- 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
- 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 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.
- 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.
- 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!
- 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!
- Aug 1, 2025: UF researchers making virtual reality accessible to all eyes
- May 7, 2025: Ethan successfully defends his PhD dissertation! Congratulations Dr. Wilson!
- April 20, 2025: The manuscript “Opto-diversity and Eye Tracking: Assumptions about ocular alignment in VR eye tracking exclude users with strabismus and amblyopia” has been accepted to ACM TAP 2025. Congratulations to Shaina and Shakthi!
- March 18, 2025: Bryce Grame speaks about eye tracking and transit bus driving on WCJB.
- Sept 1, 2024: Dr. Jain serves ACM SIGGRAPH as Chair of the Executive Committee for the year 2024-25.
- July 13, 2024: Dr. Jain speaks about human-horse interaction on the “Robots for the Rest of Us” podcast.
- June 18, 2024: is a summer visiting researcher at the Boston Dynamics AI Institute.
- May 21, 2024: Dr. Jain speaks about human-horse interaction on the BBC World Service program Unexpected Elements.
- May 10, 2024: Karina LaRubbio has accepted a Ph.D. offer at Brown University. Congratulations, Karina!
- May 6, 2024: Dr. Jain is an invited speaker at the AAMAS 2024 workshop RAD-AI on the topic “Rebellion and Disobedience in HRI: Insights from Human-horse interaction”
- April 15, 2024: Ethan accepts an internship offer at Meta Reality Labs Research! Congratulations Ethan!
- March 21, 2024: Ethan, Azim, Karina, Shakthi and Dr. David-John Attended IEEE VR’24 hosted at Disney Contemporary Resort.
- March 21, 2024: Ethan presents “Privacy-Preserving Gaze Data Streaming in Immersive Interactive Virtual Reality: Robustness and User Experience” at IEEE VR 2024
- March 17, 2024: Dr. Jain presents “Privacy in XR: Perspectives from the Eye Tracking Frontlines” at MASSXR, an IEEE VR workshop, on March 17th.
- March 15, 2024: Dr. Jain presents “Rebellion and Disobedience in HRI: Insights from human-horse interaction” at RAD-HRI, co-located with ACM HRI 2024
- March 14, 2024: Dr. Jain presents “Rebellion and Disobedience in HRI: Insights from Human-horse interaction” at the ACM HRI 2024 workshop RAD-HRI.
- March 11, 2024: Ethan to present “Privacy-Preserving Gaze Data Streaming in Immersive Interactive Virtual Reality: Robustness and User Experience” at IEEE VR 24. Preprint now available.
- February 1, 2024: Ethan’s paper “Towards mitigating uncann(eye)ness in face swaps via gaze-centric loss terms” is accepted to Computers and Graphics Journal Special Issue: Eye Gaze Visualization, Interaction, Synthesis, and Analysis.
- January 12, 2024: Dr. Jain named ACM Senior Member.
- December 27, 2023: Dr. Jain speaks about human-horse interaction on “my96.7 FM” podcast.
- December 15, 2023: Ethan Wilson successfully defends his thesis proposal. Congratulations Ethan!
- December 15, 2023: Zachary Tenn Yuk has been accepted into the 2024 NSF REU Program! Congratulations, Zachary !
- December 15, 2023: Ritam Rana has been accepted into the 2024 Emerging Scholars Program! Congratulations, Ritam!
- December 6, 2023: Dr. Jain presents “How human-horse interaction informs human-robot interaction” at John Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab
- August 30, 2023: Dr. Jain is an invited speaker at the Boston Dynamics AI Institute on “How human-horse interaction informs human-robot interaction”
- July 25, 2023: Dr. Jain is an invited speaker at the Army Research Lab (ARL) on “How human-horse interaction informs human-robot interaction”
- June 19, 2023: Dr. Jain is an invited speaker at the Amazon Robotics RoboTalks seminar series on “How human-horse interaction informs human-robot interaction”
- June 15, 2023: See ScienceNews article: How understanding horses could inspire more trustworthy robots
- May 23, 2023: Ethan Wilson is invited to attend 2023 S-STEM Scholars Meeting. Congratulations!
- May 23, 2023: Ethan to present “Introducing Explicit Gaze Constraints to Face Swapping” at ETRA 23. Preprint now available.
- April 25, 2023: See ScienceDaily and Equus Magazine Articles: How a horse whisperer can help engineers build better robots
- April 25, 2023: Dr. Jain presents “Horse as Teacher: How human-horse interaction informs human-robot interaction” at ACM SIGCHI 2023
- April 24, 2023: See UF News Article: How A Horse Whisperer Can Help Engineers Build Better Robots
- April 18, 2023: Jake accepts a software engineering internship at SLS Fire for Summer ’23. Congrats Jake!
- April 12, 2023: Ethan to present “Introducing Explicit Gaze Constraints to Face Swapping at ETRA ’23. Stay tuned for more details
- April 12, 2023: Karina accepts a Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship (SULI) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory for Summer ’23. Congratulations Karina!
- April 1, 2023: Dr. Jain is an invited speaker at the 2023 Spring DSI Symposium on the topic “Horse as Teacher: How human-horse interaction informs human-robot interaction”.
- Ethan and Karina attended IEEE VR’23 Satellite Event hosted by Virginia Tech
- Upcoming poster presentation “Give me some room please! Personal space bubbles for safety and performance” at IEEE VR 2023. Congratulations Karina and Ethan!
- Upcoming presentation on “Privacy-preserving datasets of eye-tracking samples with applications in XR” at IEEE VR 2023. Congratulations Brendan!
- Karina LaRubbio awarded a scholarship to do undergraduate research in Jain Lab as a University Scholar (2023-24). Congratulations Karina!
- Dr Jain named to ACM Executive Committee
- Joe Marks (CTO (Weta Digital) @ Unity) visits with the Jainlab during colloquium visit
- Karina LaRubbio is accepted to OurCS workshop at Carnegie Mellon. Congratulations Karina!
- Dr Jain is elected to SIGGRAPH Executive Committee
- Ethan Smith has been accepted into the 2022 NSF REU Program! Congratulations, Ethan!
- Eakta Jain is a panelist at SIGGRAPH ’22 – Privacy, Safety and Wellbeing: Solutions for the Future of AR and VR panel
- Field Trip to Horse Teaching Unit (Fall ’21)
- Brendan successfully defends his PhD dissertation! Congratulations Dr. David-John!
- Brendan presents at ETRA ’22
- ETRA ’22
- Eakta Jain is a panelist at ETRA ’22 – Eye Tracking in Healthcare and Medicine panel
- Ethan Passes his Qualifying exam! Congrats Ethan!
- Ethan and Nick present “The Uncanniness of Face Swaps” at VSS ’22
- Undergrad RA (2019) Garrick Sewsankar graduates with a Bachelor’s in Computer Science and Engineering Certificate in Artificial Intelligence. Congrats Garrick!
- Ethan presented “An Introduction to the Metaverse” as a guest lecture for the Legal Environment of Business course at Berry College.
- Brendan presented “AI for Human-Computer Interaction & Implications of Personalization on Privacy” at the UF Mini-Symposia Series: AI and Interactions with Society, organized by Dr. Amelia Winger-Bearskin and the UF Informatics Institute.
- Brendan presented “Eye-Tracking Applications: Pupillary Light Reflex & Intent to Interact” as a guest lecture in Eye-based Human Computer Interaction course at University of Tübingen taught by Dr. Thomas Kübler.
- Jeremiah and Karina presented “Who do you look like? Gaze-based authentication for workers in VR” at the UF Undergraduate Research Symposium.
- Ethan presented “An Introduction to the Metaverse” to the Gator TeamChild Juvenile Law Clinic at the University of Florida Levin College of Law.
- Brendan is selected to receive an IEEE VR 2022 Diversity Scholarship Award. Congrats Brendan!
- Karina LaRubbio is selected to receive an IEEE VR 2022 Bridge to VR Scholarship. Congrats Karina on being selected once again after receiving the scholarship in 2021!
- Brendan presented “Providing Privacy for Eye-Tracking Data with Applications in XR” at the Spring 2022 Cornell Bowers CIS Computer Science Colloquium Series.
- “The Uncanniness of Face Swaps” accepted to Vision Sciences Society VSS 2022. Congratulations Ethan, Aidan, and Nick!
- Karina LaRubbio’s REU project “Who do you look like? – Gaze-based authentication for workers in VR” is conditionally accepted as a poster to IEEE VR. Congratulations Karina, Jeremiah, and graduate mentor Brendan!.
- “Is the Avatar Scared? Pupil as a Perceptual Cue” is accepted to Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds. Congratulations Yuzhu!.
- Brendan presented “Providing Privacy for Eye-Tracking Data with Applications in XR” at the Virginia Tech Computer Science Spring 2022 Seminar Series.
- Brendan is interviewed by UF Student Life to discuss co-founding UF’s AISES chapter.
- New undergraduate course approved! Keep an eye out for CAP 4xxx Generating Expressiveness in Intelligent Agents and Avatars in Fall 2022 or Spring 2023.
- Brendan successfully defends his thesis proposal, “For Your Eyes Only: Providing Privacy for Eye-Tracking Datasets with Applications in XR”. Congrats Brendan!
- Brendan’s work on eye tracking privacy featured on UF CISE website!
- Dr. Jain joins SIGGRAPH 2021 Technical Papers Chair Sylvain Paris, Chris Bregler (sr. staff scientist, Google AI), and Matthias Nießner (professor, TU München) for a SIGGRAPH Spotlight discussion on deep fakes and implications.
- Dr. Jain is an invited panelist at the Berthouzoz Women in Research Event at SIGGRAPH 2021.
- Yuzhu Dong accepts a position as Research Engineer at Google DeepMind. Congratulations Yuzhu!
- Srividya Surampudi, an alumna in Jain Lab, accepted a position as a software engineer at Apple. Congrats Srividya!
- Song Li is on his way to pursue a Masters degree at Johns Hopkins University. Song did his senior project at Jain Lab in Fall 2020 on Residual Attention Networks for recognizing illustrations. Congratulations Song!
- “A Privacy-Preserving Approach to Streaming Eye-Tracking Data” is nominated for Best Paper Award at IEEE VR 2021.
- Brendan is selected to receive a L3Harris Corporation Communication Graduate Fellowship. Congrats Brendan!
- Brendan presented “Locking Eyes” at the Montana State University Gianforte School of Computing Weekly Seminar, hosted by Dr. Sean Yaw.
- Dr. Jain presents at Human factors research at UFTI: Current Research and Future Directions, STRIDE Webinar.
- The PrXR workshop submission deadline has been extended to Jan. 26, 2021.
- Dr. Jain presents “Locking Eyes” at an invited seminar for the UCR Computer Science & Engineering Colloquium, hosted by Dr. Tamar Shinar.
- “PrXR: Towards a roadmap for privacy and security research for mixed reality applications”, a workshop organized by Dr. Jain, Brendan David-John, Dr. Kevin Butler, and Diane Hosfelt will be held virtually at IEEE VR 2021. We are now accepting submissions for position papers. Please see the webpage for submission details
- Yuzhu Dong graduates with a PhD in Human-Centered Computing. Congratulations Yuzhu!
- Dr. Jain is a panelist for the CISE Virtual Junior Preview panel organized by Dr. McMullen and the CISE Graduate Recruitment Committee.
- Dr. Jain presents “Locking Eyes” at the Facebook Reality Labs: Research seminar, hosted by Dr. Tanya Jonker.
- Ethan Wilson is selected as a 2020-2021 Generation Next Scholar. Congrats Ethan!
- Yuzhu Dong presents “Adult2child: Motion Style Transfer using CycleGANs” at MIG2020. Congratulations Yuzhu!
- Brendan is recognized as first place winner of the the Graduate Student Oral Research Presentation Competition at 2020 AISES National Conference for “The Security-Utility Trade-off for Iris Authentication and Eye Animation for Social Virtual Avatars”. Congrats Brendan!
- Dr. Jain is a panelist for the Interdisciplinary Research session in Research and Creativity HUM2930 along with Drs. Ralf Remshardt, Dietmar Siemann, Walter Lee Murfee, and Christine Miller.
- Brendan John is awarded prestigious Google PhD Fellowship. Congratulations Brendan!
- Dr. Jain presents “ISTREET-Initiative: Evaluation of Intelligent School Zone Beacon and Vehicle-Cyclist Detection and Warning System at the STRIDE Webinar”.
- Dr. Jain presents “User Security and Privacy in Pursuit of Compelling Virtual Avatars” at CMU Graphics Seminar.
- Heting Wang and Ethan Wilson join the lab as PhD students. Welcome!
