Category Archives: Funding and Awards

New Funding: 4-year NSF CISE FutureCore Award on Automated AR Guidance Monitoring

Posted on July 27, 2026 by admin

We are grateful to the NSF for supporting our work on automated AR guidance monitoring, in pervasive AR and human-robot collaboration (HRC) applications. This award will support our joint work with Miroslav Pajic’s group at Duke, which is very exciting … Continue reading →

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

Posted on April 25, 2022 by admin

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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IEEE/ACM IPSN Paper: Edge-assisted Collaborative Image Recognition for Mobile Augmented Reality

Posted on May 18, 2020 by admin

Our paper on image recognition for mobile augmented reality in the presence of image distortions appeared in IEEE/ACM IPSN’20 and received the conference’s Best Research Artifact Award [ Paper PDF ] [ Presentation slides ] [ Video of the presentation … Continue reading →

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NSF Computer Systems Research Grant: Multi-tier Service Architecture in IoT-Edge-Cloud-Paradigms

Posted on November 1, 2018 by admin

Yale University Prof. Wenjun Hu and Duke University Prof. Maria Gorlatova received an NSF Computer Systems Research (CSR) Small Collaborative grant to examine joint concurrent optimization of multiple applications in multi-tier edge/fog computing architectures. [Award Information]

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Microsoft Azure Research Award

Posted on July 21, 2017 by admin

We are grateful to Microsoft for supporting our work with a Microsoft Azure Research Award, which provides us the equivalent of $20,000 in Azure computing services. The award will help us study new fog-specific computing program decompositions and performance-costs tradeoffs … Continue reading →

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Postdocs in Canada: Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships

Posted on September 19, 2012 by admin

I have not been keeping up with Canadian NSERC grant options, and only now discovered Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships, that offer attractive postdoctoral salaries to both Canadian and international researchers. Fantastic opportunities for foreigners that want to build a scientific career … Continue reading →

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