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David Zielinski

AR/VR Technology Specialist
Computational Media, Arts & Cultures
Box 104100, 300 Fuller Street, Durham, NC 27708
Box 104100, 300 Fuller Street, Durham, NC 27708

Research Interests


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

ResearchIT Team · Awarded by Johnson C. Smith University · 2021 - 2024

The Sandcastle Workflow: A Malleable System for Visualizing Pre-modern Maps and Views

ResearchSoftware Engineer · Awarded by National Endowment for the Humanities · 2020 - 2023

Virtual and Augmented Reality for Digital Humanities Institute (VARDHI)

ConferenceSpeaker · Awarded by National Endowment for the Humanities · 2017 - 2020

Design, Prototyping and Evaluation of Next Generation Public Safety User Interfaces

ResearchResearch Engineer · Awarded by National Institute of Standards and Technology · 2018 - 2019

Field Deployable Optical Coherence Tomography for Triage of Ocular Trauma

ResearchAssociate in Research · Awarded by United States Army Medical Research and Materiel Command · 2012 - 2016