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 was the Specialty Chief Editor of Frontiers in Virtual Reality for the area of Haptics and an Assoc between 2020 and 2022 and an 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 Nov. 2022.