Category Archives: Highlights

Recent I3T Lab graduate Sarah Eom highlighted by the Duke University Center for Computational and Digital Health Innovation

Posted on June 10, 2026 by admin

Sarah Eom, PhD, was highlighted by the Duke University Center for Computational and Digital Health Innovation for her work at the intersection of next-generation immersive systems and healthcare. Congratulations Dr. Eom!

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I3T Lab Tour a Part of Regional NAE Meeting

Posted on May 27, 2026 by admin

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 … Continue reading →

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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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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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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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AI Institute I3T Lab Showcase

Posted on August 29, 2022 by admin

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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Apple is coming to Durham

Posted on April 26, 2021 by admin

Delightful news today: Apple is planning to build a brand new campus here in Durham, spending 1 bln dollars over 10 years, and creating 3,000 highly skilled jobs, in particularly in AI, ML, and software engineering. Exciting news for the … Continue reading →

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ACM SenSys’20 paper: Gaze-based Cognitive Context Sensing

Posted on December 19, 2020 by admin

In our recent work that appeared in ACM SenSys 2020, we take a close look at the detection of cognitive context, the state of the person’s mind, through users’ eye tracking. Eye tracking is a fascinating human sensing modality. Eye movements … Continue reading →

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Undergraduate Students Presenting Their Work on Next-generation Augmented Reality at Duke University Undergraduate Research Showcases

Posted on April 24, 2019 by admin

Three undergraduate students have presented the results of their independent studies in CS and ECE poster sessions and demonstrations here at Duke University. Michael Glushakov presented a poster and a demo of his work on edge computing-supported augmented reality with … Continue reading →

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Academic Job Market: One Experience

Posted on August 20, 2018 by admin

This post is intended as a “sample point”, and a bit of informal guidance, for people who are on the academic job market, or will be going on it soon. Throughout the different phases of the job market, I’ve relied … Continue reading →

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