It was our sincere pleasure to offer a Duke I3T Lab Tour as part of the National Academy of Engineers Regional Meeting held at Duke University in May 2026.
May 2026 NAE Regional Meeting attendees exploring live AR and VR demonstrations as part of the Duke University Pratt School of Engineering lab tour
Just like the Frontiers of Engineering (FOE) NAE Symposium I attended back in 2021, the Regional Meeting was a real treat: it outlined both the promise and the challenges in the exciting and important space of commercial aviation, from multiple technical and non-technical perspectives. Like the FOE Symposium, it reminded me how exciting it is to be an engineer: to have not only an in-depth understanding of the problems and the underlying processes, but also know how to solve them. Thankful for the organizers for the opportunity to participate in this event and to contribute to it. [ Short video with several snippets from the lab tour ]
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.
