Professor and Entrepreneur
Computer and Information Science and Engineering
University of Florida
CSE 544, lok@ufl.edu
Connecting Spring 2023 (check Google calendar below):
* For in person meetings, I'm on campus MWF from 9:30-1:50.
* For Zoom meetings, I'm available M/Tu/W/F 3:30-5. Please email me several available times.
Professor and Entrepreneur
Computer and Information Science and Engineering
University of Florida
CSE 544, lok@ufl.edu
Connecting Spring 2023 (check Google calendar below):
* For in person meetings, I'm on campus MWF from 9:30-1:50.
* For Zoom meetings, I'm available M/Tu/W/F 3:30-5. Please email me several available times.
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Bio: Benjamin Lok is a Professor in the Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering Department at the University of Florida and entrepreneur, having previously co-founded Shadow Health (now a part of Elsevier). Professor Lok’s research focuses on using virtual humans and mixed reality to train communication skills within the areas of virtual environments, human-computer interaction, and computer graphics. Professor Lok received a Ph. D. (2002, advisor: Dr. Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.) and M.S. (1999) from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a B.S. in Computer Science (1997) from the University of Tulsa. He did a post-doc fellowship (2003) under Dr. Larry F. Hodges.
Professor Lok was inducted into the inaugural IEEE VGTC VR Academy (2022), received the UF Innovator of the Year Award (2019), a UF Term Professorship (2017-2020), the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering Faculty Mentoring Award (2016), a NSF Career Award (2007-2012), and the UF ACM CISE Teacher of the Year Award in 2005-2006. He and his students in the Virtual Experiences Research Group have received Best Paper Awards at IVA 2019, IEEE VR 2008, and ACM I3D (Top 3, 2003). He was the chair of the Steering Committee of the IEEE Virtual Reality conference (2018-2021). He has been the general co-chair of IEEE VR 2014 and IEEE VR 2013, and program co-chaired the ACM VRST 2009, IEEE Virtual Reality 2010, and IEEE Virtual Reality 2011 conferences. Professor Lok is a journal associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.
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