September 2023 Newsletter

Congratulations to Rifatul Islam on grant funding. This is a collaborative project by the University of Texas at San Antonio (PI: John Quarles) in collaboration with Kennesaw State University (Co-PI: Rifatul Islam), supported by a $475K budget over a span of 36 months from DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory. The project aims to address the prevalent issue of cybersickness among army personnel during Extended Reality (XR) exposures. This initiative responds to the significant challenges posed by cybersickness, as observed with tools like the Army's $22 billion Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) headset, which has been reported to induce severe symptoms.  Rifatul’s team will primarily lead the development of personalized cybersickness prediction and reduction efforts.

Elliot Larez, a junior and member of the KSU Journey Honors College, is a student researcher who has immersed himself in what the lab has to offer. The computer science major has worked at the lab for two semesters, setting up software systems, running demonstrations and introducing the lab to other students who may want to use its devices for their academic projects.

Congratulations to Yan Huang and Joy Li for securing a new NSF Grant. Yan will be the PI and Joy a Co-PI for a $400k NSF collaborative grant with GSU. KSU is the lead institution in the grant. The project is entitled: "IUSE: EDU: Innovative and Inclusive Undergraduate XR Engineering Education to Cultivate Future Metaverse Workforce." 

Congratulations as the Principal Investigator, Dr. Abhishek Parakh successfully secured a collaborative $400K NSF grant titled Collaborative Research: SaTC: EDU: QUINTET: Quantum Internet Education and Training Synthesizer. The project will develop a state-ofthe-art experiential learning-based adaptive platform for quantum internet education. The project is in collaboration with UNO and will last 2 years. Kennesaw State University is the lead institution.