If you are interested in learning about Entrepreneurship:

• The lessons learned from taking virtual patients from research to realization, please email me.
• Discussing entrepreneurial topics, please fill out a LEAN BUSINESS CANVAS (15 minutes) then email me.

If you are interested in learning about Virtual Reality research: 

• Visit my research group, the Virtual Experiences Research Group where we research how to improve how humans communicate with each other by creating virtual experiences that improve people’s communication skills, training, and health. Check out our OKRs (inspired by Measure What Matters by John Doerr)
• Information for prospective research students. I encourage undergraduates (including those in their first two years) and graduate students (regardless of prior experience) who want to get into research in virtual reality or human-computer interaction to learn more about our research. Check out how to join us! I am accepting new Ph.D., masters, and undergraduate students into my research group. Do not email me your CV. Emailing me your CV tells me you didn’t read this information. 
• If you are interested in increasing your computer science experience and development skills in the areas of HCI and VR, please read the following: Information for senior projects/independent study.
• If you are looking for a paid position, I only have funding for new Ph.D. students. To obtain funding positions, please apply to the department, that’s all you need to do. Please do not email me about positions. Read the info on funding here from our graduate program director.
• the ​VR For the Social Good Initiative.
• I am a part of the Human-Centered Computing@UF. 
• Previous presentations, NSF Early CAREER Proposal.

If you are interested in courses I’ve taught:

• Fall 2023 – CEN5728 UX Design (grad) Syllabus – currently the class is full. No more seats will be added. Please check back at the end of the first week right before the drop/add deadline to see if any seats open up. Do not email me asking to open up more seats.
• Previous courses
  • User Experience Design (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)

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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