{"id":254,"date":"2020-10-23T15:18:49","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T15:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/faculty-template-featured\/?page_id=254"},"modified":"2026-03-23T13:14:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T17:14:28","slug":"benjamin-loks-homepage","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/benjamin-lok\/","title":{"rendered":"Benjamin Lok&#8217;s Homepage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/benjamin-lok\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/731\/2023\/02\/12321249_10108305756010191_4375685187861855814_n-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/benjamin-lok\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/731\/2023\/02\/12321249_10108305756010191_4375685187861855814_n-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/benjamin-lok\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/731\/2023\/02\/12321249_10108305756010191_4375685187861855814_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/benjamin-lok\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/731\/2023\/02\/12321249_10108305756010191_4375685187861855814_n.jpg 714w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Benjamin Lok, Ph.D.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Professor, Graduate Program Director<br>Faculty Lead for the University of Florida in the NSF I-Corps Southeast Hub<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Computer and Information Science and Engineering Department<br>University of Florida<br>Malachowsky Hall 5400E<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"mailto:lok@ufl.edu\">lok@ufl.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1boidZUND9n7LoODCZypFxJxeyWxG1j_0JaZ2g1Qo8Jw\/edit?tab=t.0\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1boidZUND9n7LoODCZypFxJxeyWxG1j_0JaZ2g1Qo8Jw\/edit?tab=t.0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CV<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/lokben\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/lokben\/\">LinkedIn<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><em><strong>tl;dr \u2013 As of May 2026, I&#8217;m not recruiting new students (undergraduate, MS, and Ph.D.)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are interested in learning about the following, please read the info below and email me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>(Innovation and entrepreneurship) The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.beautiful.ai\/-NFtOrGRfzoT2ubsAcUM\/40\">lessons learned from taking virtual patients from research to realization<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>(Virtual Reality) I am part of <a href=\"https:\/\/hccatuf.wordpress.com\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/hccatuf.wordpress.com\/\">Human-Centered Computing@UF<\/a>, Previous <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/drive\/folders\/0Bz0SLEuj8KK4VjhMMmZwM3FfclE\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/drive\/folders\/0Bz0SLEuj8KK4VjhMMmZwM3FfclE\">presentation<\/a>s, <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1Dl6zSRFja7Xl2DWAkU3Aew6WJGZnLb5Z\/view?usp=sharing\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1Dl6zSRFja7Xl2DWAkU3Aew6WJGZnLb5Z\/view?usp=sharing\">NSF Early CAREER Proposal<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Teaching:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><em>I am not teaching courses at this time.<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Previous courses<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>User Experience Design (<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/11kxLUeFzyeRgfyP96enAPyPMJouGqCLptvkYN-zfBu8\/edit?usp=sharing\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/11kxLUeFzyeRgfyP96enAPyPMJouGqCLptvkYN-zfBu8\/edit?usp=sharing\">Spring 2024<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/137CfxhRKaB7dc1z_2oxK4tKMQCrQO0IJRV9Xfq6wXN8\/edit?usp=sharing\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/137CfxhRKaB7dc1z_2oxK4tKMQCrQO0IJRV9Xfq6wXN8\/edit?usp=sharing\">Fall 2023<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1UfcvqavpA9PaLBckslJaVAxdvYE3I1B64ZAMgKFR82E\/edit?usp=sharing\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1UfcvqavpA9PaLBckslJaVAxdvYE3I1B64ZAMgKFR82E\/edit?usp=sharing\">Spring 2023<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1lmkQauF_smuXfiAFlZCG5us-_KXp_xLz_ATGmpPAMno\/edit?usp=share_link\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1lmkQauF_smuXfiAFlZCG5us-_KXp_xLz_ATGmpPAMno\/edit?usp=share_link\">Fall 2022<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>VR for the Social Good (<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/vrforthesocialgood-fall2020\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/vrforthesocialgood-fall2020\">Fall 2020<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/vrforthesocialgood-spring2019\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/vrforthesocialgood-spring2019\">Spring 2019<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/vr-for-the-social-good-f18\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/vr-for-the-social-good-f18\">Fall 2018<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/s\/0Bz0SLEuj8KK4NU5WXzNnU3M5dHM\/edit?authuser=0\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/s\/0Bz0SLEuj8KK4NU5WXzNnU3M5dHM\/edit?authuser=0\">Spring 2018 <\/a>(sabbatical), <a href=\"http:\/\/vrforthesocialgood.wordpress.com\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"http:\/\/vrforthesocialgood.wordpress.com\/\">Fall 2017<\/a> (sabbatical))<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Human-Computer Interaction (<a href=\"http:\/\/ufhcispring2017.wordpress.com\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"http:\/\/ufhcispring2017.wordpress.com\/\">Spring 2017<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/ufhcispring2021\/home\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/ufhcispring2021\/home\">Spring 2021<\/a>), Virtual Reality (<a href=\"http:\/\/ufvr2016.wordpress.com\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"http:\/\/ufvr2016.wordpress.com\/\">Spring 2016<\/a>), Computer Graphics (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cise.ufl.edu\/~lok\/teaching\/csgss08\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"http:\/\/www.cise.ufl.edu\/~lok\/teaching\/csgss08\">Spring 2008<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Service:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>* Graduate Program Director -Please read&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cise.ufl.edu\/academics\/graduate\/\">information for current graduate students<\/a>, &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cise.ufl.edu\/admissions\/graduate\/\">graduate admissions information<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cise.ufl.edu\/resources-help\/resources-for-students\/cise-graduate-program-faq\/\">admissions FAQ pages<\/a>&nbsp;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\u2019ll do my best to reply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"schedule of events\" style=\"border: solid 1px #777\" src=\"https:\/\/calendar.google.com\/calendar\/embed?height=600&amp;wkst=1&amp;ctz=America%2FNew_York&amp;showPrint=0&amp;mode=WEEK&amp;src=bG9rYmVuMjlAZ21haWwuY29t&amp;src=MzFiZmJiNWMyYTAyODJmZDU4YmMzZGZmNGE4YjI3YTUwZTk4YmNhODIzZTQ2OWM1MDY4NGZiNTNmNGVlMjk3OUBncm91cC5jYWxlbmRhci5nb29nbGUuY29t&amp;src=ben%40gorovex.com&amp;src=aGh2ZTVjbzA5ZGlmdG5vZzMzdmtjajQ4dWtAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ&amp;src=OTR0YTBzbGc4Y2V2OW9mMnR0dW9haWtpcXNAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ&amp;src=cTQ5NzVkOHA4aXYzdGNidW81dWZoZjB0ZDhlZHFxaXRAaW1wb3J0LmNhbGVuZGFyLmdvb2dsZS5jb20&amp;src=YmVuQGdvcm92ZXguY29t&amp;src=ZGF2aWRAZ29yb3ZleC5jb20&amp;src=bG9rQHVmbC5lZHU&amp;color=%234285F4&amp;color=%23F4511E&amp;color=%2333B679&amp;color=%237986CB&amp;color=%23F6BF26&amp;color=%23616161&amp;color=%23F6BF26&amp;color=%23EF6C00\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Bio:&nbsp;<\/strong>Ben is a Professor and CISE Graduate Program Director in UF\u2019s 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\u2014especially in healthcare. He\u2019s UF\u2019s 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.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benjamin Lok, Ph.D. Professor, Graduate Program DirectorFaculty Lead for the University of Florida in the NSF I-Corps Southeast Hub Computer and Information Science and Engineering DepartmentUniversity of FloridaMalachowsky Hall 5400E lok@ufl.edu CV, LinkedIn tl;dr \u2013 As of May 2026, I&#8217;m not recruiting new students (undergraduate, MS, and Ph.D.). 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