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2025 in the Duke I3T Lab: Students, Systems, and Community

Posted on January 5, 2026 by admin

In 2025, two Duke I3T Lab members received their PhDs and moved on to exciting careers in industry: Dr. Sarah Eom joined Exponent as a Biomedical Engineering Consultant; Dr. Lin Duan joined NVIDIA as an XR-AI Engineer. There were several exciting developments in … Continue reading →

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From Gaming Gear to ICU Rehabilitation: Bringing XR into Clinical Practice

Posted on December 27, 2025 by admin

The November 2025 issue of Duke I/O Magazine includes an article titled “Transforming Reality: How Gaming Gear is Impacting Health Care,” featuring a lovely summary of our ongoing collaboration with the Duke University School of Nursing. Together, we are designing … Continue reading →

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Edge Computing’s Next Decade: Intelligent Spatial Systems – and a Responsibility to Get Them Right

Posted on December 24, 2025 by admin

It was my genuine pleasure to get to share my thoughts about the past and future of edge computing at the ACM Symposium on Edge Computing 2025 panel, “Looking Back and Moving Forward: 10 Years of Edge Computing.” My highest-level … Continue reading →

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Invited Talk at Augmented World Expo (AWE) USA 2025

Posted on July 2, 2025 by admin

Speaking at Augmented World Expo (AWE) USA, a premier industry XR for a second time – what a thrill! Last time I presented at AWE was back in 2021, when my talk was about edge- and IoT-supported AR. This time … Continue reading →

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Gorgeous Saint-Malo; Thanks to IEEE VR 2025 for Bringing us There

Posted on April 10, 2025 by admin

I try to go for brief outdoor runs whenever I travel for work. In colder climates, that requires packing the suitcase a bit tighter, but it is generally worth it, as it gives me a fresh perspective on the places … Continue reading →

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Postdoc in Context-aware Augmented Reality

Posted on July 17, 2023 by admin

Duke University I3T Lab is looking for a postdoc in the area of edge computing-supported context-aware augmented reality. The postdoc will work closely with PI Gorlatova and two very capable and driven ECE and CS PhD students, and will have … Continue reading →

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Duke VISION Magazine Profile

Posted on July 10, 2023 by admin

Sarah Eom’s research on augmented reality for retinal laser therapy is profiled by the Duke Eye Center VISION Magazine. This project, done in collaboration with Miroslav Pajic (Duke ECE) and Majda Hadziahmetovic (Duke Ophthalmology), not only demonstrates a new application of augmented reality, but … Continue reading →

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Spring 2023 Student Successes

Posted on May 18, 2023 by admin

We have had an exciting end of the Spring 2023 semester, with many recognitions of outstanding and cross-disciplinary achievements of group’s students. Neha Vutakuri‘s year-long engagement with the lab culminated with a successful undergraduate dissertation defense and graduation with distinction … Continue reading →

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Appearing at IEEE INFOCOM’23: Edge-Assisted Adaptive SLAM with Resource Constraints

Posted on February 4, 2023 by admin

AdaptSLAM, our recent work led by Ying Chen, explores new approaches for adapting edge computing-supported Visual and Visual-Inertial Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (V- and VI-SLAM) to computation and communication resource constraints. Adapt SLAM’s system architecture. Our design centers on the … Continue reading →

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SenSys 2022 Demo: Through an AR Lens

Posted on November 11, 2022 by admin

Sarah Eom has demonstrated our ongoing work on AR-based magnification for hand-held loupes at ACM SenSys’22 in Boston, MA. This work is based on a collaboration with Miroslav Pajic (Duke ECE) and Majda Hadziahmetovic (Duke Ophthalmology). [Demo description PDF] [Accompanying poster PDF]

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