Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates Students Presenting Their Work on Edge Computing and Augmented Reality

Posted on July 26, 2019 by Maria Gorlatova

Two summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates students have presented their summer projects at the Duke University REU showcase.

Courtney Johnson presenting his summer research on precision eye tracking for Magic Leap performance and user experience optimization.

Jovan Stojkovic, Duke ECE REU Fellow and a rising senior at the University of Belgrade, presented his poster titled Edge Computing Platform for Collaborative Augmented Reality. Over the summer, Jovan has built a platform that allows multiple users’ related images, captured with Android phones running Google ARCore, to be processed jointly on an edge server, improving user’s quality of object recognition.

Courtney Johnson, Grand Challenges in Engineering NSF REU Fellow at the Pratt School of Engineering and a rising junior at North Carolina A&T State University, presented his poster titled Intelligent Augmented Reality Adaptation to Users’ Eyes. Over the summer, Courtney has been exploring a range of uses of precision eye tracking, available in modern augmented reality headsets, to optimize the performance of augmented reality systems.

Both Jovan’s and Courtney’s research results will be integrated into paper submissions later this year.

About Maria Gorlatova

Dr. Maria Gorlatova is the Sternberg Family Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University. Her research centers on pervasive computing technologies, with a focus on spatial computing and next-generation augmented reality. She received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University and her M.Sc. and B.Sc. degrees (Summa Cum Laude) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Ottawa, Canada. She spent two years at Princeton University’s Electrical Engineering Department as an Associate Research Scholar and Associate Director of the Princeton University EDGE Lab. Dr. Gorlatova was named one of the N2Women Rising Stars and has received multiple awards, including the NSF CAREER Award, the DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA), the DARPA Director’s Fellowship, the IEEE ISMAR 2025 Best Paper Award, the IEEE Communications Society Award for Advances in Communications, and research awards from Meta, Cisco, and IBM. She served as the TPC Co-chair of ACM/IEEE IPSN 2023, the General Co-Chair of the 2025 NSF Workshop on Networking and Systems Challenges in Immersive Computing, and the TPC Co-chair of ACM/IEEE SenSys 2025.
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