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Department of Computer Science University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC 27514 Tel: (919) 962-1779 burns@cs.unc.edu http://www.cs.unc.edu/~burns |
Northampton Plaza Apartments #117 600 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Chapel Hill, NC 27514 Tel: (919) 968-4329 Born 2 September 1979; Woodbury, NJ |
Ph.D. program, University of North Carolina, Computer Science, expected completion in 2006,
Frederick P. Brooks, advisor.
M.S., University of North Carolina, Computer Science, 2004.
B.S. with highest honors, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Electrical and
Computer Engineering, 2002. Tied for first in class.
The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Department of Computer Science
Co-teacher (with Henry Fuchs), Virtual Worlds, 2005
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
Laboratory Assistant, Virtual Reality Teaching Laboratory, 2002
Researcher, University of North Carolina, NC, 2002-Present (Student team leader, May - October 2005)
Engage in novel research in the area of effective virtual environments
Work on projects funded by national funding agencies
Intern, NASA, Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, May - August 2004
Performed a user study to explore the mechanisms of human perception of virtual environment system latency
Intern, VR Lab, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington,
D.C., May - August 2003
Designed systems for multi-modal interaction in augmented reality systems
Intern, Distributed Visualization Systems Group, Sandia
National Laboratories, CA, June - August 2002
Aided in the design of an interactive virtual environment for national security applications
Intern, Embedded Reasoning Institute, Sandia National Laboratories, CA, May - August
2001
Designed system programs to network computers
Wrote drivers for sensors attached to wearable computer
Work resulted in a poster submitted to Supercomputing 2001 conference
Intern, System Administration Group, Lockheed Martin NE&SS, NJ, May - August 2000
Designed a database management system for software archiving
Designed a web site to act as the interface for the database
Honorable Mention in best paper competition for best paper at IEEE VR 2005 (2005)
Honorable Mention in NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Competition (2002, 2004)
Dean's List Every Semester as an Undergraduate
Inducted into Golden Key National Honor Society (2001)
Elected as Vice-President of Rutgers University Chapter of Eta Kappa Nu (2001)
Inducted into Phi Eta Sigma (1999)
Accepted into Rutgers School of Engineering Honors Program (1998)
Edward J. Bloustein Distinguished Scholar (1998)
Awarded Rutgers University Presidential Scholarship (1998)
Awarded Rutgers University Dean's Merit Scholarship (1998)
Graduated High School Summa Cum Laude, ranked 1 out of 625 students (1998)
University of North Carolina, Department of Computer Science Teaching Tune-up Committee, 2004 - Present
Rutgers University Council of Presidents, 2001-2002
Rutgers University Senate, 2000-2001
Rutgers University Engineering Governing Council, 1999-2002
President, 2001-2002
Senator, 2000-2002
Computers - Proficient with Windows, Unix, Linux, VRML, OpenGL, VTK, Java, C++, C, Fortran, Pascal, Various Assembly Languages, Perl, HTML, VHDL, Matlab
Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 1999-2002
Member, Society of Automotive Engineers, 1998
Member, Jujitsu Club (Rutgers University), 1998-2000
Burns, E., Razzaque, S., Whitton, M.C., McCallus, M.R., Panter, A.T., and Brooks, F.P. (2006) The Hand is More Easily Fooled than the Eye: Users are more sensitive to visual interpenetration than to visual-proprioceptive discrepancy. Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments (in press).
Adelstein, B.D., Burns, E.M., Ellis, S.R., and Hill, M.I. (2005) Latency Discrimination Mechanisms in Virtual Environments: Velocity and Displacement Error Factors. Proceedings, 49th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, September 2005.
Burns, E., Razzaque, S., Whitton, M.C., McCallus, M.R., Panter, A.T., and Brooks, F.P. (2005) The Hand is Slower than the Eye: A quantitative exploration of visual dominance over proprioception. Proceedings of IEEE Virtual Reality 2005, (Bonn, Germany, March 2005), IEEE Computer Society.
Kohli, L, Burns, E., Miller, D., and Fuchs, H. (2005) Combining Passive Haptics with Redirected Walking. Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Reality and Teleexistence 2005, (Christchurch, New Zealand, December 2005). (To appear)
Burns, E. and Razzaque, S. (2003) “Avatar Redirection: An Exploration of Sensory Conflict.” Presence-Connect Online Journal.
Armstrong, R., Berry, N., Kyker, R., Pancerella, C., Yang, C., Moor, K., Wolfe, A., Burns, E., Lambert, B., Elliot, S., Fan, T., Kershaw, C., and Davis, H. (2001). “General Framework for Wireless Smart Distributed Sensors”, Supercomputing 2001 Conference, Denver. (poster)