Category Archives: Achievement

I am a Bass Chair!

Posted on May 16, 2026 by admin

I am one of only nine faculty, across all of Duke, to be named the 2026 Bass Chair – the honor that recognizes faculty whose teaching and research exemplify Duke’s commitment to undergraduate education.

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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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80 Races Completed!

Posted on November 16, 2025 by admin

By 2015, I had completed 50 races – reflections, from back then, are here. Ten years and five months later — also, two kids, one global pandemic, and one conquered tenure track later — I have now completed 80. My 80th … Continue reading →

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IEEE ISMAR 2025 Best Paper Award

Posted on October 18, 2025 by admin

Our paper titled “Detecting Visual Information Manipulation Attacks in Augmented Reality: A Multimodal Semantic Reasoning Approach” has been recognized with the Best Paper Award at IEEE ISMAR 2025, the premier XR conference. Heartfelt congratulations to the lead author, PhD student Yanming … Continue reading →

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Three Papers Appearing at IEEE ISMAR 2025

Posted on September 1, 2025 by admin

Three Duke I3T papers are appearing at IEEE ISMAR 2025: XR Reality Check: What Commercial Devices Deliver for Spatial Tracking evaluates tracking capabilities of 5 state-of-the-art XR devices (spoiler alert: Apple Vision Pro wins; also, all platforms meet perceptual requirements … 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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ACM UbiComp 2022 Best Poster Award

Posted on October 3, 2022 by admin

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

Posted on September 1, 2022 by admin

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

Posted on January 27, 2022 by admin

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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2021 US NAE Frontiers of Engineering Symposium

Posted on March 1, 2021 by admin

It was a true pleasure to attend the 2021 National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering Symposium (NAE FOE). The NAE FOE is unique in bringing together engineers from all engineering disciplines. It was a blast. A rare opportunity to … Continue reading →

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