Faculty Profile for Dr. Isayas B Adhanom
Dr. Isayas B Adhanom
Assistant Professor — Computer Science
CMAL 307 E
phone: (512) 245-3409
Biography Section
Teaching Interests
Extended Reality and Spatial User Interfaces, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer GraphicsResearch Interests
Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Spatial Computing, Human-Centered Computing and Machine LearningSelected Scholarly/Creative Work
- Adhanom, I. B., MacNeilage, P., & Folmer, E. (2023). Eye tracking in virtual reality: a broad review of applications and challenges. Virtual Reality, 27(2), 1481--1505.
- Adhanom, I. B., Halow, S., Folmer, E., & MacNeilage, P. (2022). VR sickness adaptation with ramped optic flow transfers from abstract to realistic environments. Frontiers in Virtual Reality, 3, 848001.
- Adhanom, I. B., Al-Zayer, M., Macneilage, P., & Folmer, E. (2021). Field-of-view restriction to reduce VR sickness does not impede spatial learning in women. ACM Transactions on Applied Perception (TAP), 18(2), 1--17.
- Adhanom, I., Lee, S. C., Folmer, E., & MacNeilage, P. (2020). GazeMetrics: An Open-Source Tool for Measuring the Data Quality of HMD-based Eye Trackers. In In Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications (ETRA ’20).
- Adhanom, I. B., Griffin, N. N., MacNeilage, P., & Folmer, E. (2020). The effect of a foveated field-of-view restrictor on VR sickness. In 2020 IEEE conference on virtual reality and 3D user interfaces (VR) (pp. 645--652).
Selected Awards
- Award / Honor Recipient: IEEE VR 2022 IDA Scholarship, IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR). 2022 - Present
- Award / Honor Recipient: Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno. 2022
- Award / Honor Recipient: Special Recognitions for Outstanding Review, ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST 22). 2022
- Award / Honor Recipient: Graduate Student Association Travel Award, University of Nevada, Reno. 2020
Selected Service Activities
Member
VERA (Virtual Experience Research Accelerator) Participant Pool and DEIA Committees
February 2024-Present
Co-Chair
IEEE VR Workshop on Immersive Sickness Prevention (WISP 25)
2024-2025
Reviewer / Referee
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG)
2022-2025
Reviewer / Referee
ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)
September 2024-April 2025
Reviewer / Referee
IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (IEEE VR)
September 2024-March 2025