Mario Romero Vega

Mario Romero is an Associate Professor in  Visualization at the Department of Computational Science and Technology (CST) at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at  KTH. He is also the national technical manager and local node coordinator of the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet) National Research Infrastructure in Visualization InfraVis. He is a Fulbright Scholar from Ecuador and a graduate of Georgia Tech (PhD Computer Science, 2009), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Master Computer Science, 2001), and Universidad San Francisco de Quito (BS Industrial Engineering and BS Construction Engineering , 1996). He is also a technical co-founder of  BrailleTouch , a smartphone keyboard for blind users, and  Anymaker, a tablet application for sketching in 3D. Dr. Romero's research centers in Human-Computer Interaction, Visualization, and Ubiquitous and Accessible Computing. For CV details, please visit:http://www.linkedin.com/in/marioromero. Find Mario's zoom room here:https://kth-se.zoom.us/my/visualmario. Find time to meet in my calendar.

Projects and Activities (Updated January 14, 2022):

	DH2413 Open House	Our Advanced Graphics and Interaction students present their augmented and mixed reality projects, December 17, 2021.
	IVA100 2021	TheRoyal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) has selected our projectVisBaC to the List of100 research2business projects with a focus on sustainable crisis preparedness. May 11, 2021.
	KTH EECS Profile Pages	KTH EECS Communication 3-minute video where I chat about how toimprove your profile pages. May 4, 2021.
	Eurographics 2021	Eurographics 2021Education TrackSession 1 Chair andSession 3 panelist on May 6, 2021.
	Final projects Information Visualization	The students of Information Visualization present their 9 final group projects. Please, join me in congratulating their effort by interacting with their work. March 13, 2021.
	A/RporTWIN	FIWARE powered AR visualization tools created for airport operations.In the News: 2021-03-17.
	DH2321 Information Visualization	Leading innovative projects as part of the first online Information Visualization IVIS21 course at KTH between January and March 2021.
	AGI20 Digital Open House	Our Advanced Graphics and Interaction students present their augmented and mixed reality projects, December 16, 2020.
	Live Webinar	Fluid Dynamics for understanding aerosol transport with relevance to respiratory disorders and treatment; a research-driven education live webinar. Nov 11-12, 2021.
	KTH Intra	In the news 2020-06-11: how to create an effective webpage for researchers at KTH.
	DDS EEC	Energy Effective Care aims to improve hospital care with IoT sensing, machine learning and visualization. Funding:ViableCities .In the news 2020-06-26.
	VisBac	Visualizing airborne bacteria in operating rooms using computational fluid dynamics in virtual reality. Funding:FORMAS .In the news 2020-03-16.
	Homo Colossus	From Homo Sapiens to Homo Colossus: Visualizing our energy footprint. Funding:FORMAS .In the news 2020-01-02 .
	Eurographics 2020	Chair of theEducation track at Eurographics 2020. May 2020.
	Visit to Paris 8	Thanks to a research exchange grant from theFrench-Swede Instute I visited Paris 8, Fall 2019.
	Visualization Retreat	We planned the next year's educational, research, funding, and administrative activities atKTH Visualization Group.
	PCAT	Prostate Cancer Analysis Tool in collaboration withKarolinska Institutet Department of Urology andJanssen Sweden.
	VRTS2017	I am the International Publicity Chair at the 2017 Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology.
	H2020Viz	Visualization of the funded projects in the European Research CouncilERC -Horizon 2020. Partner:Vinnova.
	IVIS17 CAwards	The students inInformation Visualization 2017participate in theC-Awards with 9 projects.
	Mixed Reality Stockholm	BFUFawarded 1.7M Kr toContext-Aware Augmented Reality Experiences In and Beyond the Museum.To press release.
	Docent Lecture	What can Human-Centered Visualization do for you?
	AGI16 Comic Con Stockholm	My students ofAdvanced Graphics and Interaction present their projects atComic Con Gamex Stockholm.
	C-Awards 2016	My students won six out of eight total categories at theC-Awards 2016. Congratulations!
	Mixed Reality	Invited Lecture on mixed-reality whole-body interactions for healthy living.
	Forma i Luften @MegaMind	Exhibit atTekniska Museet inviting people to shape the air in front of them and see, hear and feel the sculpture.
	Tidebanan	Exhibit atSpårvägsmuseet interactively visualizing the history of the city's metro system.To working project.
	Anymaker 3D	A KTH master thesis turned into a startup for 3D finger sketching on iPads sponsored by KTH'sStudent Inc.

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Areas of interest:

#informationtechnology, #IT, #visualization, #informationvisualization, #datavisualization, #computergraphics, #hci, #human-computer interaction, #vr, #ar, #xr, #virtualreality, #augmentedreality, #mixedreality, #computervision, #data, #highereducation, #ubicomp, #education, #research, #science, #eng, #engineering, #design, #evaluation, #ux , #userstudies, #innovation, #mediatechnology, #graphics, #interaction, #interactiondesign, #ui, #uxdesign, #dataanalytics #research2business.