Awarded NSF Award #2553446 as sole PI: ERI: Accessible XR System for Human Motion Monitoring, Reasoning, and Rendering with 3D Vision-Language Models.
Richie Dix defended his College Honors thesis, Integrating and Fine-tuning Single-Image-to-3D Model for 4D XR Human Visualization (advisor and committee chair). Four undergraduate researchers join the group for summer 2026.
Co-PI on NSF Award #2612358, ACAI-Train: Scalable Instructor Training for Infusing AI and Advanced CI Concepts into Early Core Computing Courses (PI: David P. Bunde).
U.S. Patent 12,592,097, Real-Time, Fine-Resolution Human Intra-Gait Pattern Recognition Based on Deep Learning Models, granted.
A Human–Machine System for Remote Rehabilitation: Cross-Platform Immersive Interaction Enabled by VR, AR, and Digital Twin Technologies accepted to IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems.
Deep Learning-Based Spatio-Temporal Framework for Opioid Overdose Monitoring in Rural Alabama published in Artificial Intelligence in Health.
Serving as a reviewer for Medical Image Analysis, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems, Scientific Reports, and Health Informatics Journal.
2025
Joined Knox College as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science.
U.S. Patent 12,370,404, Simulating a Split-Belt with a Single-Belt Treadmill, granted.
Received my Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The University of Alabama.
Real-Time, Free-Viewpoint Holographic Patient Rendering for Telerehabilitation via a Single Camera published in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.
Our edited book Metaverse Platform Implementation: AI, Security, and Applications (F. Hu, S. Cao, X.-S. Hei, Eds.) published by CRC Press, with three of our chapters: Neural Rendering Technology in VR and AR, Virtual Reality Medical Technology in the Metaverse, and High-Bandwidth Communication Technologies for the Metaverse.
Serving as a reviewer for the IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) 2025.
2024
StructuGraphRAG: Structured Document-Informed Knowledge Graphs for Retrieval-Augmented Generation published in the Proceedings of the AAAI Symposium Series.
Reconstructing Human Gaze Behavior from EEG Using Inverse Reinforcement Learning published in Smart Health.
2023
Single-Belt Versus Split-Belt: Intelligent Treadmill Control via Microphase Gait Capture for Poststroke Rehabilitation published in IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems.
2022
Let Every Voice Be Heard: Developing a Cost-Effective Community Sampling Frame in Rural Alabama to Combat COVID-19 presented at IEEE/ACM CHASE 2022.
Multi-Scale Reconstruction of Undersampled Spectral-Spatial OCT Data for Coronary Imaging Using Deep Learning published in IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering.
2021
Inpainting for Saturation Artifacts in Optical Coherence Tomography Using Dictionary-Based Sparse Representation published in the IEEE Photonics Journal.
2020
Super-Resolution Technology to Simultaneously Improve Optical & Digital Resolution of Optical Coherence Tomography via Deep Learning presented at IEEE EMBC 2020.
Rapid Escherichia coli Trapping and Retrieval from Bodily Fluids via a Three-Dimensional Bead-Stacked Nanodevice published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.