EVL Team Gets 2nd Place in EPIC Hackathon at UIC
Andrew Wentzel, G. Elisabeta Marai, Hossein Fathollahian, Md Nafiul Alam Nipu, Sanjana Srabanti October 9, 2024 A team of collaborating researchers from EVL and others from the Equitable Health Data Science Institute (EHDS) members placed 2nd out of 17 teams in… Read more |
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Interested in pursuing a PhD in Computer Science in the United States?
November 2, 2022 UIC Department of Computer Science Doctoral Admissions Webinar November 2nd 2022 @7 am-8:30am Chicago time (CDT) Webinar… Read more |
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New Computer Design Research and Learning Center Breaks Ground
September 16, 2021 Construction activities for the new $117.8 million, 135,000-square-foot Computer Design Research and Learning Center to be located at 900 W. Taylor… Read more |
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Maximizing cancer survival, minimizing treatment side effects with AI
G. Elisabeta Marai June 1, 2021 EVL faculty and computer science (CS) associate professor Liz Marai in collaboration with co-investigator, CS assistant professor Xinhua Zhang are… Read more |
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Andrew Johnson Named Interim Director, EVL
Andrew Johnson October 1, 2020 - Ongoing October 1 - - EVL Director of Research Andrew Johnson has been named Interim Director of EVL following Maxine Brown’s retirement from UIC… Read more |
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EVL Research Assistant Ryan Nishimoto Featured as Computer Science Grad
Ryan Nishimoto January 6, 2020 After graduating with his bachelor’s degree in astrophysics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Ryan Nishimoto began his… Read more |
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Daria Tsoupikova Recognized Among Leonardo's Outstanding Peer Reviewers
Daria Tsoupikova August 1, 2019 Since 2017, Leonardo commenced a quarterly recognition of exceptional peer reviewers noted for their in-depth and deeply constructive feedback on… Read more |
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UIC Electronic Visualization Laboratory Graduates and Staff Participate in Symposium “Herstory: Digital Innovations”
Carolina Cruz-Neira, Copper Giloth, Dana M. Plepys, Margaret Dolinsky, Mary Rasmussen, Maxine Brown, Barbara Sykes October 18, 2018 OCTOBER 18, 2018 - “Herstory: Digital Innovations Symposium and Book Signing,” celebrates the book “New Media Futures (NMF): The… Read more |
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UIC/EVL Featured in new book: New Media Futures: The Rise of Women in the Digital Arts
Carolina Cruz-Neira, Copper Giloth, Dana M. Plepys, Lucy Petrovich, Margaret Dolinsky, Mary Rasmussen, Maxine Brown, Sally Rosenthal, Barbara Sykes May 24, 2018 MAY 24, 2018 - The 1980s and beyond were a pivotal time for the digital arts media in the Midwest, and many of the women who went to school or worked… Read more |
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Inside a Real Life Holodeck
Andrew Johnson June 13, 2017 JUNE 13, 2017 - Ryan Wolff and David Wolff, producers of the documentary web series “The Good Stuff,” recently completed a program on… Read more |
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Newcity magazine rates UIC/EVL as “Best place to get your geek on”
November 6, 2016 Newcity magazine is Chicago’s only locally owned and operated cultural weekly, and has been covering Chicago’s local scene for more than… Read more |
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Andrea Rottigni Thesis Presentation: “Serious Games for Virtual Rehabilitation in a Large Scale Virtual Reality Environment”
Andrea Rottigni, Marco Cavallo, Andrea Rottigni May 6, 2016 Wednesday, May 6, 2016, 11:00 AM Room 1000, Science & Engineering Office Building, UIC UIC Computer Science and EVL exchange student from the… Read more |
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EVL Alumna Opens Emerging Analytics Center at University of Arkansas
October 16, 2015 - October 17, 2015 EVL PhD alumna and director of the University of Arkansas Little Rock’s Emerging Analytics Center, Carolina Cruz-Neira hosts the inaugural open… Read more |
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Medical Simulation and Interactive Education at the Jump Center
October 14, 2015 Scott Barrows, Director of Simulation Programming at the Jump Trading Simulation & Education Center in Peoria, Illinois presents his team’s… Read more |
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EVL Announces New Faculty Member: G. Elisabeta Marai
February 3, 2015 G. Elisabeta (Liz) Marai, PhD, has joined the faculty of the Computer Science Department and the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at the… Read more |
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The art of numbers: Who knew Big Data could look so cool?
September 18, 2013 PCWorld’s sister publication TechHive (1.2 million monthly unique visitors) published the story “The art of numbers: Who knew Big Data… Read more |
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WTTW airs story on EVL and CAVE2™ System - Tuesday, April 23
April 23, 2013 On Tuesday, April 23, 2013, the WTTW television news show “Chicago Tonight” aired an ~8 minute “Scientific Chicago” segment… Read more |
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UIC / EVL mentioned in New York Times: A Big Data Freeway for Scientists
Electronic Visualization Laboratory, University of Illinois at Chicago, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), University of California, San Diego March 20, 2013 The article “A ‘Big Data’ Freeway for Scientists” by John Markoff appeared the March 20, 2013 issue of the New York Times… Read more |
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Step into a Virtual World (UIC News)
March 5, 2013 Matt O’Connor “We love science fiction, and we just want to live in the science fiction world,” said computer scientist Jason… Read more |
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Mechdyne Corporation Licenses CAVE2™ Hybrid Reality Environment from the University of Illinois at Chicago
Mechdyne Corporation March 5, 2013 EDITOR’S NOTE: The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) licensed the CAVE2™ Hybrid Reality Environment to Mechdyne Corporation… Read more |
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Associated Press releases print and video stories about UIC / EVL CAVE2™ System
February 20, 2013 Today the Associated Press issued the following article, photographs and video about the UIC Electronic Visualization Laboratory’s CAVE2™… Read more |
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NextMed MMVR20 Conference
Daria Tsoupikova, School of Art & Design University of Illinois at Chicago February 20, 2013 - February 23, 2013 EVL associate professor, Daria Tsoupikova presents her collaborative research at the 2013 NextMed NMVR20 Conference in San Diego, CA… Read more |
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SPIE 2013, The Engineering Reality of Virtual Reality
Alessandro Febretti February 4, 2013 - February 5, 2013 EVL PhD candidate Alessandro Febretti discusses the CAVE2™ instrumentation research and developed at the annual IS&T / SPIE Electronic… Read more |
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University of Illinois at Chicago: Virtual Reality’s CAVE™ Pioneer
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh February 4, 2013 The CAVE2™ Hybrid Reality Environment, developed by the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL), is… Read more |
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State-of-the-Art Virtual Reality System Is Key to Medical Discovery
Thomas Marrinan, Bioengineering Laboratory for Product and Process Design (LPPD), UIC College of Medicine December 12, 2012 UIC’s new CAVE2™ Hybrid Reality Environment is only two months old, and is already helping UIC neurosurgeons and bioengineering… Read more |
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Treating asthma? There’s an app for that
Jason Leigh, Robert Kenyon, Steve Jones, Stellan Ohlsson (UIC), Giselle Mosnaim (Rush University Medical Center) November 15, 2012 EDITOR’S NOTE: In Fall 2011, the UIC Electronic Visualization Laboratory received a pilot grant for “Human Augmentics for Sustained… Read more |
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VisWeek 2012
Thomas Marrinan, Ian Gould, Chih-Yang Hsu, Andreas Linninger October 14, 2012 - October 19, 2012 EVL PhD candidate Thomas Marrinan presents Whole-Brain Vascular Reconstruction, Simulation, and Visualization at VisWeek 2012 in Seattle, Washington… Read more |
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Hirofumi Ida, Virtual-reality in health and sports science
May 30, 2012 Dr. Hirofumi Ida, Research Associate, Department of Physical Therapy, University of Illinois at Chicago and Research Fellow, Department of Human… Read more |
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Professors Jason Leigh and Robert Kenyon teach the first Human Augmentics class
Jason Leigh, Robert V. Kenyon May 22, 2012 Spring 2012 semester, professors Jason Leigh and Robert Kenyon teach the first Human Augmentics class. Human Augmentics is a term coined by Leigh and… Read more |
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EVL Student Receives 1st Place in 2012 UIC Image of Research Competition
Thomas Marrinan (Computer Science), Ian Gould (Bioengineering) April 19, 2012 - May 31, 2012 Tom Marrinan, a student of UIC’s Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL), in collaboration with student Ian Gould of the UIC Bioengineering… Read more |
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Innovative virtual reality technology revolutionizes stroke therapy
Daria Tsoupikova, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC) April 4, 2012 Several weeks ago information about an excellent article profiling EVL’s Daria Tsoupikova, associate professor in the UIC School of Art and… Read more |
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Innovative virtual reality technology revolutionizes stroke therapy
Daria Tsoupikova March 1, 2012 EDITOR’S NOTE: Two Northwestern University Medill School journalism students spent a week at the UIC Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL)… Read more |
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Future Me - Human Augmentics for Sustained Wellbeing Sustained Wellbeing
Andrew Johnson December 1, 2011 EVL associate professor Andrew Johnson participated in the plenary session at the Southeast Asia International Joint Research Training Program in… Read more |
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Body in space inside the Mind - Multiple representations of the body and space in the brain
Mark B. Shapiro Research Scientist Sensory Motor Performance Program Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago February 23, 2011 When we move our body or make a reaching arm movement, it is essential to know where our body is in space with respect to the target or, conversely… Read more |
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IE 494: Haptics & Augmented Reality
Cristian J. Luciano January 11, 2011 - May 7, 2011 Are you interested in learning a cool 3D-touch technology? EVL collaborator, Research Assistant Professor Cristian Luciano (MIE) introduces… Read more |
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C. J. Luciano Dissertation Nominated for the Graduate College Outstanding Thesis Award 2010
Cristian J. Luciano October 18, 2010 - December 3, 2010 Cristian Javier Luciano’s doctoral dissertation “Open Surgery Training Simulator Using Haptics and Augmented Reality Technologies”… Read more |
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Medicine’s Next Frontier
EVL faculty, staff, and students June 26, 2010 The article Medicine’s Next Frontier by Sandra Guy appeared in the June 26, 2010 issue of the Chicago Sun-Times. It reports on a major new… Read more |
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PhD Dissertation: Open Surgery Training Simulator
Cristian J. Luciano, Chairperson: Professor Pat Banerjee June 24, 2010 Open Surgery Training Simulator Using Haptics and Augmented Reality Technologies This thesis focuses on the R&D of a novel Haptics-based… Read more |
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CBS news profiles UIC’s BVis (and EVL technologies)
Luc Renambot, EVL faculty, staff, and students April 21, 2010 CBS Chicago evening news recently profiled UIC’s Biomedical Visualization (BVis) program, part of the College of Applied Health Sciences and a… Read more |
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Glasses-free 3D
Andrew Johnson, EVL faculty, staff, and students March 9, 2010 by Thomas Forrest, Medill Reports - Chicago, Northwestern University MARCH 9, 2010 - You’re in the far depths of space and turn your head to… Read more |
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Virtual Reality Environment Assisting Recovery from Stroke
Daria Tsoupikova, Nikolay Stoykov, Bioengineering, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC), Randy Vick, Art Therapy, School of Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) December 19, 2009 A networked demonstration of the collaborative project Virtual Reality Environment Assisting Recovery from Stroke premiered at the SIGGRAPH ASIA 2009… Read more |
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Teaching Doctors Using Stereoscopic Imaging at AAO 2009
Luc Renambot, EVL, Rick Fiscella, UIC Department of Pharmacy Practice (PHARM) October 24, 2009 - October 27, 2009 October 30, 2009 - Teaching doctors about eye diseases using stereoscopic computer-graphics imaging was well received at this week’s American… Read more |
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Advancing Robotic Surgery Using High-Performance Visualization and Networking Technologies
Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot, Maxine Brown, Patrick Hallihan October 9, 2009 - October 10, 2009 The Clinical Robotic Surgery Association (CRSA) will hold its first meeting October 9-10, 2009, just prior to the 95th annual meeting of the American… Read more |
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A Unique UIC Program Unites Art and Science
Luc Renambot August 13, 2009 - October 17, 2009 “Redefining the Medical Artist” - an exhibition curated by Meena Malhotra, a Master’s student in the UIC Biomedical Visualization… Read more |
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Scientific and BioMedical Visualization panels for the Computer Animation Festival at the SIGGRAPH 2009
Cole Krumbholz, Daria Tsoupikova, Helen-Nicole Kostis, NASA / GSFC-Scientific Visualization Studio, MITRE Corp., NCSA University of IL, Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum, California Institute of Technology, Harvard Medical School & Digizyme, Inc., Institute for Creative Technologies & School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern CA, University of MD Baltimore County & Scientific Visualization Studio, NASA / GSFC, Universities Space Research Assoc., SARL IMA Solutions, University of CA, San Francisco School of Medicine August 5, 2009 - August 6, 2009 EVL alumnae Helen-Nicole Kostis and Cole Krumbholz join Daria Tsoupikova, EVL Associate Professor to curate two new panels on Scientific and… Read more |
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From pictures to pixels: interactive visualization explained
EVL faculty, staff, and students May 20, 2009 To read the full article and see a related video visit the Medill Reports Chicago. by Kathryn Murphy May 20, 2009 Since helping to digitize the… Read more |
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IEEE CIDM 2009 Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining
Yiwen Sun March 30, 2009 - April 2, 2009 EVL PhD candidate Yiwen Sun presented her research in eye-tracking for medical diagnosis of attention deficit disorders at the IEEE Symposium Series… Read more |
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5th Brown Bag Interdisciplinary Lunch: Visualization
Daniel Sauter, Jason Leigh, Annette Valenta March 10, 2008 EVL faculty Jason Leigh, Associate Professor of Computer Science and co-Director of EVL, and Daniel Sauter, Assistant Professor School of Art &… Read more |
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Virtual Humans for Interpersonal Interaction Education
Andrew B. Raij, Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering Department, University of Florida October 18, 2007 Thursday, October 18, 2007 11:00a.m. - 12:00p.m. Andrew B. Raij will discuss the development and recent advances of the Virtual OSCE (VOSCE). The… Read more |
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Presentations on Advanced Visualization and Collaboration at universities in Rio De Janeiro
Jason Leigh, Paul Morin, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Minnesota and National Center for Earth Surface Dynamics August 14, 2006 - September 18, 2006 Dr. Frederico Pereira Laier of the Universidade Federal do Rio De Janeiro (UFRJ) invited Jason Leigh and Paul Morin to give presentations on… Read more |
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Science Grid This Week Features EVL Alumni Research
Joe Insley, Michael E. Papka, The University of Chicago / Argonne National Laboratory March 29, 2006 EVL alumni and Argonne National Laboratory staff members, Mike Papka’s and Joe Insley’s research efforts and collaborative work in the… Read more |
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ImmersiveTouch System Research Presented at Medicine Meets Virtual Reality Conference
Cristian J. Luciano, G. Michael Lemole, Jr., Fady Charbel January 24, 2006 - January 27, 2006 Cristian Luciano presents the latest research in advanced medical visualization technologies and applications using the ImmersiveTouch™ System… Read more |
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The Media Lab - Past & Future
Helen-Nicole Kostis October 28, 2004 The MIT Media Laboratory was founded by MIT Professor Nicholas Negroponte and the late Jerome Wiesner, who foresaw the coming convergence of… Read more |
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PARIS Displayed at RSNA 2003
Chris Scharver, Daniel J. Sandin, Greg Dawe, Mary Rasmussen, Nicholas Schwarz, Vaidya Chandrasekhar, Zhuming Ai, Ray Evenhouse, Mark Morita, Steve Fores November 29, 2003 - December 4, 2003 The PARIS was demonstrated at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) 2003 Meeting at the McCormick Place Convention Center. Read more |
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MFA AD508 Seminar Series
Drew Browning, Electronic Visualization Students October 1, 2003 - November 20, 2003 The Electronic Visualization Lab’s Fall 2003 MFA AD508 Seminar Series meets every Wednesday from 2:00 - 4:00pm. The series begins with… Read more |
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Programming the Personal Augmented Reality Immersive System PARIS™
Chris Scharver September 11, 2003 The Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) in cooperation with UIC’s Virtual Reality in… Read more |
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PARIS at Rehabilitation Engineering & Assistive Technology Society of North America (RESNA)
Chris Scharver, Greg Dawe, Robert V. Kenyon, Jim Patton, Robert Sanchez, Eric Cruz, Mohsen Makhsous June 19, 2003 - June 23, 2003 EVL’s PARIS system demonstrated the possibilities for clinical rehabilitation of the human sensory-motor system at the 26th International RESNA… Read more |
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PARIS™ Debuts at SC’02 with Haptic Medical Demo
Charles Zhang, Chris Scharver, Greg Dawe, Jason Leigh November 16, 2002 - November 22, 2002 In a truly ‘hands on’ demonstration, a haptics-enhanced virtual reality device now on exhibit at SC’02 in Baltimore, shows how… Read more |
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Science, Culture and Education over Internet2
Brenda Lopez Silva, Greg Dawe, Javier Girado, Fred Dech, Jason Leigh, Paul Morin, Peter van Keken April 4, 2001 - April 6, 2001 The international meeting, Science, Culture, and Education over Internet2, April 4 - 6, 2001 will be held at the Universidad Técnica Federico… Read more |
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The International Grid (iGrid) 2000
EVL faculty, staff, and students July 18, 2000 - July 21, 2000 The International Grid (iGrid) 2000 exhibit, jointly sponsored and organized by the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at the University of… Read more |
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ImmersaGrams: Virtual Reality Snapshots
Andrew Johnson, Beth Cerny Patino, Brenda Lopez Silva, Ellen Sandor, Jason Leigh, John Landry, Ka-Leung Jark, Margaret Dolinsky, Natt Mintrasak, Todd Margolis, Margaret Watson May 8, 2000 - May 13, 2000 This exhibition presents the work of current and past graduate students of the Electronic Visualization Laboratory at the University of Illinois at… Read more |
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Biomedical Tele-Immersion with the College of Medicine
Mary Rasmussen, Walter Panko, Jonathan Silverstein December 1, 1999 The University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine will introduce biomedical tele-immersion into the curriculum of surgical residents… Read more |
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Technology Leadership Workshop
Dana M. Plepys, EVL faculty, staff, and students January 10, 1998 EVL will host U.S. Senator Dick Durbin and members of the Illinois Congressional Delegation at UIC on Saturday, January 10, 1998. CAVE and… Read more |
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ThinkQuest ’97
Alan Cruz, Andrew Johnson, Craig Barnes, Hisham Bizri, Jason Leigh, Jim Costigan, Josephine Anstey, Margaret Dolinsky, Tom Coffin, Dave Pape, Dana Plepys, Maggie Rawlings, Maria Roussou, Tomoko Imai, Alan Verlo, Greg Dawe, Dr. T. Mason, Mary Rasmussen, Alan Millman, R. Evenhouse, L. Warren, N. Lowenthal, J. McElroy, R. Seelaus, J. Challender November 11, 1997 - November 14, 1997 ThinkQuest is an annual contest that challenges Students 12 - 19 to use the Internet as a collaborative, interactive teaching and learning tool. EVL… Read more |
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VROOM - The Virtual Reality Room :: Exhibition at Siggraph
Andrew Johnson, Dana M. Plepys, Daniel J. Sandin, Gary Lindahl, Jason Leigh, Maxine Brown, Thomas A. DeFanti, Trina Roy, Drew Browning, Robert Kenyon, Dave Adamczyk, Morteza Ghazi, Mihailo Alic, Jim Barr, K. O’Keefe, Dave Pape, C. Cederwall, C. Cruz-Nera, Matthew Szymanski, Sumit Das, Thomas Brown, Maria Roussou, Tom Nawara, Marek Czernuszenko July 24, 1994 - July 29, 1994 Those who attended the exhibition of VROOM at the proceedings of Siggraph ’94, experienced the possibilities of scientific visualization in… Read more |