Mark Billinghurst is a Professor and Director of the Australian Research Centre for Interactive and Virtual Environments at Adelaide University in Adelaide, Australia, and a Professor at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute at the University of Auckland in Auckland, New Zealand. He earned a PhD in 2002 from the University of Washington and researches innovative computer interfaces that explore how virtual and real worlds can be merged, publishing over 900 papers in topics such as wearable computing, AR/VR, digital health, and mobile interfaces.

 

Prior to joining the University of South Australia he was Director of the HIT Lab NZ at the University of Canterbury and he has previously worked at British Telecom, Nokia, Google and the MIT Media Laboratory. He has won many awards for his research including the IEEE VR/VGTC Technical Achievement Award (2013), the IEEE ISMAR Career Impact Award (2019), and the IEEE VR/VGTC Career Award (2019), and in 2022 he was inducted into the inaugural class of the IEEE VGTC VR Academy. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.

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