Category: News - Jain Lab

March 24, 2026: Our article “Toward Multimodal Privacy in XR: Design and Evaluation of Composite Privatization Methods for Gaze and Body Tracking Data” was accepted for presentation at IEEE VR 2026. Azim will be presenting the work at the conference. Congratulations Azim!

May 4, 2026

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March 12, 2026: Our undergraduate student Theo Weise was awarded the University Scholars scholarship in support of his work on eye tracking. Congratulations Theo!

May 4, 2026

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January 28, 2026: Our survey article “Eye-Tracked Virtual Reality: A Comprehensive Survey on Methods and Privacy Challenges” was published in Proceedings of the IEEE

February 2, 2026

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January 15 2026: Our article “Toward Multimodal Privacy in XR: Design and Evaluation of Composite Privatization Methods for Gaze and Body Tracking Data” was conditionally accepted for presentation at IEEE VR 2026 and selected for publication in a special issue of the IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE TVCG). Congratulations Azim!

January 22, 2026

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January 10 2026: Dr. Jain presents “Human-Horse Partnership as a Model for Human-Robot Teaming”, a joint invited talk at Dynamics Days US 2026 and Horse Days: Human-Agent Teaming and Horse-Human Partnerships at the University of Arizona and the Al Marah Equine Center.

January 22, 2026

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December 31, 2025: Brendan David-John is a recipient of the IEEE VR 2025 Best Dissertation Award

January 22, 2026

Link to the IEEE Website: https://tc.computer.org/vgtc/awards/vr-doctoral-dissertation-award/

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December 1 2025: Dr. Jain starts as Associate Editor, ACM Computing Surveys (2025-28). CSUR is widely recognized as the leading venue for authoritative, comprehensive, and high-quality survey articles in computing, with a 2024 Impact Factor of 28.

January 22, 2026

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November 30 2025: Our article “Towards Privacy-preserving Photorealistic Self-avatars in Mixed Reality” is recommended with Major Revisions to IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG). This article was based on Ethan’s dissertation work!

January 22, 2026

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November 19 2025: Our survey article “Eye-tracked Virtual Reality: A Comprehensive Survey on Methods and Privacy Challenges” was conditionally accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the IEEE. Congratulations Efe and colleagues!

January 22, 2026

Preprint available on arXiv.

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Aug 1, 2025: UF researchers making virtual reality accessible to all eyes

August 1, 2025

By Paris Carter A recent study led by a University of Florida engineering professor is challenging long-held assumptions in virtual reality design, particularly the belief that all users see the world the same way. The research by UF engineering professor Eakta Jain, Ph.D., highlights practical solutions for comprehensive virtual reality design by discussing how traditional […]

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