VR Dissertation Award Previous Recipients

2024

Best Dissertation: André Zenner

Affiliation: Saarland University and DFKI   (Germany)

Dissertation: “Advancing Proxy-Based Haptic Feedback in Virtual Reality“

Honorable Mention: Fangcheng Zhong

Affiliation: Cambridge University (UK)

Dissertation: Path from Photorealism to Perceptual Realism“

2023

Best Dissertation: Praneeth Kumar Chakravarthula
Affiliation: University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, USA
Dissertation: “Towards Everyday-use Augmented Reality Eyeglasses”

Honorable Mention: Hugo Brument
Affiliation: University of Rennes, France
Dissertation: “Towards User-Adapted Navigation Techniques in Virtual Environments: Study of Factors Influencing Users Behavior in Virtual Reality”

Honorable Mention: Jonathan Sutton
Affiliation: University of Otago, New Zealand
Dissertation: “Computational Glasses: Repurposing Augmented Reality Glasses for Vision Assistance”

2022 

Best Dissertation: Nami Ogawa
Affiliation: University of Tokyo, Japan
Dissertation: “Effect of Self-Avatar Anthropomorphism on Perception and Behavior in Virtual Environments”

Honorable Mention: Katharina Krösl
Affiliation: Technische Universität Wien, Austria
Dissertation: “Simulating Vision Impairments in Virtual and Augmented Reality”

2021 

Best Dissertation: Mayra Donaji Barrera Machuca
Affiliation: Simon Fraser University, Canada
Dissertation: “Towards More Accurate Immersive 3D Sketching”

Honorable Mention: Javad Fotouhi
Affiliation: Johns Hopkins University, USA
Dissertation: “Augmented reality and artificial intelligence in image-guided and robot-assisted interventions”

2020 

Best Dissertation: Misha Sra
Affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Honorable Mention: Folker Wientapper

2019 

Best Dissertation: Qi Sun
Affiliation: Stony Brook University, USA

Honorable Mention: James Baumeister

2018 

Best Dissertation: Sebastian Friston
Affiliation: University College London, UK

Honorable Mention: Richard Skarbez

2017 

Best Dissertation: Andrew Maimone
Affiliation: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

Best Dissertation: Alexander Kulik
Affiliation: Bauhaus University Weimar

Honorable Mention: Yuta Itoh

2016 

Best Dissertation: Ravish Mehra
Affiliation: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

Honorable Mention: Bireswar Laha
Honorable Mention: Merwan Achibet