Keynote Speakers

Doug Bowman

Doug A. Bowman is the Frank J. Maher Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Center for Human-Computer Interaction at Virginia Tech. He is the principal investigator of the 3D Interaction Group, focusing on the topics of three-dimensional user interface design and the effects of fidelity in virtual environments. Dr. Bowman is a co-author of the book 3D User Interfaces: Theory and Practice. He has served as program chair, general chair, and steering committee chair of the IEEE Virtual Reality Conference, and was one of the founding co-chairs of the IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces. He received a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation for his work on 3D Interaction, and has been named an ACM Distinguished Scientist.

Eyal Ofek

Prof. Eyal Ofek is a chair of computer Science at the University of Birmingham. His research focused on using sensing and scene understanding for Human-Computer Interaction and using sensing and Mixed Reality (MR), enabling better collaboration and more inclusive workspace. His contributions include the development of the world’s first time-of-flight depth camera (used by Microsoft and MagicLeap), design and development of the first street-side mapping service, development of novel algorithms for scene analysis and layout of augmented reality (used by HoloLens and Unity MARS) and more. Prof. Ofek has published over 100 academic papers and granted over 120 patents in the area of computer vision, HCI and location-based services. He has been a principal researcher at Microsoft Research Lab (MSR) in Redmond WA, he founded MSR’s Augmented Reality research group and headed the Bing Maps research team. He served as the speciality editor of Haptics for Frontiers of Virtual Reality, a Co-paper chair of ACM SIGSPATIAL 2011, a member of IEEE CG&A editorial board, and an AC of CHI, UIST, CVPR, ISS and ISMAR.

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