MxR
I founded and direct the MxR (Mixed Reality) Lab and Studio, a creative research environment intertwined between the School of Cinematic Arts (SCA) and the Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT) as a sandbox in which I could play with USC’s world leading storytellers, interactive media artists, engineers, computer scientists, and research psychologists. The lab is housed in a 14,000 s.f. warehouse at ICT and the studio is on the 3rd floor of the Interactive Media building at USC. At present, MxR is home to more than 25 students, staff, interns, and researchers on projects funded by over $2.5 million in annual gifts and grants by fantastic sponsors that help to push the vision of human computer interaction.
Lab
Studio
Mark Bolas, Director for Mixed Reality Research
David Krum, Computer Scientist
Sin-Hwa Kang, Research Associate
Thai Phan, Industrial Design Engineer
Ryan Spicer, Programmer Analyst III
Rhys Yahata, Programmer Analyst II
Alice Zhou, REU Intern
Ayaana Sikora, SURF Student
David Nelson, Special Project Manager
Allison Aptaker, Project Specialist Admin
Dave Dorsey, Lab Assistant
Stephen Pinkerton, Graduate Research Assistant
Tyler Ard, Postdoctor-Scholar
Evan Suma, Research Assistant Professor
Timofey Grechkin, Postdoctor-Scholar
Jerald Thomas, Summer Intern
Courtney Hutton, REU Intern
Himanshu Chaturvedi, Research Assistant
Nate Newsome, Research Assistant
Mark Bolas, Associate Professor
David Nelson, Special Project Manager
Vangelis Lympouridis, Project Coordinator
Fotos Frangoudes, USC/Computer Science (Ph.D)
Jasmine Ying, USC/Computer Science Games (BS)
Robert Paul Warren Finney, USC/Interactive Media (MFA)
Joel Luis Suarez, USC/Visual Anthropology (BA)
Cooper Benjamin Surrett, USC/Psychology (BA)
Ashley Yu-Chih, USC/Computer Science Games (BS)
Anshul Ashok Pendse, USC/Computer Science (MS)
Frederico de Sa Fernandez, USC/Animation & Digital Arts (MFA)
Wasef El-Kharouf, USC/TV Film Production (MA)
Aaron Michael Reihs, USC/Thornton Music Composition (BFA)
Jonathan (Nathan) Iskandar, USC/Computer Science Games (BS)
Joy Winston Dsouza, USC/Computer Science Games (MS)
Jin Zhang, USC/Computer Science Games (Graduate)
Paul Richard Hughes, USC/TV Film Production (MA)
Sikandar Pratap Singh Sidhu, USC/TV Film Production (MA)
Lindsay Townley, USC/Animation & Digital Arts (BA)
Christine Deanna Barron, USC/Animation & Digital Arts (BA)