Benjamin Lok, Ph.D.
Professor, Graduate Program Director
Faculty Lead for the University of Florida in the NSF I-Corps Southeast Hub
Computer and Information Science and Engineering Department
University of Florida
Malachowsky Hall 5400E
tl;dr – As of May 2026, I’m not recruiting new students (undergraduate, MS, and Ph.D.).
Research
If you are interested in learning about the following, please read the info below and email me.
- (Innovation and entrepreneurship) The lessons learned from taking virtual patients from research to realization.
- (Virtual Reality) I am part of Human-Centered Computing@UF, Previous presentations, NSF Early CAREER Proposal.
Teaching:
I am not teaching courses at this time.
Previous courses
- User Experience Design (Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022)
- VR for the Social Good (Fall 2020, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018 (sabbatical), Fall 2017 (sabbatical))
- Human-Computer Interaction (Spring 2017, Spring 2021), Virtual Reality (Spring 2016), Computer Graphics (Spring 2008)
Service:
* Graduate Program Director -Please read information for current graduate students, graduate admissions information and admissions FAQ pages before emailing me. With over 2,000 applicants and 1000 enrolled students , we work hard to keep our online information accurate and up to date. I receive dozens of emails daily, so if your question is already answered in the FAQs, I will not be able to respond. For unique questions not covered in the FAQ, I’ll do my best to reply.
Bio: Ben is a Professor and CISE Graduate Program Director in UF’s CISE department and CTO of Rovex, Inc. He co-founded Shadow Health (acquired by Elsevier) and leads the Virtual Experiences Research Group (VERG), where we build virtual humans and mixed-reality systems to train real-world communication skills—especially in healthcare. He’s UF’s Faculty Lead for the NSF I-Corps Southeast Regional Hub and was inducted into the inaugural IEEE VGTC VR Academy. VERG publishes and wins awards at ACM SAP, IEEE VR, ACM IVA, and ACM I3D. We focus on projects that ship, not just papers. If you want to turn ideas into tools used by clinicians, learners, and robots, come talk to us.