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Education

• Ph.D in Human-Computer Interaction focusing on Mixed Reality, 2025 (expected)
  • Dissertation: Immersive Sensemaking with Rich Semantic Interaction
  • Keywords: Eye tracking, Sensemaking, Semantic interaction, Immersive analytics
• B.S. in Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, 2017

Work experience

• Graduate Research Assistant, Computer Science, Virginia Tech
  • Supervisor: Doug Bowman
• Computing Scholar Intern, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, California
  • I worked on detecting and visualizing defects in digital twins of additive manufacturing models with occlusion management for synchronous and asynchronous collaboration.

Skills

• Mixed Reality Research
  • Unity
  • Unreal
  • C#
  • Eye tracking
  • Developing for Mixed Reality headsets: Meta Quest Pro, Varjo XR-3
  • Developing for Optical Augmented Reality headsets: HoloLens 2, Magic Leap 2
• Semantic Interaction Research
  • Transformer-based similarity models
  • User-centered AI recommendations
  • Text summarization
  • Topic modeling
  • Information retrieval
• HCI Research
  • UX design and evaluation
  • User Studies
  • Statistical analysis

Publications

Enhancing Immersive Sensemaking with Gaze-Driven Smart Recommendations

Investigating Professional Analyst Strategies in Immersive Space to Think

Davidson, K., Lisle, L., Tahmid, I. A., Whitley, K., North, C., & Bowman, D. A. (2024). Investigating Professional Analyst Strategies in Immersive Space to Think. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.

The Alchemist: A Gesture-Based 3D User Interface for Engaging Arithmetic Calculations

Lane, L., Giovannelli, A., Tahmid, I., Rodrigues, F., Ilo, C., Hsu, D., Lougiakis, C., Davari, S. and Bowman, D.A., 2024, March. The Alchemist: A Gesture-Based 3D User Interface for Engaging Arithmetic Calculations. In 2024 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW) (pp. 1106-1107). IEEE.

Uncovering Best Practices in Immersive Space to Think

Davidson, K., Lisle, L., Tahmid, I. A., Whitley, K., North, C., & Bowman, D. A. (2023, October). Uncovering Best Practices in Immersive Space to Think. In 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) (pp. 1094-1103). IEEE.

Spaces to Think: A Comparison of Small, Large, and Immersive Displays for the Sensemaking Process

L. Lisle, K. Davidson, L. Pavanatto, I. A. Tahmid, C. North and D. A. Bowman, "Spaces to Think: A Comparison of Small, Large, and Immersive Displays for the Sensemaking Process," 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), Sydney, Australia, 2023, pp. 1084-1093

CoLT: Enhancing Collaborative Literature Review Tasks with Synchronous and Asynchronous Awareness Across the Reality-Virtuality Continuum

Tahmid, I. A., Rodrigues, F., Giovannelli, A., Lisle, L., Thomas, J., & Bowman, D. A. (2023, October). CoLT: Enhancing Collaborative Literature Review Tasks with Synchronous and Asynchronous Awareness Across the Reality-Virtuality Continuum. In 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Adjunct (ISMAR-Adjunct) (pp. 831-836). IEEE.

Evaluating the Feasibility of Predicting Information Relevance During Sensemaking with Eye Gaze Data

Tahmid, I. A., Lisle, L., Davidson, K., Whitley, K., North, C., & Bowman, D. A. (2023, October). Evaluating the Feasibility of Predicting Information Relevance During Sensemaking with Eye Gaze Data. In 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) (pp. 713-722). IEEE.

CLUE HOG: An Immersive Competitive Lock-Unlock Experience using Hook On Go-Go Technique for Authentication in the Metaverse

Giovannelli, A., Rodrigues, F., Davari, S., Tahmid, I.A., Lane, L., Connor, C., Davidson, K., Ramirez, G.N., David-John, B. and Bowman, D.A., 2023, March. CLUE HOG: An Immersive Competitive Lock-Unlock Experience using Hook On Go-Go Technique for Authentication in the Metaverse. In 2023 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW) (pp. 945-946). IEEE.

Evaluating the benefits of explicit and semi-automated clusters for immersive sensemaking

Tahmid, I. A., Lisle, L., Davidson, K., North, C., & Bowman, D. A. (2022, October). Evaluating the benefits of explicit and semi-automated clusters for immersive sensemaking. In 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) (pp. 479-488). IEEE.

Evaluation of Pointing Ray Techniques for Distant Object Referencing in Model-Free Outdoor Collaborative Augmented Reality

Li, Y., Tahmid, I. A., Lu, F., & Bowman, D. A. (2022). Evaluation of pointing ray techniques for distant object referencing in model-free outdoor collaborative augmented reality. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 28(11), 3896-3906.

Clean the ocean: An immersive vr experience proposing new modifications to go-go and wim techniques

Lisle, L., Lu, F., Davari, S., Tahmid, I.A., Giovannelli, A., Llo, C., Pavanatto, L., Zhang, L., Schlueter, L. and Bowman, D.A., 2022, March. Clean the ocean: An immersive vr experience proposing new modifications to go-go and wim techniques. In 2022 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW) (pp. 920-921). IEEE.

Fantastic voyage 2021: Using interactive VR storytelling to explain targeted COVID-19 vaccine delivery to antigen-presenting cells

Zhang, L., Lu, F., Tahmid, I.A., Davari, S., Lisle, L., Gutkowski, N., Schlueter, L. and Bowman, D.A., 2021, March. Fantastic voyage 2021: Using interactive VR storytelling to explain targeted COVID-19 vaccine delivery to antigen-presenting cells. In 2021 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW) (pp. 695-696). IEEE.

Awards

• Recipient of Pratt Fellowship for the academic year 2024-25
• Recipient of the 3DUI Contest Winner 2021, 2022

Service and leadership

• Recipient of ASPIRE! Award 2024 for Self-Understanding and Integrity, 2024
• Awarded for organizing the Most Outstanding Program of the year 2022
• Student Ambassador for Cranwell International Center at Virginia Tech, 2023-24
• Vice President for Association for Bangladeshi Students at Virginia Tech, 2022-23
• President of the BUET Photographic Society, 2017