PhD student at Virginia Tech, Center for Human-Computer Interaction, Department of Computer Science.Research Assistant in 3D Interaction Group, Advised by Dr. Doug A. Bowman.Department of Computer Science, Center for Human Computer Interaction, Virginia Tech. (9/2013 - Present)• Design and implement the simulation of AR systems using VR inside a CAVE.• Study the effects of interaction fidelity in a test bed for locomotion techniques• Design a bare-hand selection and manipulation technique in a large tracked area• Design a virtual musical instrument using 3D interaction• Using Leap device to design travel techniques with bare-hand interaction• Free-hand gesture user interface for 3D point cloud annotation using 3D-Mouse and Leap• Design and evaluation of a visual acclimation aid for the Virtusphere locomotion device to assist interaction.• Comparison of locomotion interfaces: a study on naturalism vs effectiveness.

• High performance computing and parallel processing with application to bioinformatics• Parallel implementation if Dindel realignment tool

Research Intern at Magic Leap

Research Intern in Mixed Reality (MxR) Lab, Under Supervision of Dr. Evan Suma, Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California (7/2014 - 10/2014)• Develop an ecologically valid environment for redirected walking in VR• Design a redirected walking algorithm to enable user walk on a 100 yards path

Remote Research Scholar in Persepolis group, Under Supervision of Dr. Amir H. Assadi, Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin, Madison (9/2010 – 6/2012)• Analyzing and clustering of gene expression data using GPU• Super structure artificial neural networks on GPU

• Design and develop software for testing smart card’s OS and applets.• Team leader for developing and running test scenarios and test scripts for smart card OS and applet.

• Parallel implementation of artificial neural network on GPU• Implemented protein secondary structure prediction on GPU to improve run-time• Multi class pattern classification