Category Archives: Undergraduate research

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

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

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

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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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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5 Undergraduate Independent Study Projects On Mobile Augmented Reality Completed in Fall 2019

5 independent undergraduate research projects have been completed in the I^3T lab this semester. In these projects students investigated different elements of mobile augmented reality (AR), including edge-based integration of AR with low-end IoT devices, user perception of different types … Continue reading

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Two Demos Showcased at ACM SenSys’19

Two demos developed in the lab were presented at ACM SenSys’19 in New York City, NY, in November 2019. A demo led by Joseph DeChicchis, titled Adaptive AR Visual Output Security Using Reinforcement Learning Trained Policies, demonstrates how reinforcement learning-based … Continue reading

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

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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