dogs as a Pervasive Social
`Companion in Augmented Reality,” with Nahal Norouzi, Kangsoo Kim, and Gerd Bruder.
`International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence and Eurographics Symposium
`on Virtual Environments (ICAT-EGVE 2020).
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`• Best Long Paper, “Effects of shared gaze parameters on visual target identification task perfor-
`mance in augmented reality,” with Nahal Norouzi, Austin Erickson, Kangsoo Kim, Ryan Schu-
`bert, Joeseph J. LaViola Jr., Gerd Bruder, in Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Spatial
`User Interaction (SUI), page 11, New Orleans, LA USA, October 20 2019. Association of
`Computing Machinery.
`• Best Paper, “The physical-virtual table: Exploring the effects of a virtual human’s physical
`influence on social interaction,” with Myungho Lee, Nahal Norouzi, Gerd Bruder, and Pamela J.
`Wisniewski. 24th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology; Tokyo,
`Japan; December 1, 2018.
`• Best Paper Honorable Mention, “Blowing in the Wind: Increasing Copresence With a Virtual
`Human via Airflow Influence in Augmented Reality,” with Kangsoo KIM and Gerd BRUDER.
`ICAT-EGVE 2018 - International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence and Euro-
`graphics Symposium on Virtual Environments; Limassol, Cyprus; November 9 2018.
`• Best Student Paper, 2017 ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software (VRST 2017), “Ex-
`ploring the effects of observed physicality conflicts on real–virtual human interaction in aug-
`mented reality,” by Kangsoo Kim (student advisee), Gerd Bruder, and Greg Welch; Gothen-
`berg, Sweden; November 10, 2017.
`• Long Lasting Impact Paper, 15th IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented
`Reality (ISMAR 2016), for a pair of 1998 papers on “Spatial Augmented Reality” (SAR), with
`co-authors Prof. Ramesh Raskar, Prof. Henry Fuchs, and Deepak Bandyopadhyay; M´erida,
`M´exico; September 20, 2016.
`• Second Best Paper at 5th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cam-
`eras; Ghent, Belgium; August 25, 2011.
`• Best Paper, ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology 1999 (VRST 99);
`London, England, United Kingdom; December 22, 1999.
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`Advisee Awards (when Advisees)
`• Jonathan Jules (undergraduate advisee), National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering
`(NACME) Scholarship for 2019–2020, September 30, 2019.
`• Salam Daher (Ph.D. advisee), Collegiate Award from the National Center for Women in Tech-
`nology (NCWIT) — four recipients total, May 15, 2018, Grapevine, TX USA.
`• Salam Daher (Ph.D. advisee), RADM Fred Lewis Scholarship Award, Interservice/Industry
`Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ ITSEC), August 5, 2017.
`• Salam Daher (Ph.D. advisee), Link Foundation Fellowship in Modeling, Simulation, and Train-
`ing for the 2016–2017 academic year, March 16, 2016.
`• Joshua Morton (undergraduate advisee), Rodney F. Hood Undergraduate Research Award in
`support of “Tremor Sensing and Quantification” (November 15, 2010–June 30, 2011).
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`Other Honors (Selected)
`• Keynote Talks and Other Invited Talks as indicated below.
`• Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), January 1, 2022.
`• Fellow, National Academy of Inventors (NAI), December 7, 2021.
`• Internationally-recognized Kalman filter web site (http://www.cs.unc.edu/~welch/kalman/)
`and associated article “An Introduction to the Kalman Filter,” UNC Technical Report TR95-
`041, cited over 12,100 times according to Google as of 22 MAR 2025.
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`• Prof. Rudolph Kalman personally invited Prof. Welch to attend the National Academy of
`Engineering ceremony where he was awarded the 2008 Charles Stark Draper Prize for the
`development of what became known as the Kalman Filter.
`• IEEE Technical Expert for Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality, IEEE Public Visibility
`Initiative, 2018–present.
`• Member, World Economic Forum (WEF), Metaverse Governance Working Group (2022–
`present).
`• Member, World Economic Forum (WEF), Global Future Councils, Council on Virtual Reality
`and Augmented Reality (2018–2022).
`• Member, National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB), Futures Task Force
`(2017–2019).
`• Certificate of Appreciation for two-day course on an “Introduction to the Kalman Filter” for
`Autonomy Incubator Short Course Series (AISCS), NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC),
`Hampton, Virginia, November 5-6, 2014,
`• Featured exhibit, Collaborations: Humanities, Arts & Technology (CHAT) Festival,
`“The Bathysphere: Motion Capture as Art,” with Prof. Francesca Talenti, February 16–20,
`2010, UNC-Chapel Hill.
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`Professional Service
`• Professional Associations
`– Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
`– Fellow, National Academy of Inventors (NAI)
`– Member, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
`– Pioneer, ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques
`(SIGGRAPH)
`– Member, European Association for Extended Reality (EuroXR)
`– Member, European Association for Computer Graphics (Eurographics)
`– Member, International Virtual Reality Healthcare Association (Founding Member)
`– Member, Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSIH)
`– Member, International Nursing Association of Clinical Simulation & Learning (INACSL)
`– Member, Southern Nursing Research Society (SNRS)
`• Event Organization
`– SIBGRAPI 2025, with Gustavo Carneiro, Jo˜ao Paulo Papa, and Manuel M. Oliveira.
`September 30 – October 3, 2025, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
`– IEEE Virtual Reality 2025 (VR 2025), 1st Workshop on XR Accessibility (XRACCESS),
`with Bobby Bodenheimer, Gerd Bruder, Dylan Fox, Anne-H´el`ene Olivier, Jeanine Ste-
`fanucci, and Daniel Zielasko. March 9, 2025, Saint-Malo, France.
`– IEEE Virtual Reality 2025 (VR 2025), 1st International Workshop on Real And Vir-
`tual Spaces Influences (REVISI), with Laura Battistel, Kangsoo Kim, Riccardo Parin,
`Massimiliano Zampini, and Gerd Bruder. March 8, 2025, Saint-Malo, France.
`– IEEE Virtual Reality 2024 (VR 2024), Co-General Chair with Carolina Cruz-Neira (Uni-
`versity of Central Florida), March 16–21, 2024, Orlando, FL, USA.
`– EuroXR 2023 General Co-Chair with Patrick Bourdot (University Paris-Saclay, France)
`and Benjamin de Witt (Utrecht, The Netherlands), November 28–30, 2023, Rotterdam,
`The Netherlands.
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`– Workshop on Inclusive and Generalizable Human Subject Research in XR, ISMAR 2022,
`with Stevie Carnell, Gerd Bruder, Jeanine Stefanucci, Sun Joo (Grace) Ahn, Valerie
`Taylor, Tabitha Peck, and Jeremy Bailenson. October 17, 2022, Singapore, Singapore
`(and virtual).
`– Workshop on Considerations for Research Studies in XR, with Nahal Norouzi (University
`of Central Florida), Advertising in the Metaverse, 2022 American Academy of Advertising
`Annual Conference, March 24, 2022, St. Petersburg, FL USA.
`– IEEE Virtual Reality 2020, Best Paper awards committee, November 22–26, 2020. At-
`lanta, Georgia, USA. (Held on-line due to Covid-19.)
`– Extended Reality for Good (XR4Good) workshop, 18th IEEE International Symposium
`on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR 2019), co-organized with Arindam Dey (Uni-
`versity of Queensland), Mark Billinghurst (University of South Australia), Gun Lee (Uni-
`versity of South Australia), and Stephan Lukosch (TU Delft). October 2019, Beijing,
`China.
`– VR 2019 Program Committee Co-Chair, IEEE Virtual Reality 2019 (Osaka, Japan), with
`Bruce Thomas (University of South Australia in Adelaide, Australia), Torsten Kuhlen
`(RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany), and Rob Teather (Carleton University,
`Ottawa, Canada).
`– Augmented Reality Visioning Workshop (ARVW 2018), with Gerd Bruder (University of
`Central Florida) and Peter Squire (Office of Naval Research), July 30–August 3, 2018,
`Warrenton, VA, USA.
`– VR 2018 Program Committee Co-Chair, IEEE Virtual Reality 2018 (Germany), with
`Kiyoshi Kiyokawa (Osaka University, Japan), Frank Steinicke (University of Hamburg,
`Germany), and Bruce Thomas (University of South Australia in Adelaide, Australia).
`– Virtual and Augmented Reality for Good (VAR4Good) workshop, 25th IEEE Conference
`on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR 2018), co-organized with Bruce Thomas,
`Arindam Dey, and Mark Billinghurst (all University of South Australia in Adelaide, Aus-
`tralia), March 18, 2018, Reutlingen, Germany.
`– Augmented Reality for Good (AR4Good) workshop, 16th IEEE International Symposium
`on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR 2017), co-organized with Arindam Dey and
`Mark Billinghurst (both University of South Australia in Adelaide, Australia), October 9,
`2017, Nantes, France.
`– Combined 26th International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence (ICAT
`2016) and 21st Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments (ICAT-EGVE 2016)
`Best Paper Award committee, December 7–9, 2016. Little Rock, Arkansas, USA.
`– ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST 2016) Best Paper
`Award committee, November 2–4, 2016. Munich, Germany.
`– 15th IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR 2016),
`co-organized “AR101,” an introductory course on Augmented Reality (AR) for a group
`of approx. 40 Mexican students interested in AR. September 20, 2016. M´erida, M´exico.
`– 15th IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR 2016),
`Best Paper Award committee, September 19–23, 2016. M´erida, M´exico.
`– ISMAR 2016 Outreach Co-Chair, IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Aug-
`mented Reality (ISMAR2016), M´erida, M´exico, September 19–23, 2016.
`– Workshop “Human Perception and Psychology in Augmented Reality (HPPAR),” with
`Bruce H. Thomas (The University of South Australia Mawson Lakes) and James Baumeis-
`ter (University of South Australia), IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Aug-
`mented Reality (ISMAR2015), September 29, 2015, Fukuoka, Japan.
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`– Dagstuhl Seminar on “Virtual Realities” (Seminar 13241), co-organized with Guido Brun-
`nett (TU Chemnitz, Germany), Sabine Coquillart (INRIA Rhˆone-Alpes, France), and
`Robert van Liere (Center for Mathematics and Computer Science, Netherlands), June
`10–14, 2013, The International Conference and Research Center for Computer Science,
`Dagstuhl, Germany.
`– IEEE Virtual Reality 2013 (VR 2013), Co-General Chair with Ben Lok (University of
`Florida), March 16–23, 2013, Orlando, FL, USA.
`– 11th International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR 2012), Co-
`General Chair with Blair MacIntyre (Georgia Tech), November 5–8, 2012, Atlanta, Geor-
`gia, USA.
`– Joint Virtual Reality Conference 2011 (JVRC 2011), International Program Committee
`Co-chair with Sabine Coquillart (INRIA Rhˆone-Alpes, France) and Anthony Steed (Uni-
`versity College of London, UK).
`– 10th International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR 2011), Program
`Committee Co-Chair with Gerhard Reitmayr (Graz University of Technology) and Jun
`Park (Hongik University).
`– VR 2011 Research Demos Co-Chair, IEEE Virtual Reality 2011 (Singapore), with Dirk
`Reiners (University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA), Henry Duh (National University of
`Singapore), and Jiung-Yao Huang (National Taipei University, Taiwan).
`– VR 2010 Research Demos Co-Chair, IEEE Virtual Reality 2010 (Waltham, MA, USA),
`with Yoshifumi Kitamura (Osaka University, Japan), Laura Monroe (Los Alamos National
`Laboratories, USA), Dirk Reiners (University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA), and Simon
`Richir (Laval Virtual, France).
`– Dagstuhl Seminar on “Virtual Realities” (Seminar 08231), co-organized with Guido Brun-
`nett (TU Chemnitz, Germany) and Sabine Coquillart (INRIA Rhˆone-Alpes, France),
`June 1–6, 2008, The International Conference and Research Center for Computer Sci-
`ence, Dagstuhl, Germany.
`– VR 2007 Local Arrangements Co-Chair, IEEE Virtual Reality 2007 (Charlotte, NC,
`USA), with Zachary Wartell (UNC-Charlotte, USA), Sabarish Babu (UNC-Charlotte,
`USA), and Regis Kopper (Virginia Tech, USA).
`– Workshops/Tutorials Chair, 5th IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Mixed and
`Augmented Reality (Santa Barbara, CA, USA).
`– Co-Chair with Chris Jaynes (University of Kentucky) of IEEE CVPR 2006 International
`Workshop on Projector-Camera Systems, (ProCams 2006), New York, NY, USA.
`– 3DPVT 2006 Organizing Committee, Third International Symposium on 3D Data Pro-
`cessing, Visualization and Transmission (Chapel Hill, NC, USA).
`– EDT 2006 Co-chair, IEEE Virtual Reality 2006 International Workshop on Emerging
`Display Technologies (Alexandria, VA, USA), with Mark Bolas (USC and Fakespace Labs)
`and Andreas Simon (FH-Aargau).
`– ICAT 2005 Program Co-Chair, 15th International Conference on Artificial Reality and
`Telexistence (Christchurch, New Zealand), with Sang Chul Ahn (KIST, Korea), and
`Haruo Noma (ATR, Japan).
`– ProCams 2005 Posters Chair, IEEE CVPR 2005 International Workshop on Projector-
`Camera Systems (San Diego, CA, USA).
`– EDT 2005 Co-chair, IEEE Virtual Reality 2005 International Workshop on Emerging
`Display Technologies (Bonn, Germany), with Mark Bolas (USC and Fakespace Labs) and
`Andreas Simon (Fraunhofer IMK).
`– I3D 2001 Registration Chair, ACM Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics (Chapel Hill,
`NC, USA).
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`• Boards and Committees
`– Member, World Economic Forum (WEF), Metaverse Governance Working Group (2022–
`present).
`– Member, World Economic Forum (WEF), Global Future Councils, Council on Virtual
`Reality and Augmented Reality (2018–2022)
`– Founding Member, International Virtual Reality Healthcare Association, Advisory Board
`(2019–present)
`– Emeritus Member, International Symposium for Mixed & Augmented Reality, Steering
`Committee (2012–2014, Emeritus 2014–present)
`– Member, UCF IST Modeling & Simulation Graduate Program, Advisory Committee
`(2012–present)
`– Member, UCF Information Technology Resource, Advisory Committee (2014–present)
`– Member, UCF Office of Research, COVID-19 Lab Reopening Task Force (2020–2021)
`– Member, National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB), Futures Task
`Force (2017–2019)
`– Senior Advisor, TrakMark Working Group — SIG MR and VR Society of Japan (past)
`– Member, Board of Directors, HiBall Tracker, Inc. (past)
`– Member, UNC Committee on Student Conduct (past)
`– Member, UNC Computer Science Committee on Curriculum and Planning (past)
`– Member, UNC Computer Science Committee on Publications (past)
`• Reviewer, Committee, and Editorial Activity
`– Reviewer/panelist, National Science Foundation (NSF), U.S. Department of Energy (DOE),
`European Research Council, and other funding organizations/units
`– Reviewer, NSF Computing Innovation Fellows
`– Associate Editor, PRESENCE: Virtual and Augmented Reality (2002–present)
`– Associate Editor, Frontiers in Virtual Reality (2014–present)
`– Editorial Board, Virtual Reality & Intelligent Hardware (2019–present)
`– Editorial Board, Journal of Virtual Reality (past)
`– Reviewer, ACM: International Conference on Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIG-
`GRAPH); Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST); Symposium
`on Interactive 3D Graphics; Multimedia; User Interface Software and Technology (UIST);
`Transactions on Mathematical Software;
`– IEEE: Computer Graphics and Applications (CG&A); International Symposium on Mixed
`and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) — Area Chair; Virtual Reality (VR); Transactions on
`Vizualization and Computer Graphics; Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Sys-
`tems; Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
`– Guest Editor, Special Issue, Special Section on Pattern Recognition Letters with the Best
`Papers from SIBGRAPI 2025, Elsevier, 2025.
`– International Symposium on 3D Data Processing, Visualization, and Transmission (3DPVT)
`– International Symposium on Ubiquitous Virtual Reality (ISUVR)
`– IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers
`– The combined International Conference on Artificial Reality & Telexistence and Euro-
`graphics Symposium on Virtual Environments (ICAT-EGVE)
`– EURASIP Journal of Applied Signal Processing; Transactions on Automatic Control
`– Journal of Optimal Control Applications and Methods
`– Eurographics Workshop on Virtual Environments
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`– New Immersive Displays for the Near Future (Laval Virtual 2011 Symposium)
`• Developer of popular free Mac OS X Mail plugins MailFollowUp and MailRecent
`• Testifying intellectual property expert witness / consultant in areas including human-computer
`interaction, virtual and augmented reality, handheld devices, position and motion estimation,
`sensor fusion, interactive electronic systems, and related technology.
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`Keynote/Plenary Talks
`• ISTeC Distinguished Lecture, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, November 13, 2023.
`• IEEE Life Member Affinity Group Inaugural Meeting, Orlando, FL, December 21, 2022.
`• 2nd Workshop on Replication in Extended Reality (WoRXR), ISMAR 2022, Singapore, Sin-
`gapore, October 17, 2022.
`• AI Colloquium, Pusan National University, December 2, 2021.
`• Hoag Advances in Clinical Virtual Reality Symposium, October 1, 2021.
`• Training XR: Workshop on 3D Content Creation for Simulated Training in eXtended Reality,
`IEEE Virtual Reality 2020, on line (originally Atlanta, GA USA), March 22, 2020.
`• ChinaVR 2019, Shenzhen, China, November 24, 2019.
`• 6th ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction, Berlin, Germany, October 13–14, 2018.
`• New Knowledge and Innovations, Sarasota Memorial Health Care System, Sarasota, Florida,
`May 4, 2018.
`• International Conference on Computer-Aided Design and Computer Graphics (CAD/Graphics),
`Zhangjiajie, China, August 26, 2017.
`• Society for Design and Process Science conference (SDPS), Orlando, Florida, December 5,
`2016.
`• Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T), Copen-
`hagen, Denmark, October 16, 2016.
`• 22nd Annual Research Day, Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing, Theta
`Epsilon chapter, Winter Park, Florida, USA, April 8, 2014.
`• Society for Computer Science, Workshop on Virtual Reality-Augmented Reality (GI VR-AR
`2013), W¨urzburg, Germany, September 19, 2013. .
`• International Symposium on Ubiquitous Virtual Reality (ISUVR), Daejeon, South Korea, Au-
`gust 23, 2012.
`• Joint Virtual Reality Conference (JVRC), Fellbach, Germany,
`September 29, 2010.
`• Winter Augmented Reality Meeting (WARM), Graz, Austria,
`February 24–25, 2010.
`• Real Action, Virtual Environments (RAVE), Barcelona, Spain, March 4, 2009.
`• Digital City Monitoring and Emergency Management (D2D), Shenzhen, China, October 25,
`2008.
`• Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments (EGVE),
`Eindhoven, The Netherlands, May 29, 2008.
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`Other Invited Talks (Selected)
`• “Participant Data Considerations for the Virtual Experience Research Accelerator (VERA),”
`University of Maryland, Department of Computer Science, Guest Lecture, May 9, 2024.
`• “The Virtual Experience Research Accelerator (VERA),” ISTeC Distinguished Lecture, Col-
`orado State University, Fort Collins, CO, November 13, 2023.
`• “Universal User Data (UUD) for Virtual Experience Research,” Computer Science Department,
`Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, November 13, 2023.
`• “The Virtual Experience Research Accelerator (VERA) and Universal User Data (UUD),”
`the 22nd IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), 3rd
`Workshop on Replication in Extended Reality (WoRXR), Sydney, Australia, October 16, 2023.
`• “The Virtual Experience Research Accelerator (VERA) and Universal User Data (UUD),” the
`22nd IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), 2nd Work-
`shop on Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, Transparency, and Ethics in XR (IDEA-
`TExR), Sydney, Australia, October 20, 2023.
`• “The Virtual Experience Research Accelerator (VERA),” The 5th XR Access Symposium, New
`York City, USA, June 15, 2023.
`• “Embodied Agents for Simulating, Comforting, and Assisting Humans,” 7th Annual IVRHA
`Virtual Reality and Healthcare Global Symposium, University of Pennsylvania Medicine,
`Philadelphia, PA. March 4, 2023.
`• “How to XR: Hardware & Technology,” World Economic Forum (WEF), Knowledge Lab with
`the Global Future Council on AR/VR 2021, April 29, 2021.
`• “Personal Agents for Workplace (Nursing) Skills and Emotional Support,” HCI and the Future
`of Work and Wellbeing: A Series of Conversations. May 7, 2020, online (Longwood, FL USA).
`• “Physical-Virtual Training for Healthcare,” International Women’s Club of Gothenburg, May
`26, 2020, Gothenburg, Sweden (via video during pandemic).
`• “Aware and Influential Virtual Humans and Animals,” Naval Postgraduate School, MOVES
`lecture, April 13, 2020, Monterey, CA (via video during pandemic).
`• “Vera Real: Stroke assessment using a Physical Virtual Patient (PVP)” with Laura Gonzalez
`and Salam Daher (both UCF), 2019 Conference of the International Nursing Association for
`Clinical Simulation and Learning (INACSL), Phoenix, AZ, June 21, 2019.
`• “Enhanced Perception & Cognition in Augmented Reality (EPiC AR),” Naval Postgraduate
`School, MOVES Open House, May 23, 2019, Monterey, CA.
`• “Identifying User Physical States,” XR Advance Webinar Series, Iowa State University, April
`22, 2019. Lecture series was a follow-up to a June 2017 VR/AR Workshop sponsored by NSF.
`• “Physical-Virtual Patients: Human Shape, Appearance, Awareness, and Influence,” Virtual
`Reality & Health, Tucson, AZ, March 7, 2019.
`• “Human Surrogates: Real, Virtual, and Augmented Shape, Appearance, and Intelligence,”
`Rubin Center for Healthy Aging, Sarasota, Florida, March 3, 2019.
`• “Awareness and Influence of Human Surrogates in Augmented Reality,” 2017 International
`Conference on Computer-Aided Design and Computer Graphics (CAD/Graphics), Zhangjiajie,
`China, August 26, 2017.
`• “Bridging the Telepresence Valley,” 2016 Annual Meeting of the Association for Information
`Science and Technology (ASIS&T), Copenhagen, Denmark, October 16, 2016.
`• “Human Surrogates and their Effects on Humans,” Naval Postgraduate School, MOVES Insti-
`tute, Simulation and Training Course, Monterey, CA, September 8, 2016.
`• “Human Surrogates and their Effects on Humans,” Technische Universit¨at M¨unchen (TU Mu-
`nich), Garching b. Munich, Germany, June 28, 2016.
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`• “Interactive Rear-Projection Physical-Virtual Patient Simulators,” Mini-Lecture at
`NextMed/MMVR22 (Medicine Meets Virtual Reality), Los Angeles, CA, April 7, 2016.
`• “Making the Virtual Real: Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Physical-Virtual Reality,” Ex-
`amination Development & Research committee of the National Council of Architectural Reg-
`istration Boards (NCARB), Phoenix, AZ, January 30, 2016.
`• “My patient is a dummy — so why should I care?” classroom lecture, Rollins College (Winter
`Park, FL), hosted by Darin Hughes, November 11, 2015.
`• “Making the Virtual Real: Physical Manifestations of Dynamic Virtual People, Objects, and
`Places,” Qualcomm/Vienna University of Technology (Vienna, Austria), September 15, 2014.
`• “Making the Virtual Real: Physical Manifestations of Dynamic Virtual People, Objects, and
`Places,” Graz University of Technology (Graz, Austria), September 17, 2014.
`• “Past and Current Research in Modeling and Reproducing Humans for Warfighter Training,”
`Orlando VA Medical Center (Orlando, FL), August 26, 2014.
`• “Making the Virtual Real: Physical Manifestations of Dynamic Virtual People, Objects, and
`Places,” Harris Corporation, Melbourne, FL, February 18, 2014.
`• “Face-to-Face: Interactive Simulation Using a Mobile Physical-Virtual Patient,” work with
`Steven Talbert, Mary Lou Sole, and Karen J. Aroian, SNRS 28th Annual Conference, San
`Antonio, TX, February 15, 2014.
`• “Physical-Virtual Humans for Healthcare,” the University of Texas at San Antonio, San Anto-
`nio, TX, February 13, 2014.
`• “Physical-Virtual Humans for Training and Teleportation,” Max Planck Institute, T¨ubingen,
`Germany, September 17, 2013, and Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences, Bonn,
`Germany, September 20, 2013.
`• “Interactive Shader Lamps: Projector-Based Graphics in Motion,” GI VR-AR (W¨urzburg,
`Germany), September 19, 2013.
`• “Physical-Virtual Humans for Training and Teleportation,” TU Chemnitz (Chemnitz, Ger-
`many), June 6, 2013.
`• “Physical-Virtual Humans: Challenges and Opportunities”, KIST (Seoul, South Korea) and
`KAIST (ISUVR 2012, Daejeon, South Korea), August 22–23, 2012.
`• “Physical Manifestations of Virtual Humans,” Technische Universit¨at M¨unchen (TU Munich);
`Garching b. Munich, Germany; April 11, 2011.
`• “Crossing Realities: The Convergence of Physical and Virtual Worlds,” Microsoft Research;
`Redmond, WA; May 25, 2010.
`• “Crossing Realities: An Overview of Related Work at UNC-Chapel Hill,” Joint Virtual Reality
`Conference (JVRC); Lyon, France; December 7, 2009.
`• “Virtual Artifacts and Experiences in Real Environments,” second RAVE 2009 workshop (Real
`Action, Virtual Environments); Barcelona, Spain; March 4, 2009.
`• “A Living, Breathing, Dynamic Digital City,” D2D 2008 workshop (Digital City Monitoring
`and Emergency Management); Shenzhen, China; October 25, 2008.
`• “Immersive Display Research at UNC-CH: A Sampling,” with Henry Fuchs; Max Planck Insti-
`tute, T¨ubingen, Germany; June 9, 2008..
`• “Motion Tracking as an Epic Battle Between Information and Uncertainty,” 14th Eurographics
`Symposium on Virtual Environments (EGVE 2008); Eindhoven, The Netherlands; May 29,
`2008..
`• “Improving, Expanding and Extending 3D Telepresence,” International Workshop on Advanced
`Information Processing for Ubiquitous Networks, ICAT 2005; Christchurch, New Zealand;
`December 8, 2005..
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`• “3D Telepresence for Off-Line Surgical Training and On-Line Remote Consultation,” 2nd CREST
`Symposium on Telecommunication, Teleimersion and Telexistence; University of Tokyo; De-
`cember 9–10, 2004..
`• “Immersive Telepresence for Surgical Teaching and Remote Consultation: Extending Medical
`Expertise Over Time and Space,” University of Florida, Department of Computer and In-
`formation Science and Engineering; “Geometry, Graphics, Vision, Visualization/ Simulation
`(G2V2)” seminar series; October 17, 2003. .
`• “Sensor Information Efficiency for Pose Estimation,” University of Rochester, Department of
`Computer Science; April 13, 2001..
`• “Inside the HiBall Tracking System,” Siemens Corporate Research, Imaging and Visualization
`Department; Princeton, NJ; October 25, 2000..
`• “Tracking for Interactive Computer Graphics: To the Hallway and Beyond,” the Boeing Cor-
`poration, Virtual Reality Group, Seattle, WA, April 21, 1999. (Also presented at Microsoft
`Research; Seattle, WA; April 21, 1999.).
`• “Spatially-Augmented Visualization,” Walt Disney Imagineering, Virtual Reality Studio; Bur-
`bank, CA; September 1998..
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`Invited Workshop Participation
`• The 22nd IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), 3rd
`Workshop on Replication in Extended Reality (WoRXR), Sydney, Australia, October 16, 2023.
`• The 22nd IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), 2nd
`Workshop on Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, Transparency, and Ethics in XR
`(IDEATExR), Sydney, Australia, October 20, 2023.
`• ACM SIGGRAPH Frontiers Workshop: Digital Avatars: Risks, Harms, Barriers, Opportu-
`nities, with Eakta Jain (Co-Organizer), Apu Kapadia (Co-Organizer), Theodore Kim, and
`Taslima Akter. August 6, 2023, Los Angeles, CA.
`• Anticipating the Metaverse: The Future Of Mixed Reality, invitation-only Workshop at the
`Univers