My research interests span mobile virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) systems for immersive communication, UAV-IoT sensing and communication, emerging 5G and IoT architectures and edge-based computing and caching in small-cell networks, mullimeter wave and free space optics mobile networking, 360-degree video streaming, and accelerated reinforcement learning for stochastic control in communications systems and robotics. I also investigate interdisciplinary applications of UAV-IoT-enabled networked VR/AR immersion and VR-AI based automated low-vision rehabilitation.

Laboratory: I lead the Laboratory for Next Generation Virtual and Augmented Reality Communications and Networked Systems at NJIT. The lab features state-of-the-art equipment: Immersive 3D displays, visual/range IoT sensors, VR/AR headsets, millimeter wave and free optics transceivers, IoT drones, 5G SDR boards.

Funding: I gratefully acknowledge the support of the NSF, NIH, AFOSR, Adobe, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Tencent.

Link to old projects.

Recent collaboration: Gwendal Simon (Telecom Bretagne), Nick Mastronarde (U. Buffalo), Vishy Swaminathan (Adobe), Jie Xu (U. Miami), Fatemeh Afghah (Northern Arizona University), Alisa Devlic (Huawei), Charles O'Neill (U. Alabama), Zheng O'Neill (U. Alabama), John Woods (RPI), Koushik Kar (RPI), Vladan Velisavljevic (U. Bedfordshire), Ricardo Queiroz (U. Brasilia), Camilo Dorea (U. Brasilia), Guido Cervone (Penn State), Ismail Guvenc (NC State), Abdallah Khreishah (NJIT).


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