About me

I am a Principal Researcher in the EPIC (Extended Perception Interaction and Cognition) team at Microsoft Research.

My research interests include Augmented Reality (AR)/Virtual Reality (VR), Haptics, interactive projection mapping, and computer vision for human-computer interaction.  In particular, I’m interested in the way that people will work and live using immersive technologies and their effects on social behavior, productivity, and using digital non-physical space to level the plane field for people with physical limitations.

I am also the Specialty Chief Editor of Frontiers in Virtual Reality for the area of Haptics and an Assoc. Editor of IEEE Computer Graphics and Application (CG&A). 

Before joining Microsoft Research obtained my Ph.D. at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and has founded a couple of companies in the area of computer graphics, including a successful drawing and photo editing application (Photon-Paint ) and developing the world’s first time-of-flight video camera which was a basis for the HoloLens depth camera.

I am a senior member of Assoc. for Computing Machines (ACM).

For more of my bio, you can look at my LinkedIn page: LinkedIn:                     https://www.linkedin.com/in/eyalofek

This page was last edited on Feb. 2022.