The Virtual Reality Lab at CACS attracts students from several different disciplines and backgrounds.

Summer 2017 Kvasir-VR group: Top row: Jarret Delle Donne (REU), Sam Ekong (MS), Dr. Christoph Borst, Jason Woodworth (PhD student), Nicholas Lipari (MS ; PhD student), Adam Prejean (artist). Bottom: Paul Smith (REU), Deandrea Metoyer (REU), and Adil Khokhar (PhD student).

Current VR Lab Personnel

Dr. Christoph W. Borst (Lab director): 3D Interaction for VR; Networked or Collaborative VR; Haptic Interfaces; Computer Graphics; Telerobotics

Adil Khokhar (PhD student): Eye Tracking, Educational VR

Md Istiak Jaman Ami (PhD student): Affective Computing, Human-Computer Interaction

VR Lab Alumni

Prabhakar Vemavarapu: Touch Interfaces for VR and visualization. Lead Software Engineer at NeuroTrainer.

Jason Woodworth (Instructor): Educational VR, Networked VR

Niloofar Heidarikohol: Emotional Resilience, Emotional Intelligence

Julia Johnson: Patient monitoring for surgical telerobotics. VR for Emotion Regulation. Received Bradd Clark Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research

Nicholas Lipari (Instructor): Vibrotactile Haptic Feedback; Human Factors; Perception and Psychophysics

Sam Ekong: Networked VR; Graph Summarization; Ray-tracing. Received Bradd Clark Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research. Software Engineer at Google.

Mores Prachyabrued: Assistant Dean for Digital Media Technology and Learning, Mahidol University, Thailand

Kaushik Das: Menu Interactions in VR. Co founder/Technical Director at WhoDat, Bengaluru, India

Jan-Phillip Tiesel: Volumetric Lens Rendering, Geological Visualization, Computer Animation. Working at Amazon as a Software Development Manager. Previously a developer for La-Well GmbH.

David Ducrest: Production Director at ExploreLearning, Athens, GA. Previously Head of Production at Cogent Education.

Phanidhar Raghupathy: Force Feedback for Drawing on Surfaces. Software Engineer at Amazon, Seattle, WA

Vijay Baiyya: Vibrotactile Feedback, Haptic Glyphs. Working at Meta Reality Labs Research as a Software Engineer. Previously a Senior Mobile Robotics Software Engineer at Nvidia, and at Microsoft in the Windows Gaming experience group, Xbox Kinect Platform team, and Hololens team.

Chris M. Best: Volumetric Windows, Geological Visualization. Working at Garmin in Salem, OR. Previously a Graphics Programmer at Engility Corporation.

Arun P. Indugula: Distributed/Networked VR, Scientific Visualization, Grasping with Force Feedback. Previously a software engineer at Fusion Petroleum Technologies, research and development in 3D Visualization and geosciences algorithms. Now a Software Engineer at Google.

Alp Asutay: Distributed/Networked Virtual Reality, Vibrotactile Feedback. Software Engineer at Hitachi Data Systems.

Andrew Yoshimura: Eye Tracking, Educational VR. Lead Software Engineer at Immersive Wisdom.

Bharat KC: Emotion Recognition. Software Engineer at Amazon.

Bhoj Bahadur Karki: AI/ML and VR Eye Tracking. Software Engineer at American Airlines.

David Broussard: Educational Simulation for Chemistry and Networked Classrooms, Distance Grabbing Techniques

NSF REU Students (Research Experience for Undergraduates)

The following undergraduate students contributed to VR Lab works: Will Bass, Andrew Wise, Jarret Delle Donne, Deandre Metoyer, Paul Smith, and Andrew Yoshimura.

Other Students

The following students contributed to earlier VR Lab projects, completed project-based MS degrees, or participated during other project credits under Dr. Borst:

Graduate: Adam Guichard, David Pope, Jyostna Chalimella, Jagannath Yammada, Joel Gonzales, Daro Eghagha, Tulasi Chandana, Hiroshi Hayakawa, Eric Lissard, Jason Rydberg, Sudhir Konduru, Oladiran Gideon Olaleye, Lance Lasseigne, Kary Ritter, and Jonathan McRae.

Undergraduate: Anthony Kuczynski, Matthew Price, Joshua Buller, Francis Gatch, Nathan Bryant, Matt Richard, and Collin Faucheux.

We are always happy to get updates from past students!

Fall 2007 group: Mores Prachyabrued (PhD), Nicholas Lipari (PhD student), Christopher Best (MS), Jan-Phillip Tiesel (MS), Dr. Christoph Borst, Vijay Baiyya (MS), Kaushik Das (MS), David Ducrest (MS, depicted by an invisible stunt double).