Presenter

Daria Tsoupikova is a Professor in the School of Design and the Electronic Visualization Laboratory at the University of Illinois Chicago. She is a second wave VR researcher and has been creating VR applications and networked tele-immersive multi-user real-time VR exhibitions for VR projection systems, such as Cave Automatic Virtual Environment (CAVE) and CAVE2 for over 20 years. These works investigate computational creativity to design real life applications that advance healthcare, education and social change. Tsoupikova’s work has been exhibited and published by Springer, Leonardo, SIGGRAPH, IEEE VR, IEEE VIS, ISEA and funded by the NSF, NEA, NIDRR and the Department of Education.