Affiliated Faculty

The Center for Interactive Media's (CIM) interdisciplinary approach encourages collaboration across media disciplines to pursue funding for its work and to build industry and community partnerships.

See below for a list of faculty members who are currently affiliated with CIM.

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Helena Shaskevich

School of Art and Design

Research interests: New media practices, AI in art, histories of experimental film, computer and video art

Shuchita Mishra

School of Art and Design

Research interests: Immersive storytelling, comics, technology (XR)

Jeremy Speed-Schwartz

School of Art and Design

Research interests: Digital animation, motion tracking, physical interface, immersive projection

Joy Li

Software Engineering and Game Development

Research interests: XR, HCI, serious games

Modupe Akintomide

Wellstar School of Nursing

Research interests: Dementia care, virtual reality, gamification

Melissa Osborne

Wellstar School of Nursing

Research interests: Immersive VR, home safety behavior

Lei Zhang

Software Engineering and Game Development

Research interests: Virtual reality

Mahyar Amirgholy

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Sergio Figueiredo

Department of English

Research interests: Metaverse education; rhetoric

Jeffrey Greene

Department of English

Research interests: Metaverse education

Soo Il Shin

Department of Information Systems

Research interests: AI & entertainment

Max North

Department of Information Systems

Research interests: VR therapy, anxiety, training, sense of presence 

Reza Vaezi

Department of Information Systems

Research interests: Brainwave – empathy

Harun Avci

Department of Economics, Finance and Quantitative Analysis

Research interests: Simulation optimization for decision-making

Amir Karami

School of Data Science and Analytics

Research interests: Computational linguistics – AI anthropomorphism

Rifatul Islam

Department of Computer Science

Research interests: XR - AI how to use AI in XR research experience; XR AI technology can be applied to different domains as needed 

Kyu-soo Chung

Department of Exercise Science and Sport Management

Research interests:

Laura Palmer

Department of Technical Communication & Interactive Design

Research interests: UX research

Ivan Jorrin Abellan

Bagwell College of Education

Tom Doleys

School of Government International Affairs

Shadi Beshai

Department of Psychological Science

Research interests: Adult depression and anxiety, VR

Pegah Zamani

Department of Architecture

Research interests:

Andrea Knowlton

Department of Dance

Research interests: Performance, embodiment, AI

Sungchul Jung

Department of Software Engineering and Game Development

Research interests: VR in education, affective computing

Kyusik Kim

Department of Geography and Anthropology

Research interests: Geographic information, spatial data analysis, and visualization of spatial (geographic) data

Brooke Zhao

Department of Software Engineering and Game Development

Research interests: VR/AR, HCI, and cognitive psychology - spatial understanding

Chenyu Wang

Department of Software Engineering and Game Development

Research interests: Digital Twin Modeling 

Honghui Xu

Department of Information Technology

Research interests: Cybersecurity

Christine Wusylko

School of Instructional Technology and Innovation

Research interests: AI literacy and STEM education

Russel James

School of Communication & Media

Research interests:

M. Rasel Mahmud

Department of Computer Science

Research interests: VR in healthcare, digital twin

Selena He

Department of Computer Science

Research interests: AI-Driven Healthcare app, AI-Enabled Computing Education

Ian Dunham

School of Communication & Media

Research interests: Critical data studies

Kyu-soo Chung

Department of Exercise Science and Sport Management

Research interests:

Kyungeun Lim

School of Art and Design

Research interests:

Kawther Hamash

Associate Professor of Nursing

Research interests: Oncology nursing, Nursing education, AI use in health care and education, Interactive education tools