• I am currently the leader of the Steering Committee for the IEEE / ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, and have been a member of the Steering Committee since 2002.
• Program Chair for IEEE / ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality 2002 and 2005
• Program Chair for International Symposium on Augmented Reality 2001.
• Area Chair for IEEE / ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality 2004 [One of ten area chairs who decided which papers to accept} and 2006, 2007 (one of 12 area chairs)
• Awards Chair for IEEE / ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality 2008
• Instructor in ACM SIGGRAPH 1995, 1997, 2001, and 2004 courses
• Invited attendee of the 9th Annual National Academy of Engineering Symposium on Frontiers of Engineering (Sept. 2003).  Attendance was limited to 100 young engineers (50% from industry, 50% from academia) chosen through a competitive selection process.  Also invited attendee of the 2005 Japan-America Frontiers of Engineering Symposium (Nov. 2005)
• IEEE VRAIS (95-98) program committee
• IEEE Virtual Reality conference (1999-2002) program committee
• ACM VRST conference (2004-2005, 2009) program committee
• First International Workshop on Mobile Geospatial Augmented Reality scientific committee (2006)
• International Workshop on Augmented Reality (1998-2000) program committee
• Reviewer for SIGGRAPH, IEEE TVCG, IEEE VR, Presence, EGVE, and others
• Invited speaker at Virtual Reality and Software Technologies 2000 (Seoul, South Korea)
• Invited speaker at Workshop on Wearable Computer Systems (Seattle, WA, Aug. 1996)
• Invited speaker to the First International Symposium on Mixed Reality (ISMR '99, Yokohama, Japan)
• Invited speaker to the 5th Eurographics Workshop on Virtual Environments (with a special focus on AR) (Vienna, Austria, June 1999)
• IEEE Senior Member
• ACM Senior Member
• Member ACM SIGGRAPH and IEEE Computer Society
• Former Science Advisory Board Member of the USC Integrated Media Systems Center
• Former advisory board member for UC Irvine's Center for Virtual Reality

Education

• Ph.D. Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  May 1995 (Pogue Fellowship, 3 years)
• M.S. Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, May 1990
• B.S. Electrical Engineering / Computer Science, University of California at Berkeley, May 1988 (Chancellor's and National Merit scholarships)

Experience

• Research Leader, Nokia Research Center Hollywood.  (October 2008 - present)
• Senior Research Staff Computer Scientist, HRL Laboratories (December 1999 - October 2008)
• Research Staff Member, HRL / Hughes Research Laboratories (March 1995 - December 1999)
• Research Assistant, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Computer Science (May 1989 - February 1995)
• Instructor, UNC Chapel Hill Computer Science (Summer 1992)
• Software Engineer, Apple Computer (Summers of 1986 - 1988)

External contract funding (while at HRL / Hughes Research Laboratories)

• Pre-launch weapon detection.  One DARPA STO seeding (2008)
• CT2WS (Cognitive Technology Threat Warning System).  DARPA STO (2007)
• COVER ME seedling.  DARPA IXO (2007)
• UltraVis seedling and Immersive Operations panel.  DARPA IXO (2006)
• Pre-launch detection of RPG's.  Two DARPA TTO seedlings (2005-6)
• Visualization for Insight into the Overall NAS (VisION).  AFRL Rome (2004-5)
• AR Vision System for Ground Controller.  SBIR (NASA / Seagull) in two phases (1997 - 1999)
• Direct Visualization of the Electronic Battlefield.  DARPA ATO (1999 - 2000)
• Geospatial Registration of Information for Dismounted Soldiers.  DARPA ETO (1997 - 1999)
• Human-Computer Symbiotes.  DARPA ITO (1997 - 1999)

Languages

A person who speaks three languages is tri-lingual.  A person who speaks two is bi-lingual.  A person who can speak only one is American.  I'm an American.

• Ronald Azuma, Howard Neely III, Mike Daily, Jon Leonard.  Performance Analysis of an Outdoor Augmented Reality Tracking System that Relies Upon a Few Mobile Beacons.  Proc. IEEE and ACM Int'l Symp. on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR 2006) (Santa Barbara, CA, 22-25 Oct. 2006), pp. 101-104.
• Mike Daily, Ron Azuma, Youngkwan Cho, Troy Rockwood, and Susan Gottschlich. Tactial Alert Management.  Proc. 2006 Int'l Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI '06) (Las Vegas, NV, 26-29 June 2006), pp. 337-343.
• Ron Azuma, Mike Daily, Chris Furmanski.  A Review of Time Critical Decision Making Models and Human Cognitive Processes.  Proc. 2006 IEEE Aerospace Conference (Big Sky, MT, 4-11 March 2006).
• Ronald Azuma, Jason Fox, and Chris Furmanski.  Evaluating Visualization Modes for Closely-Spaced Parallel Approaches.  Proc. HFES 49th Annual Meeting (Orlando, FL, 26-30 Sept. 2005), pp. 35-39.
• Ronald Azuma, Tim Clausner, Mike Daily, Jason Fox, and Mary E. Miller.  Visualization Concepts for Generating Insight from NAS Simulation Data.  Proc. AIAA 2005 Modeling and Simulation Conference (San Francisco, 15-18 Aug. 2005)
• Ronald Azuma, Chris Furmanski. Evaluating Label Placement for Augmented Reality View Management.  Proc. IEEE and ACM Int'l Symp. on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR 2003) (Tokyo, 7-10 Oct. 2003), pp. 66-75.
• Chris Furmanski, Ronald Azuma, Mike Daily.  Augmented-reality visualizations guided by cognition: Perceptual heuristics for combining visible and obscured information.  Proc. IEEE and ACM Int'l Symp. on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR 2002) (Darmstadt, Germany, 30 Sept. - 1 Oct. 2002), pp. 215-224.
• Ronald Azuma, Yohan Baillot, Reinhold Behringer, Steven Feiner, Simon Julier, Blair MacIntyre.  Recent Advances in Augmented Reality.  IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 21, 6 (Nov/Dec 2001), 34-47.
• Azuma, Ronald T.  Augmented Reality: Approaches and Technical Challenges.  Book chapter in Fundamentals of Wearable Computers and Augmented Reality, Woodrow Barfield and Thomas Caudell, editors. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2001, ISBN 0-8058-2901-6.  Chapter 2, pp. 27-63.
• Bruce Hoff, Ronald Azuma.  Autocalibration of an Electronic Compass in an Outdoor Augmented Reality System.  Proc. of Int'l Symp. on Augmented Reality 2000 (Munich, Germany, 5-6 Oct. 2000), pp. 159-164.
• Ronald Azuma, Howard Neely III, Michael Daily, Ryan Geiss.  Visualization Tools for Free Flight Air-Traffic Management.  IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 20, 5 (Sept/Oct 2000), 32-36.
• Azuma, Ronald, Jong Weon Lee, Bolan Jiang, Jun Park, Suya You, and Ulrich Neumann. Tracking in unprepared environments for augmented reality systems.  Computers & Graphics 23, 6 (December 1999), 787-793.
• You, Suya, Ulrich Neumann, and Ronald Azuma.  Orientation Tracking for Outdoor Augmented Reality Registration.  IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 19, 6 (Nov/Dec 1999), 36-42.
• Azuma, Ronald, Howard Neely III, Mike Daily, Mario Correa.  Visualization of Conflicts and Resolutions in a "Free Flight" Scenario.  Proc. of IEEE Visualization '99 (San Francisco, 24-29 Oct. 1999), pp. 433-436, 557.
• Azuma, Ronald, Bruce Hoff, Howard Neely III, Ron Sarfaty.  A Motion-Stabilized Outdoor Augmented Reality System.  Proc. of IEEE Virtual Reality '99 (Houston, TX, 13-17 March 1999), pp. 252-259.
• You, Suya, Ulrich Neumann, and Ronald Azuma.  Hybrid Inertial and Vision Tracking for Augmented Reality Registration.  Proc. of IEEE Virtual Reality '99 (Houston, TX, 13-17 March 1999), pp. 260-267.
• Azuma, Ronald T.  The Challenge of Making Augmented Reality Work Outdoors. Book chapter in Mixed Reality: Merging Real and Virtual Worlds, Yuichi Ohta and Hideyuki Tamura, editors.  Springer-Verlag, 1999, ISBN 3-540-65623-5.  Chapter 21, pp. 379-390.  Associated with invited presentation at First Int'l Symp. on Mixed Reality (ISMR 1999) (Yokohama, Japan, 9-11 March 1999).
• Azuma, Ronald T., Bruce R. Hoff, Howard E. Neely III, Ronald Sarfaty, Michael J. Daily, Gary Bishop, Vern Chi, Greg Welch, Ulrich Neumann, Suya You, Rich Nichols, and Jim Cannon. Making Augmented Reality Work Outdoors Requires Hybrid Tracking.  Proc. of First Int'l Workshop on Augmented Reality (San Francisco, 1 Nov. 1998), pp. 219-224.
• Azuma, Ronald T.  A Survey of Augmented Reality.  Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments 6, 4 (August 1997), pp. 355 - 385.  Earlier version appeared in Course Notes #9: Developing Advanced Virtual Reality Applications, ACM SIGGRAPH '95 (Los Angeles, 6-11 August 1995), 20-1 to 20-38.
• Azuma, Ronald T.  Course notes on "Registration" and "Correcting for Dynamic Error" from Course Notes #30: Making Direct Manipulation Work in Virtual Reality.  ACM SIGGRAPH '97 (Los Angeles, 3-8 Aug. 1997).
• Azuma, Ronald, Mike Daily, and Jimmy Krozel.  Advanced Human-Computer Interfaces for Air Traffic Management and Simulation.  Proc. of 1996 AIAA Flight Simulation Technologies Conference (San Diego, CA, 29-31 July 1996), pp. 656-666.  Awarded Best Paper of conference.
• Daily, Mike, Ronald Azuma, Pete Tinker, Kevin Martin, and Cheryl Hein.  Soldier System Effectiveness Measurement System Virtual Environments Study.  Hughes Studies and Analysis Technical Report (July 1996).
• Tinker, Pete, Ronald Azuma, Cheryl Hein, and Mike Daily.  Driving Simulation for Crash Avoidance Warning Evaluation.  Proc. of 29th ISATA Dedicated Conference on Simulation, Diagnosis and Virtual Reality.  (Florence, Italy, 3-6 June 1996), pp. 367-374.
• Azuma, Ronald and Gary Bishop.  A Frequency-Domain Analysis of Head-Motion Prediction.  Proc. of ACM SIGGRAPH '95 (Los Angeles, 6-11 August 1995). Computer Graphics, Annual Conference Series, 1995, 401-408.
• Dissertation: Predictive Tracking for Augmented Reality.  UNC Chapel Hill Dept. of Computer Science technical report TR95-008 (February 1995), 262 pages.
• Azuma, Ronald and Gary Bishop.  Improving Static and Dynamic Registration in an Optical See-Through HMD.  Proc. of ACM SIGGRAPH '94 (Orlando, FL, 24-29 July 1994), Computer Graphics, Annual Conference Series, 1994, 197-204 + CD-ROM appendix
• Azuma, Ronald.  Tracking Requirements for Augmented Reality.  Communications of the ACM 36, 7 (July 1993), 50-51.
• Ward, Mark, Ronald Azuma, Robert Bennett, Stefan Gottschalk, and Henry Fuchs.  A Demonstrated Optical Tracker With Scalable Work Area for Head-Mounted Display Systems.  Proc. of 1992 Symp. on Interactive 3D Graphics (Cambridge, MA, 29 March - 1 April 1992(, pp. 43-52.
• Azuma, Ronald and Mark Ward.  Space-Resection by Collinearity: Mathematics Behind the Optical Ceiling Head-Tracker.  UNC Chapel Hill Deptartment of Computer Science technical report TR 91-048 (November 1991), 23 pages.
• Wang, Jih-Fang, Ronald Azuma, Gary Bishop, Vern Chi, John Eyles, and Henry Fuchs.  Tracking a Head-Mounted Display in a Room-Sized Environment with Head-Mounted Cameras.  SPIE Proceedings Vol. 1290 Helmet-Mounted Displays II (Orlando, FL, 19-20 April 1990), pp. 47-57.

• US 6,408,251. Calibrating a Magnetic Compass With an Angular Rate Gyroscope and a Global Positioning Receiver.  Ronald Azuma. Issued June 18, 2002
• US 6,577,976. Real-Time Sensor Autocalibration for a Multi-Sensor Inertial Tracking System.  Bruce Hoff, Ronald Azuma, Issued June 10, 2003
• US 7,002,551. An Optical See-Through Augmented Reality Modified-Scale Display.  Ronald Azuma, Ron Sarfaty.  Issued Feb. 21, 2006
• US 7,120,875. Augmented Reality Hybrid Tracking System with Fiducial-Based Heading Correction.  Michael Daily, Ronald Azuma, Howard Neely III, Gerald Isdale.  Issued Oct. 10, 2006
• US 7,131,060. System and Method for Automatic Placement of Labels for Interactive Graphics Applications.  Ronald Azuma. Issued Oct. 31, 2006
• US 7,315,241. Enhanced Perception Lighting.  Mike Daily, Ron Azuma, Chris Furmanski.  Issued Jan. 1, 2008