Greetings from HCI@UD Lab Members!
Lab Director

Dr. Roghayeh (Leila) Barmaki
Assistant Professor, Computer and Information Sciences, Data Science Institute, University of Delaware
Leila is interested in solving high-impact research problems related to healthcare education, using applied machine learning and human-centered computing.
Post Doctoral Researcher

Dr. Kangsoo Kim
PhD., University of Central Florida
Kangsoo is a postdoctoral researcher in the HCI Lab at the University of Delaware. Before joining the lab, he was a postdoctoral scholar at the Synthetic Reality Lab (SREAL) in the Institute for Simulation and Training with an appointment in the College of Nursing, University of Central Florida. His research interests include pervasive XR (VR/AR/MR), virtual avatars and agents, social interaction in XR, and enhanced perception and cognition in XR.
Current Students

Zhang Guo
Zhang is a PhD student in the Department of computer and information sciences at the University of Delaware. Her research interests are deep learning, computer vision, and creating virtual/augmentented reality applications.

Jicheng Li
Jicheng Li is a PhD student in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at University of Delaware. His research interests are multi-modal machine learning and facial expression recognition.

Kyle Wang

Sury Gupta
Sury is a graduate student in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at the University of Delaware. His research interests are augmented and virtual reality, computer vision, 360 photo/video analysis, and entrepreneurship.

Taylor Fields
Taylor is an undergraduate student studying Computer Science at the University of Delaware. She is interested in UX/UI and Product Design and Research and Human-Computer Interaction. She also has a minor in Africana Studies and is on the Varsity Women’s Lacrosse team.

Vincent Beardsley
Vincent is an undergraduate honors student at the University of Delaware, working towards a bachelor's degree in computer science with a minor in writing. His interests range over many areas of computer science, including algorithmic analysis, software engineering, operating systems, and many more.

Lauren Baron

Sydney Segear

Krish Matta
Lab Alumni

Jinay Jain
Jinay is an undergraduate student studying computer science at the University of Delaware. His main interests include deep learning, augmented reality, and computer vision.

Yan-Ming (Steve) Chiou
Yan-Ming (Steve) is a PhD student in the Department of computer and information sciences at the University of Delaware. His research interests are social mixed reality, and social robot for cyber-security education.

Matthew Bonham
MSc., University of Delaware
Matt is interested in the natural language processing research, specifically in the healthcare domain.

Alina Christenbury
Alina is a PhD student in computer science at the University of Delaware who is interested in human-computer interaction, game development, and virtual/augmented reality.