The CAVE People	VT CAVE
Ronald D. Kriz John Kelso Lance Arsenault Kevin Kurry Aaron Mosby Randy Levansalor Debby Hix Chad Wingrave Greg Edwards Sanjiv Parikh Mark Tong Aamir Wyne

  Parikh
 

Research Associate	Director VT C.A.V.E.
	Dr. Ronald D. Kriz is an Associate Professor in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech. He received the Ph.D. and M.S. degrees from Virginia Tech in 1976 and 1979 (Engineering Science and Mechanics) and B.S. degree from California Polytechnic State University in 1973 (Aeronautical Engineering). He has published over 50 technical papers in referred journals and conference proceedings in the area of mechanics and material science and engineering. Prior to coming to Virginia Tech in 1990 he was active in Materials Research Engineering research at NIST for ten years. During that time, he used super computers to simulate the physics of stress wave propagation in anisotropic media. Several patents resulted from these studies that used visual data analysis tools to make these discoveries. For more information go to Dr. Kriz's Bio Web Page
John Kelso

Research Associate	Research Associate
	Having a B.S. in Mathematical Science from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and a M.S. in Computer Science from George Washington University John is more then in his environment here at the C.A.V.E. Johns objective here at the C.A.V.E. is to make the C.A.V.E. accessible to anyone who wishes.  Especially helping people who through the use of the C.A.V.E. can better their knowledge of their field of study. Examples are the Entomology Dept., Biochemistry (David Bevan) and Interior Design (Joan Mclain-Kark) and many more. On a softer note John enjoys hiking, camping, picnicking and any other outdoor activity. Contra dancing, hot & spicy vegetarian cooking and reruns of Wallace & Gromit also rank high on John's to-do list. Visit Johns Unofficial home page here , more detailed information about John's work at the C.A.V.E. here.
John Kelso

Research Associate  Professor	Research Associate Professor
	Lance now lives in Blacksburg, just moving here. He is originally from Taunton Massachusetts. Lance's big project at the moment is the new motion-base platform to be used for the virtual crane DURIP project. The motion-base platform will be placed in the C.A.V.E. when the C.A.V.E. is re-settled in its new building beside the library.
Lance Arsenault

Summer Intern	Intern/Page Developer
	Aaron Mosby is a student at  Auburn High as well as a student at  New River Community College .  Taking three classes while attending Auburn High and spending the rest of the day taking courses at New River earning a Associates degree specialiazing in Graphics design/Web development.  After two years Aaron hopes to transfer to Virginia Tech and earn a four year in Computer Science.  Working at the  C.A.V.E.  this summer through the High school/High tech progrom, Aaron will be completing many projects including this page.
Aaron W. Mosby

G.R.A. C.S.	Gradutate Research Assistant C.S.
	Randy Levensalor BS in CS Tech.  Randy is currently Enrolled in Maseters program at VT.  Being involced with research with eye-tracker is one of Randy's duties here at the CAVE.  Randy also has  interest gesture recognition,.  and is the Treasurer of CAVE-SLUGS
Randy Levansalor

Professor	Research Faculty
	As a Computer Science faculty member at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg,Virginia, Dr. Deborah (Debby) Hix is a founder and principal investigator of the Virginia Tech Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Project.  Started in 1979, it is one of the pioneering projects in HCI in the world, and is concerned with how to achieve quality user interfaces, through development of specialized methodologies, techniques, and tools for producing the user interface.  Most recently, Hix has been extending her two decades of HCI work into VE usability, and has collaborated for several years on this topic with the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington DC. Hix has done extensive consulting and training with a variety of commercial and government organizations in the area of user interface development for nearly 20 years.  She is co-author of a popular book entitled "Developing User Interfaces:  Ensuring Usability through Product and Process", that has been used world-wide by both  practitioners and university students.
Debby Hix C.S.

G.R.A. C.S.	Graduate Research Assistant C.S.
	Chads work now is focused on JIVE. . JIVE seeks to meld several issues at the heart of CAD, Simulation and Modeling Tools (SMT) and Virtual Environments. CAD applications have proven to be the best methods of storing, creating and representing engineering data and plots while Simulation tools help solve complex, usually unintelligible systems through recreation. Virtual Environments, such as the CAVE, I-Desk and more commonly the desktop NT system, have an unparalleled ability to present vast amounts of data in a format most natural to human cognition, three-dimensional spaces. JIVE will be a tool that combines the strength of all three. It will have the CAD powers of creation and representation, the complexity representation and programmability needed by Simulation and Modeling Tools and the display and interaction of Virtual Environments. For more information on JIVE consult this page ( JIVE ) GTA in Computer Science and come Fall Bachelars in Computer Science at Virginia Tech Co-Founder of Conquest Productions, Chad's hometown is Chadds Ford, PA.
Chad Wingrave

G.R.A. I.S.E.	Graduate Research Assistant I.S.E.
	Greg is the holder of BASC in Systems Design Engineering and is currently enrolled as a Masters Student within the Human Factors E ngineering Option of the Industrial and Systems Engineering Dept at VT. His academic interets lie in the human factors and usability of virtual environments(VE's) and past research has focused on navigational issues in VE's as well as virtual presence.  As a newly appointed part-time research assistant at the CAVE, he is working on the expansion of the Collaborative Console( Started bye Keven Kurry and Kent Swatrz). When not immersed in other worlds, Greg likes to enjoy the outdoors and sports, especially mountain biking, running, wieght training, playing squash and hacking around the golf course.
Greg Edwards

G.R.A. C.S	Graduate Research Assistant C.S.
	No information as of yet
Fernando das Neves

G.R.A. E.S.M.	Graduate Research Assistant E.S.M.
	Sanjiv is currently a Ph.d student earning a Biomedical PhD. His reseaserch topic is smart devices in virtual enivorments, in particular a force feedback glove that will allow physical interaction with virtual objects in a virtual enviroment. Sanjiv graduated from Northern Virginia Community College(NOVA) in 1993 with a Associates Degree in Electrical Engineering. He then transfered to Virginia Tech and completed a Bachelor's in fall of 1995 in Biomedical Engineering option in the Engineering Science and Mechanics(ESM) Dept. He just finished earning  a Master's degree in ESM in NonDestructive Evaluation of Materials in summer of 98, his thesis topic was writing a computer algorithm that generated ultrasonic reflections within a model of a solid steel bridge-plan. His goal is to setup his own consulting firm dealing with Biomedical Virtual Reality applications. Currently he is working on the NSF CRCD project.
Sanjiv Parikh

G.R.A. E.S.M.	Summer Intern
	Working here at the C.A.V.E. this summer Mark will be assisting Chad in implemting JIVE UML design and other forms of OOP. The large goal for JIVE is for it to soon become a standard virtual enivorment for industry research and entertaninment. Marks goals include working in the computer science field or a technology field with a over all goal of becoming a intrepreneur.  Mark recently graduated from  Radford High School and will be attending Standford University in the fall.
Mark Tong

G.R.A. E.S.M.	Summer Intern
	Aamir just as Mark will be working with Chad this summer implemting JIVE UML design and other forms of OOP.
Aamir Wyne