Rawan Alghofaili

Office: ECSS 4.704 · University of Texas at Dallas · rawan(at)utdallas(dot)edu
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I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science at UT Dallas, where I lead the Human-centered eXtended Reality (HeXD) Lab.

I graduated in August 2022 with a PhD from the Department of Computer Science at George Mason University where I received the Distinguished Academic Achievement Award. During my PhD, I worked under the mentorship of Professor Lap-Fai (Craig) Yu, exploring the design of context-aware AR/VR/MR system interactions.

In the Summer of 2020, I interned at Adobe’s Creative Intelligence Lab under the mentorship of Cuong Nguyen, Vojtěch Krs, Nathan Carr and Radomír Měch. I was also a research intern in the Summer and Fall of 2021 at Meta Reality Labs working under the mentorship of Ben Lafreniere.

Prior to venturing into the world of PhD life, I received an MEng. (Master's of Engineering) in Computer Science from Cornell University and an MS (Master's of Science) from the University of Massachusetts-Boston.

Research interests: Computational Design, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Mixed Reality, Graphics, Vision, Machine Learning and HCI.

Selected Publications

For a complete list of publications, please see all publications on the HeXD Lab website.

Academic Services

  • Program Committee:
    • ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA) (2023)
    • IEEE MetaCom (2023)
    • CHI Late-Breaking Work (LBW) (2023)
    • ETRA short papers (2023)
    • IEEE MetaCom (2023)
    • ACHI (2020)
  • Associate Chair:
    • CHI PLAY Work-In-Progress (WiP) (2022)
    • ETRA short papers (2021)
  • Reviewer:
    • CHI (2020-2023)
    • UIST (2023)
    • IEEE VR journal track (2020-2023)
    • IEEE VR conference track (2020, 2022)
    • VRST (2020-2021)
    • TOG (2023)
    • TVCG (2023)
    • CHI PLAY (2020)
    • CASA (2019)
    • CAVW journal (2019)
  • Student Volunteer: SIGGRAPH (2020)
  • Workshops: TraingingXR@IEEE VR: Workshop on 3D Content Creation for Simulated Training in eXtended Reality (2020)
  • Invited Talks:
    • MAGFest (2023)
    • T-Mobile Advanced and Emerging Technologies (2022)
    • NHK Science & Technology Research Laboratories (2019)