Author Archives: Maria Gorlatova

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.

SenSys 2022 Demo: Through an AR Lens

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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ACM UbiComp 2022 Best Poster Award

A poster we presented at ACM UbiComp 2022 in Cambridge, UK, titled “IoT-Enabled Environment Illuminance Optimization for Augmented Reality“, received the ACM UbiComp’22 Best Poster Award. [ Poster submission  ] [ Poster presented at the conference ] This poster outlines a system that uses a smart … Continue reading →

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Two papers appearing at IEEE ISMAR’22

We are delighted to have two of lab’s papers appear at the top AR/MR conference, IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) 2022 (acceptance rate: 21%). In a paper led by PhD student Sarah Eom titled NeuroLens: Augmented … Continue reading →

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AI Institute I3T Lab Showcase

At the Athena AI Institute‘s 1st Annual Summit held at Duke University in August 2022, 4 members of the lab presented posters and showcased the work of the lab during the I3T Lab Tour. The projects showcased during the summit covered … Continue reading →

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Summer REU Presentation: Real-time Object Detection for AR-aided Language Learning

Jeremy Suh, Grand Challenges in Engineering NSF REU Fellow at the Pratt School of Engineering, who has spent his summer in the I^3T Lab, has presented a poster and a demo of his work at the Duke University summer REU showcase. Jeremy … Continue reading →

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IEEE INFOCOM 2022 Paper and Demo

This week Ying Chen is presenting our work on evaluating and exploiting characteristics of user pose in VR at IEEE INFOCOM’22, in a paper and an accompanying demonstration:  VR Viewport Pose Model for Quantifying and Exploiting Frame Correlations presents the … Continue reading →

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CPS-IoT Week 2022: I3T Lab’s Paper, Workshop, and Demo

We are presenting at 3 CPS-IoT Week sessions this week: IPSN’22: EyeSyn: Psychology-inspired Eye Movement Synthesis for Gaze-based Activity Recognition presents the first method for synthesizing eye movement data for training eye movement-based activity classifiers for AR and VR without human … Continue reading →

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ECE Independent Study Best Poster Award for Alex Xu’s Work

Heartfelt congratulations to Alex Hu for receiving the Spring 2022 ECE Independent Study Best Poster Award, for his poster titled “Impact of the Environment on Eye Tracking Efficacy in Headset Augmented Reality“. The poster was prepared as part of Alex’s … Continue reading →

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I3T Lab Hiring a Postdoc

Duke University I^3T Lab has an opening for a postdoc.  We work in the area of pervasive mobile and sensing systems broadly, and pervasive mobile Augmented Reality (AR) and next-generation intelligence for the Internet of Things in particular. Our work is generously supported by the … Continue reading →

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Two Papers Appearing at Workshops Co-Located with IEEE VR 2022

Two papers from the group are set to be presented at workshops co-located with IEEE VR 2022. Both papers are centered on end applications of next-generation augmented reality (AR) techniques we are currently developing in our lab.

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