Hardy Edmiston Endowed Professor in Computer Science

The Center for Advanced Computer Studies
University of Louisiana at Lafayette

P.O. Box 44330, Lafayette, LA 70504
Office: Oliver/ACTR 342, (337) 482-1023
Lab: Oliver/ACTR 240, (337) 482-1062
e-mail: cwborst (at) gmail.com

B.S., Computer Science, The University of Texas at Austin, 1993
Ph.D., Computer Science, Texas A&M University, 2002

Research Areas:

• Primary: VR, especially 3D interaction, scientific visualization, and transformative applications.
• Secondary: graphics, haptics, and other interface and visualization topics.
• Tertiary: telerobotics.
• Examples: please browse the project pages

Latest News:

• Oct 2019: Borst and Kulshreshth chair ACM SUI Symposium
• Sep 2019: Lab research featured in La Louisiane
• Apr 2019: New Equipment Grant for VR Research, Education, and Outreach
• Aug 2018: New NSF Grant for Eye-Tracked VR Research
• Aug 2018: Lab assistants featured in Gigavation video highlighting community impact
• Lab Shows Intercontinental Networked VR and Receives Grants from Mozilla and US Ignite
• VR Lab Wins Best Research Demo Award at the IEEE Virtual Reality 2017 Conference
• Borst Named State Winner of LACUE’s 2016 Post-Secondary Educator Award
• Educational VR Research Receives 2016 US Ignite Demo Award
• REU student Sam Ekong receives 2015 Excellence in Undergraduate Research award

Assistantships or Internships: See VR Lab Home.

Teaching:

• Fall 2019

  • 415-Computer Graphics (undergraduate)
  • 515-Computer Graphics (graduate)
• Spring 2020 – 499/598-Virtual Reality
• 490/590/619/599/699 – Projects and Thesis.

Office hours are listed on Moodle under the CMPS 415 course. E-mail or call for other meeting times.

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