Faculty and Staff
Joseph T. Kider Jr.

Joseph T. Kider Jr.

Associate Professor and Co-Director

Joe is the Co-Director of the SENSEable Design Lab. His research focuses on the transdisciplinary digital design of smart, sustainable architecture. He works on high-dimensional light transport problems, such as complex illumination, material appearance, physically-based simulation, and spectral rendering, which facilitate a unique approach to provide both more accurate simulations and efficient algorithms for simulating sustainable architecture and smart buildings. He has received funding and equipment from the National Science Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, USDA, DARPA, and the Air Force Research Laboratory.

Lori C. Walters

Lori C. Walters

Research Associate Professor and Co-Director

Lori directs the ChronoPoints laser scanning project as Co-Director of the SENSEable Design Lab at IST, School of Modeling, Simulation & Training (SMST). Her research interests include the application of laser scanning, virtual and augmented reality to post-World War historical topics. She has received support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, National Science Foundation, Army Research Lab, Microsoft, and the State of Florida Bureau of Historic Preservation. Lori can never resist working on any project that addresses an aspect of Mid-Century architecture and design and is known to obsess about one amazing Mid-Century building, the Cocoa Beach Glass Bank.

Robert A. Michlowitz

Robert A. Michlowitz

Post Doctoral Scholar

Rob is a Postdoctoral Scholar at IST, School of Modeling, Simulation & Training at the University of Central Florida. His varied academic background includes degrees in Management (B.S.), Economics (M.A.), Computer Science (B.S.), and Modeling and Simulation (M.S., Ph.D.), which fits into the diverse research mission of IST. He has assisted Dr. Walters in the preparation of several National Science Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, and State of Florida grants. In 2015, Dr. Walters and Rob were one of ten awardees in the Microsoft HoloLens for Research competition which had over 500 universities and nonprofit teams competing. Rob has a diverse love and knowledge of technology, economics and has a good lay knowledge of history. He specializes in putting things together (people, technology, and ideas).

Graduate Students

John Sermarini

Ph.D. Candidate

Joshua Haley

Ph.D. Student

Emily Port

Emily Port

Ph.D. Student

Michael Sterkel

Ph.D. Student

Malic Dekkar

Malic Dekkar

LiDAR Researcher

Larry Moralez

Larry Moralez

Ph.D. Student

Undergraduate Students

Emily Hannon

Undergraduate

Alumni
Lauren Doocy

Lauren Doocy

Ph.D. Modeling & Simulation

Alejandro Carbonell Alcocer

Alejandro Carbonell Alcocer

Visiting Ph.D. Student

Donna Liu

BS

Isabel Thomsen

Undergraduate

Joslyn Parchman

Joslyn Parchman

Software Development and Research

Joseph Del Rocco

Joseph Del Rocco

Ph.D. CS

Emily Soto Garcia

Undergraduate

Isabela Rovira

Undergraduate

Abbie Easter

Abbie Easter

BS Education/Art History

Courtney Verna-Brown

Courtney Verna-Brown

BS History

Arash Zarmehr

Ph.D. Modeling & Simulation

Logan Harvell

Undergraduate

Jeralyn Parchman

Jeralyn Parchman

Software Development and Research

Aysegül Kidik

Aysegül Kidik

Visiting Ph.D. Student

Joshua DeSantiago

MS Modeling & Simulation

Nathan Moulton

Undergraduate

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