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STAFF

Director- LAVA, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa;
Director Emeritus- Electronic Visualization Lab,
University of Illinois at Chicago

Senior Software Engineer

Software Engineer

Assistant Professor, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Senior Operations Manager

Clyde Theriot

Certified good boy

GRADUATE RESEARCH ASSISTANTS 

Research Assistant / PhD Student, Computer Science

2024-Present

Research Assistant / MS Student, Computer Science

2024-Present

Research Assistant / MS Student, Computer Science

2025-Present

UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH ASSISTANTS 

National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduate Student, Computer Science, Computer Animation, Art

2023-Present

National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduate Student, Computer Science

2025-Present

National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduate Student, Computer Science

2025-Present

National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduate Student, Computer Science, Political Science

2026-Present

ALUMNI

National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduate Student, Academy for Creative Media

Andrew Guagliardo

2015-2017

Research Assistant / MS Student, Electrical Engineering
Former National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduate Student

Noel Kawano

2014-2017

Research Assistant / MS Student, Computer Science

Eric Wu

2014-2017

Research Assistant / MS Student, Electrical Engineering
Former National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduate Student

Ken Uchida

2016

University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil
CAPES Foundation, Ministry of Education of Brazil

Mauricio Farina

2016

University of Kentucky at Lexignton (UKY)
Centro Federal de Educacao Tecnologica Celso Suckow da Fonseca (CEFET-RJ), Brazil
CAPES Foundation, Ministry of Education of Brazil

Thiago Ferreira

2016

National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduate Student, Computer Science

David Wang

2014-2016

National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduate Student, Computer Science

Nicole Hanabusa

2015-2016

Postdoctoral Fellow, LAVA, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Argonne Scholar, Argonne National Laboratory
[Department of Human-Centered Computing, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)]

Khairi Reda

2014-2015

Indiana University-Purdue University

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, University of Sao Paulo, CAPES Foundation, Ministry of Education of Brazil

Daniel de Oliveira Caires

2015

University of Indianapolis, Federal University of Bahia, CAPES Foundation, Ministry of Education of Brazil

Vitor Araujo Rabelo

2015

City University of New York, Baruch College, CAPES Foundation, Ministry of Education of Brazil

Matheus Domingos de Oliveira

2015

National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduate Student, Computer Science

Spencer Luther

2015

National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduate Student, Computer Science

Nicholas Izawa

2015

Volunteer
Undergraduate Student, Computer Science

Adam Laimana

2015

National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduate Student, Computer Science

Kavika Tavui

2015

Visiting Undergraduate Research Student – University of São Paulo

Fabio Iamaguti Takahashi

2014

Visiting Undergraduate Research Student – Native Hawaiian Science & Engineering Mentorship Program

Hoaliku O’Connell

2014

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