Scholars@Duke
Maria Gorlatova

Maria Gorlatova

Sternberg Family Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Pierre R. Lamond Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Office hours Mondays 9-11 AM, or by appointment  

Research Interests

Dr. Gorlatova's lab works on safe and robust augmented reality (AR), human-centered spatial AI, and the scientific and computer systems foundations of next-generation extended reality (XR) and immersive AI. Specific research directions include robust environmental and user-state awareness, runtime assessment and monitoring, adaptive operation in changing real-world conditions, edge AI, embedded sensing, wireless communications, and real-time system evaluation, as well as applications of spatial AI and XR in healthcare and human-robot collaboration (HRC). 

Selected Grants

NSF AI Institute for Edge Computing and Systems (Athena)

ResearchInvestigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2021 - 2031

HCC: Foundations of Automated Evaluation and Monitoring of AR Guidance in Pervasive AR and Human-Robot Collaboration (HRC) Applications

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2026 - 2030

DoD Center of Excellence in Advanced Computing and Software (COE-ACS)

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by Georgia State University · 2023 - 2028

Robust Object Detection for Mobile Augmented Reality in the Wild

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2023 - 2027

Collaborative Research: CSR: Medium: Adaptive Environmental Awareness for Collaborative Augmented Reality

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2023 - 2027

PARTNER: Neuro-Inspired AI for the Edge at UTSA (NAIAD)

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by The University of Texas at San Antonio · 2023 - 2027

CAREER: Foundations of IoT-supported mobile augmented reality

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2021 - 2027

Runtime Identification of Detrimental Augmented Reality (AR) Experiences through AR-specific Quality of Experience (QoE) Modeling and Monitoring

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency · 2023 - 2026

CNS Core: Small: Collaborative Research: Towards Intelligent Multi-User Augmented Reality with Edge Computing

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2019 - 2023

CC*Integration: Archipelago: Linking Researchers on-campuses and in the Cloud through SDN-Enabled Microsegmentation

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2019 - 2022

CSF: Small: Collaborative Research: Multi-tier Service Architecture in IoT-Edge-Cloud-Paradigms

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2018 - 2021

Dispersed Computing

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Princeton University · 2018 - 2019