2025 (Linked In DVXR Group)

  • 3D Wall Pics at DVXR lab during Wipro-UNT MOU Signing (Feb)
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  • Keynote Talk by Dr. Sharad Sharma at the MIRS (Multidisciplinary Inforamtion Research Symposium) on Feb 21, 2025.MIRS
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2024 

2023

  • Congratulations to the graduate students: Bhoj Bhatt and Sri Chandra from our DVXR Lab to secure 1st prize and 2nd Prize at the UNT COI 15th-anniversary celebration event (November 10, 2023).
    • 1st Place: Mobile App for Object Tracking and Location-Based Data for Time Series Analysis (Bhoj Bhatt)
    • 2nd Place: Crime Data and Visualization through HoloLens 2 and Oculus Quest Pro (Sri Chandra)
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  • Dr. Sharma won the Faculty Excellence Award for Top 5 Recipients & Most Awarded Grants Award and Outstanding Mentor Award at UNT on November 10, 2023.
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  • DVXR Group at the UNT COI 15th-anniversary celebration event (November 10, 2023).
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  • Five (5) Posters presented at the UNT COI 15th-anniversary celebration event by the DVXR graduate students on November 10, 2023. The posters were:.
    • Mobile App for Object Tracking and Location-Based Data for Time Series Analysis (By: Bhoj Bhatt), (1st Place Award)
    • Crime Data and Visualization through HoloLens 2 and Oculus Quest Pro (By: Sri Chandra Dronavalli), (2nd Place Award)
    • Mobile Application for Identifying Anomalous Behavior and Conducting Time Series Analysis using Parking Lot Data, (By: Maruthi Prasanna)
    • Real Time Object Detection and Emotion Detection via Camera using React Native, Python Flask, Coco Dataset and OpenCV, (By: Suruthi Selvam)
    • Situational Awareness-based Augmented Reality Instructional (ARI) Module for Building Evacuation, (By: Rishitha Reddy Pesaladinne)
  • Dr. Sharma was the Moderator at 6TH IFIP International Internet of Things (IoT) Conference, Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, Texas, USA, 2-3 November 2023.
    • Expert Panel - IoT for Food Safety and Healthcare, Thursday, November 2 16:30 - 17:30
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  • Dr. Sharad Sharma was the Conference Planning Committee member for the 2nd Annual NSF HDR Ecosystem Conference, Denver, CO, October 16-18, 2023
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  • Discovery Series: Software Systems Lab: An Overview of Ongoing Projects at UNR by Dr. Frederick C. Harris, Jr. and Dr. Sergiu Dascalu
    • Date: September 29, 2023 from 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
    • Location: In-Person at Business Leadership Building (BLB), Room 010, and Zoom
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  • Research Presentations by 7 DVXR Lab students to UNR Professors on September 29, 2023 from 11:00 - 1:00 p.m.
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  • Education Outreach Day 2023
    • Recruiting event hosted at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center Dallas on 5/18/2023.
    • Students Participated: Rishitha Reddy Pesaladinne & Praneeth Koppolu
    • You Tube Video, Pictures of the event.
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  • 15 Final Group Projects on Virtual Reality Presented on May 3, 2023. (Flyer)
  • The following 2 paper in accepted for publication and presentation in Summer 2023.
  • Two conference proceedings paper presented at the IS&T International Symposium on Electronic Imaging (EI 2023) in the Engineering Reality of Virtual Reality Conference on January 15-19, 2023.
    • Sharma, S., Park, J.W, Morris, B. T, "Immersive security personnel training module for active shooter events," Proceedings of the IS&T International Symposium on Electronic Imaging (EI 2023) in the Engineering Reality of Virtual Reality Conference, January 15-19, 2023.
    • Sharma, S., Engel, D., "Mobile augmented reality system for object detection, alert, and safety", Proceedings of the IS&T International Symposium on Electronic Imaging (EI 2023) in the Engineering Reality of Virtual Reality Conference, January 15-19, 2023.
  • Elsevier Safety Science Journal paper published focusing on active shooter events and behavior modeling.
    • Arteaga, C., Park, J.W, Morris, B.T, Sharma,S., "Effect of trained evacuation leaders on victims' safety during an active shooter incident", Elsevier Safety Science, ISSN 0925-7535, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2022.105967, Volume 158, 105967, 2023.

2022

  • IEEE -CSCI paper on Mobile AR application for navigation and emergency response accepted for presentation on December 15, 2022
    • Mannuru, N. R., Kanumuru, M., and Sharma, S., "Mobile AR application for navigation and emergency response", Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence , (IEEE-CSCI-RTMC), Las Vegas, USA, December 14-16, 2022.
  • Dr. Sharma was the program chair for the 2nd Graduate Research Workshop (GRW2022) at Bowie State University on April 29, 2022.
  • Dr. Sharma has 6 NSF Grants active in 2021-2022.
  • Dr. Sharma gave a Key Note Talk at the 2022 IEEE International Mobile and Embedded Technology Conference (MECON - 2022), titled "Mobile Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality Applications for Situational Awareness and Emergency response", 11 March 2022.