Jointly with the the group of Prof. Neil Gong, we were the finalists for the Facebook Research Exploration of Trust in AR, VR, and Smart Devices Awards.
PI Gorlatova has previously contributed to the 2019 University of Washington Industry-Academia Summit on Mixed Reality Security, Privacy, and Safety, and the associated Summit Report. Our group continues to explore several topics directly related to AR security, privacy, and safety, such as examining the uncertainties in spatial stability of holograms in a given environment and training of eye tracking-based cognitive context classifiers with privacy-preserving techniques relying on limited user data.
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.
