The Grainger College of Engineering
IMMERSE Center for Immersive Computing

IMMERSE Seminar Series

IMMERSE Seminar Series

IMMERSE is proud to support a weekly seminar series during Fall and Spring semesters.

This is a chance for the IMMERSE community to engage regularly around topics of interest via presentations, panel discussions, invited speakers, and more.

Interested in sharing your work with the IMMERSE community? Please contact immerse@illinois.edu and let us know.

 

Upcoming Seminars

 

Sep
24

IMMERSE Seminar: Heidi Phillips

  • September 24, 2026
  • Thursday, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Siebel School of Computing and Data Science 2405
  • Heidi Phillips
Oct
1

IMMERSE Seminar - Jason Climer

  • October 1, 2026
  • Thursday, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Siebel School of Computing and Data Science Room 2405
  • Jason Climer
Oct
8

IMMERSE Seminar: Ismini Lourentzou

  • October 8, 2026
  • Thursday, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Siebel School of Computing and Data Science 2405
  • Ismini Lourentzou
Oct
15

IMMERSE Seminar - Shenlong Wang

  • October 15, 2026
  • Thursday, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Siebel School of Computing and Data Science Room 2405
  • Shenlong Wang
Oct
22

IMMERSE Seminar - Minjia Zhang

  • October 22, 2026
  • Thursday, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Siebel School of Computing and Data Science Room 2405
  • Minjia Zhang
Oct
29

IMMERSE Seminar - Deanna McDonagh

  • October 29, 2026
  • Thursday, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Siebel School of Computing and Data Science Room 2405
  • Deanna McDonagh
Nov
5

IMMERSE Seminar - Jina Kang

  • November 5, 2026
  • Thursday, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Siebel School of Computing and Data Science Room 2405
  • Jina Kang
Nov
12

IMMERSE Distinguished Speaker- Barry Silverstein

  • November 12, 2026
  • Thursday, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Siebel School of Computing and Data Science Room 2405
  • Barry Silverstein
Nov
19

IMMERSE Seminar - Avinash Gupta

  • November 19, 2026
  • Thursday, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Siebel School of Computing and Data Science Room 2405
  • Avinash Gupta
 
 

Go to Calendar

 

Past Distinguished Lectures

Beyond the Headset: Social and Spatial Design for Public VR

Beyond the Headset: Social and Spatial Design for Public VR

Ruth West

University of North Texas

May 1, 2026
Efficient and Effective Immersive Visual Interfaces Through Viewpoint Generalization

Efficient and Effective Immersive Visual Interfaces Through Viewpoint Generalization

Voicu Popescu

Purdue University

March 6, 2026
Feeling the Data: Haptics as Information Media in Immersive Environments

Feeling the Data: Haptics as Information Media in Immersive Environments

Ali Israr

ViiVAI Labs and Studio

November 6, 2025

Past Seminars

XR: Why Looking Beyond the Headset Matters

XR: Why Looking Beyond the Headset Matters

Cedric Dumas

April 17, 2026
Building Spatial Haptic Interfaces

Building Spatial Haptic Interfaces

Craig Shultz

February 13, 2026
Immersion as a Lens: Using VR to Understand Human Experience

Immersion as a Lens: Using VR to Understand Human Experience

Mike Yao

November 20, 2025
Virtual Futures: Creating Virtual Worlds

Virtual Futures: Creating Virtual Worlds

Dominic Kao

November 13, 2025
Trinity and miVirtualSeat - Low latency Streaming and Content Distribution in Immersive Contexts

Trinity and miVirtualSeat - Low latency Streaming and Content Distribution in Immersive Contexts

Mingyuan Wu, Lingzhi Zhao, and Klara Nahrstedt

October 30, 2025
The PLAYlab: Games and Interactive Research for Social Good

The PLAYlab: Games and Interactive Research for Social Good

Katryna Starks

October 9, 2025
Physics-Based Differentiable and Inverse Rendering

Physics-Based Differentiable and Inverse Rendering

Shuang Zhao

October 2, 2025
Propositional Modeling: Participatory Visualization for the Architectural Digital Humanities

Propositional Modeling: Participatory Visualization for the Architectural Digital Humanities

Colter Wehmeier

September 25, 2025
Designing for Iterative Sequences of Embodied Learning Activities

Designing for Iterative Sequences of Embodied Learning Activities

Joshua Danish

September 18, 2025
Growing XR Development at Illinois: Inside the Stu/dio

Growing XR Development at Illinois: Inside the Stu/dio

Dan Cermak, Robbie Sieczkowski, Sep Vaez Afshar

September 11, 2025
The Stu/dio: A Student Management Team for VR Game Development Projects Supporting Education and Research at UIUC Through Game Studies & Design

The Stu/dio: A Student Management Team for VR Game Development Projects Supporting Education and Research at UIUC Through Game Studies & Design

Sepehr Vaez Afshar, Robbie Sieczkowski

April 10, 2025
Immersive Environments for Cultural Memory, Bio-Heritage, and Hearing Research

Immersive Environments for Cultural Memory, Bio-Heritage, and Hearing Research

Sharath Chandra Ramakrishnan

April 3, 2025
IMMERSE Assistant Director Updates

IMMERSE Assistant Director Updates

Jake Metz, James Planey, Bryan Wang

March 27, 2025
Cultivating Learning with XR Technologies: Immersion, Embodiment, and Perspective-Taking

Cultivating Learning with XR Technologies: Immersion, Embodiment, and Perspective-Taking

Robb Lindgren

March 13, 2025
Foundational Elements of UX (User Experience) in VR Development

Foundational Elements of UX (User Experience) in VR Development

Dan Cermak

March 6, 2025
Parasol Lab - Improving Experience in Virtual Reality: Measuring and Mitigating Cybersickness using Brain Activity

Parasol Lab - Improving Experience in Virtual Reality: Measuring and Mitigating Cybersickness using Brain Activity

Katherine Mimnaugh

February 27, 2025
POINT VR: Physics Outreach and Instruction through New Technologies (POINT): Using Virtual Reality to Visualize and Teach Gravity

POINT VR: Physics Outreach and Instruction through New Technologies (POINT): Using Virtual Reality to Visualize and Teach Gravity

Kristen Schumacher (POINT VR)

February 20, 2025
RAISe Lab - Enhancing Human-Robot Collaboration in Construction Through Immersive and Intelligent User Interfaces

RAISe Lab - Enhancing Human-Robot Collaboration in Construction Through Immersive and Intelligent User Interfaces

Shayan Shayesteh (RAISe Lab)

February 13, 2025
ILLIXR: An End-to-End Systems Research Approach to Enable the Era of Immersive Computing

ILLIXR: An End-to-End Systems Research Approach to Enable the Era of Immersive Computing

ILLIXR Group: Steven Gao, Qinjun Jiang, Jeffrey Liu, Bakshree Mishra, Yihan Pang, Rahul Singh

February 6, 2025
Kickoff planning session

Kickoff planning session

January 30, 2025

Missed a Seminar?

Whenever possible IMMERSE records and archives seminar presentations, you can find them on our campus Mediaspace channel:

Seminar Recording Archive