About Me
About Me
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I am an Assitant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Technology at Kean University in Union, New Jersey.
My research focuses on developing and applying Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR/AR) technologies to address human-centered problems. My current work examines pedestrian interactions with autonomous vehicles to improve pedestrian safety and investigates the use of AR in computer science education to enhance student learning.
More broadly, my research aims to understand human perception, decision-making, and behavior through immersive technologies across diverse domains. I am also interested in exploring the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) with immersive technologies to create more adaptive and intelligent virtual environments.
Research Area: Human–Computer Interaction (HCI), Human-Centered Computing, Human–Autonomous Vehicle Interaction, Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), Artifical Intelligence-Enhanced Extended Reality (AI-XR)
News
News
September 2026: Three undergraduate students I mentored presented their research posters at the Great Minds in STEM (GMiS) Conference in New Mexico !!
October 2025: Six students I mentored presented their research posters at the Great Minds in STEM (GMiS) Conference in California, where one of my undergraduate students won second place in the poster competition !!
Feb 2025: “Kean Students making Self Driving Cars Safer for Pedestrians” – On New Jersey (ONNJ) news reported my research using virtual reality to study pedestrian safety with self-driving cars.
January 2025: Kean News featured my research on pedestrian interactions with self-driving cars using Virtual Reality !!
October 2024:Three undergraduate students I mentored presented their research posters at the Great Minds in STEM (GMiS) Conference in Texas, where one of them won second place in the poster competition !!
September 2024: National Science Foundation (NSF) News featured findings from my doctoral research on child pedestrian safety and self-driving cars !!
July 2024: I published a new paper, “Deciding when to cross in front of an autonomous vehicle: How child and adult pedestrians respond to eHMI timing and vehicle kinematics,” in Accident Analysis & Prevention journal !!
October 2023: Three students I mentored presented their research poster at the Great Minds in STEM (GMiS) Conference in California, where one undergraduate student won first place in the poster competition (reported in Kean News) !!
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