Dirk Reiners, Ph.D.

Joint Faculty
Associate Professor

Lab:

VARLAB

Office:
HEC 220

Contact:
407-823-2341
Dirk.Reiners@ucf.edu

Appointments

  • Associate Professor, CECS, UCF

  • CTO, CG Heroes LLC

Highlights

Research Activities

  • Micro-Electronics Digital Twin (MeDT)
  • vDen Immersive Display System
  • Multi-User CAVE NSF MRI
  • Digital Twins for Drone Swarm Control and Integration
  • Siemens Package Handling Facility Simulation
  • Criminal Network Visualization
  • Data Pipelines into VR/AR/XR

Professional Activities

  • Papers Chair: ICAT 2016
  • Associate Editor, VR and Industry, Frontiers in Virtual Reality Journal
  • Panel Reviewer NSF
  • Organizing Chairs Committee: IEEE Virtual Reality 2019 (Best Dissertation Co-Chair), 2017 (Workshop Chair), 2016 (Exhibits Chair), 2015 (Research Demo Chair), 2014 (Workshop Chair), 2009 (Local Co-Chair); ISMAR 2018 (Sponsorship Chair), ICAT 2016 (Local Co-Chair)
  • Program committee member: IEEE VR (2020-2008), ISMAR, others
  • Reviewer: IEEE VR, ACM SIGGRAPH, VRST, ISMAR, 3DUI, AutoUI, others

Honors and Awards

  • Best Paper Award, IEEE Virtual Reality 2009
  • Best Paper Award, IITSEC 2005
  • Winner, Sikorsky Entrepreneurial Challenge 2014 (with Dirk Reiners and Don Pierce)
  • Invited Presentations at VRDays Europe 2018, Virtual Reality Summit, Seoul, South Korea, June 2016

Research Interests:

Applications of Virtual and Augmented Reality
Digital Twins
Immersive Display Systems
Interactive Visualization of Large Data
Rendering Systems for Virtual and Augmented Reality

Areas of Expertise:

Augmented Reality (AR)
Digital Engineering
Machine Learning
Mixed Reality
Multimodal Data
Virtual Reality (VR)
Visual Data Analytics

Application Areas:

Academics
Defense
Education
Energy
Healthcare
Medical
Microelectronics and Semiconductor Fabrication
Smart Cities
Space

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