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David Zielinski
Sr AR/VR Technology Specialist
Art, Art History & Visual Studies
djzielin@duke.edu
Box 104100, 300 Fuller Street, Durham, NC 27708
Box 104100, 300 Fuller Street, Durham, NC 27708
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His current research interests include VR/AR musical instruments and Social VR. He has additional interests in audio synthesis, audio signal processing, and physical / embedded computing.
Selected Grants
A Virtual Sense of Place - African American Urbanism
Research
IT Team ·
Awarded by Johnson C. Smith University ·
2021 - 2024
The Sandcastle Workflow: A Malleable System for Visualizing Pre-modern Maps and Views
Research
Software Engineer ·
Awarded by National Endowment for the Humanities ·
2020 - 2023
Virtual and Augmented Reality for Digital Humanities Institute (VARDHI)
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Speaker ·
Awarded by National Endowment for the Humanities ·
2017 - 2020
Design, Prototyping and Evaluation of Next Generation Public Safety User Interfaces
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Research Engineer ·
Awarded by National Institute of Standards and Technology ·
2018 - 2019
Field Deployable Optical Coherence Tomography for Triage of Ocular Trauma
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Associate in Research ·
Awarded by United States Army Medical Research and Materiel Command ·
2012 - 2016