Carolina Cruz-Neira

Carolina Cruz-Neira is a Spanish-Venezuelan-American computer scientist, researcher, designer, educator, and a pioneer of virtual reality (VR). She is known for inventing the cave automatic virtual environment (CAVE). She is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a member of the [https://tc.computer.org/vgtc/ IEEE VGTC] Virtual Reality Academy, a XR Hall of Fame member, a Modeling & Simulation Hall of Fame member, and a Spark Star of the Museum of Discovery. Currently, she is the Agere Chair Professor at the University of Central Florida (UCF).

Her research interest are real-time visualization software frameworks, virtual environments, and applications in a broad range of disciplines. She is also an artist and dance producer having staged several virtual reality and immersive live dance performances as well as museum interactive installations.

Cruz-Neira was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2018 for contributions to immersive visualization and virtual reality. Provided by Wikipedia