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Jasmine Joyce DeGuzman Awarded Best Paper at IEEE VR 2025 March 17, 2025
SREAL publication wins Best Paper at ACM VRST 2023 October 12, 2023
XR Accessibility Dagstuhl Seminar Accepted July 19, 2023
Virtual Experience Research Accelerator (VERA) announced by NSF and UCF April 26, 2023
Article accepted at ACM Transactions on Applied Perception Journal November 3, 2022
Summer REU paper accepted to ISMAR Workshop August 9, 2022
Alumnus Dr. Salam Daher receives teaching award April 20, 2022
Faith Sauber, UCF’s first-ever EuroScholar prepares for trip to Switzerland February 10, 2022
Gregory Welch, PhD – Selected as IEEE Fellow January 12, 2022
UCF Professor Greg Welch Named to the National Academy of Inventors December 12, 2021
Salam Daher, PhD – Selected as 2021 Technology Innovator of the Year December 12, 2021
Nahal Norouzi defended her PhD in Computer Science on November 4, 2021 December 7, 2021
TechConnect 2021 Innovation Award October 28, 2021
Dr. Welch is one of 21 Faculty Members Inducted into UCF Scroll and Quill Society October 22, 2021
Summer REU project accepted to ACM SUI 2021 September 25, 2021
DC Paper Accepted to IEEE ISMAR 2021 August 7, 2021
Congratulations Greg! Your article is among the top 10% most cited PLOS ONE papers published in 2019. July 29, 2021
AR Dark Mode Paper Accepted to ACM TAP March 10, 2021
Two papers accepted to VAMR 2021! March 2, 2021
Nahal Norouzi awarded Best Demo Audience Choice Award for ICAT-EGVE 2020 December 4, 2020
Successful ICAT-EGVE 2020 (Prof. Gerd Bruder) December 4, 2020
Jonathan Jules heading to Visual Concepts (2k Games)! December 4, 2020
Two Conference Papers Accepted to ICAT-EGVE 2020! October 16, 2020
Conference paper accepted to ACM SUI 2020 September 15, 2020
One paper has been accepted at the International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction July 26, 2020
Professor Welch Featured in IEEE Transmitter Article July 16, 2020
Our paper has been accepted at Springer Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces June 1, 2020
Jonathan Jules – Internship update May 11, 2020
Dr. Welch selected as a 2020 Pegasus Professor April 1, 2020
Five papers (One TVCG Journal and Four Conference Papers) have been accepted at IEEE VR 2020! February 1, 2020
A Tutorial about Embodied Interactive Virtual Characters has been accepted at IEEE VR 2020 January 23, 2020
Nahal Norouzi Accepted to Doctoral Consortium at IEEE VR 2020 January 10, 2020 January 16, 2020
Nahal Norouzi and Austin Erickson awarded Best Paper at SUI 2019 October 21, 2019 October 22, 2019
Jonathan Jules awarded the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME) Scholarship October 4, 2019
Austin Erickson Accepted to Doctoral Consortium at ISMAR 2019 August 12, 2019
Three full papers accepted at ACM SUI 2019. August 12, 2019
Congratulations to our SREAL PhD Graduate Jason Hochreiter August 3, 2019
WFTV covers research done in UCF SREAL Lab (click to see video) July 25, 2019
Austin Erickson awarded presentation fellowship for ISMAR 2019 July 18, 2019
Four full papers submitted at ACM SUI 2019 July 13, 2019
Two conference papers accepted at IEEE ISMAR 2019 July 13, 2019
One journal article has been published at the Elsevier Computers and Graphics (CAG) journal. July 5, 2019
XR Advance, now with Episode Guides July 3, 2019
Jason Hochreiter defended his PhD in Computer Science on June 24, 2019 June 24, 2019
One paper accepted at Elsevier Computers & Graphics Journal June 17, 2019
Congratulations to our SREAL PhD Graduate Myungho Lee May 2, 2019
Myungho Lee defended his PhD in Computer Science on April 2, 2019. April 2, 2019
One paper submitted to Elsevier Computers & Graphics Journal March 15, 2019
Divine Maloney (2016 Summer Intern in the SREAL Lab at UCF) receives Microsoft Research Ada Lovelace Fellowship January 18, 2019
Professor Welch was interviewed for a British Sunday Times Article – Where technology breakthroughs could take us next. January 14, 2019
Congratulations to our SREAL PhD Graduates Kangsoo Kim and Salam Daher December 14, 2018
Salam Daher defended her PhD in Modeling and Simulation on Oct 25, 2018. December 14, 2018
Myungho Lee awarded Best Paper at VRST 2018 November 29, 2018
Gerd Bruder earned Best Paper Award at ICAT-EGVE 2018 November 12, 2018
Kangsoo Kim got an Honorable Mention Award at ICAT-EGVE 2018 in Limassol, Cyprus. November 10, 2018
Kangsoo Kim defended his PhD in Computer Science on Oct 30, 2018. November 10, 2018
Nice NASA article on M&S alum Angelica Garcia November 8, 2018
Prof. Welch to serve on WEF Council on VR/AR November 2, 2018
Sungchul got Best Paper Award at ACM SUI 2018 in Berlin October 14, 2018
Five full papers are accepted at ICAT-EGVE 2018. September 26, 2018
One poster paper is accepted at ISMAR 2018. August 1, 2018
Two papers are accepted at IVA 2018. August 1, 2018
Two papers (TVCG and ISMAR) in press. July 18, 2018
One poster paper is submitted to ISMAR 2018. July 18, 2018
Myungho Lee will start a research internship at Microsoft in WA for part of Summer/Fall 2018. June 29, 2018
Two papers have been conditionally accepted at ISMAR 2018 (one as a form of TVCG Special Issue and the other as a conference paper). June 29, 2018
Myungho Lee passed his doctoral dissertation proposal June 11, 2018
Kangsoo Kim started a research internship at Army Research Laboratory West, Playa Vista, CA for Summer 2018. May 23, 2018
NCWIT Collegiate Award 2018 (Salam Daher) May 21, 2018
Kangsoo Kim passed his doctoral dissertation proposal. May 18, 2018
Sungchul Jung completes Ph.D., with dissertation: Personalized Digital Body: Enhancing Body Ownership and Spatial Presence in Virtual Reality March 30, 2018
Dr. Welch awarded IEEE VGTC Virtual Reality Technical Achievement Award March 21, 2018
Salam Daher chosen as NCWIT 2018 Collegiate Finalist February 2, 2018
Myungho and Jason chosen for Doctoral Consortium @ IEEE VR 2018 January 9, 2018
Sungchul Jung was awarded a “Dissertation Completion Fellowship” for Spring 2018. December 21, 2017
Antoniya Petkova received her Ph.D. at the UCF Fall 2017 Commencement December 16, 2017
Behnaz Nojavanasghari received her Ph.D. at the UCF Fall 2017 Commencement December 16, 2017
Dr. Welch interviewed for National Defense: NDIA’s Business and Technology Magazine. December 14, 2017
Kangsoo Kim awarded Best Student Paper at VRST November 14, 2017
Nikhil Patel accepted to Yale’s Computer Science Bachelor’s Program in Fall 2017. August 19, 2017
Salam awarded RADM Fred Lewis Post Graduate I/ITSEC Scholarship (2017-2018) August 5, 2017
Behnaz Najavanasghari spent summer 2017 as a research Intern at Educational Testing Service (ETS), Princeton, NJ. August 3, 2017
Sungchul Jung spent summer 2017 as a research intern in the VR group at Universal Studios, Orlando, FL. August 3, 2017
Sapna Patel receives award at the 2017 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. May 19, 2017
IEEE VR 2017 Doctoral Consortium Fellowship goes to Salam Daher February 28, 2017
Salam Daher awarded Link Fellowship 2016-2017 May 3, 2016

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