Creative Technologies

Kim Grinfeder and Student

Creative Technologies

About the Creative Technologies Team at IDSC

Creative Technologies explores a world of expressive possibilities using code and design to shape the world. This interdisciplinary field coalesces computing with other disciplines centering around the intersection of computing and research design in an interdisciplinary context.

At IDSC, the team engages in the following areas of creative technologies:

Immersive Media
Meaningful use of immersive technologies to leverage the transformative power of VR and AR in education, training, and simulation to healthcare and storytelling,

Creativity, Machine Learning, and AI
Explores how this foundational technology of the 21st century can be used in the arts, humanities, communication, and social sciences.

Human-Computer Interaction
Explores how emerging technologies affect our behaviors and impacts products, services, and culture.

Kim Grinfeder

Kim GrinfederLinkedIn iconwebsite icon
Director, Creative Technologies
Department Chair and Associate Professor, Interactive Media
School of Communication
grinfeder@miami.edu | 305.284.6253

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Faculty

Ching-Hua Chuan
Ching-Hua Chuan, PhD
Research Associate Professor
Anna Carolina Muller Queiroz
Anna Queiroz, PhD
Associate Professor
Thomas-Merrick
Thomas C. Merrick Sr.
Project Manager, XR Initiatives Adjunct Professor

Staff and Students

Nicolas Alberti
Nicolas Alberti
Systems Administrator

Bryson Rudolph
Bryson Rudolph
Senior Research Software Engineer

Ayaan Abdulla
Ayaan Abdulla
XR Software Developer
Computer Science + Psychology

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Oscar Arana
XR Software Developer
Computer Science

Gaelle Charlet
Gaelle Charlet
Software Developer
Computer Science + Interactive Media

Zubaer Chowdhury
Zubaer Rahman Chowdhury
XR Software Developer
Computer Science/Mathematics

Sidney Cocimano
Sidney Cocimano
UX/UI Designer
Computer Science

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Uyen Dang
XR Software Developer
Computer Science

Ashay Dave
Ashay Dave
XR Software Developer
M.S. Music Engineering Technology

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Joao Ribeiro

Kumani Riley
Kumani Riley
UX Specialist + Software Developer
Computer Science + Interactive Media

Rajvi Shah
Rajvi Shah
Urban Data Analyst
B.S. Geography and Sustainable Development

Natalia Jimenez Sierra
Natalia Jimenez Sierra
UX Designer + Software Developer

Eric Soriano
Erik Soriano
UX Designer
MFA Interactive Media—UI/UX

Cassandra Swilley
Cassandra Swilley
3D Artist

Diep Vu
Diep Vu
XR Software Developer
Computer Science

Guohaonan Zhang
Guohaonan Zhang
PhD Candidate

Alumni

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Ry Black
Jr. Software Developer

Maria Cadena
Maria Cadena
VR Architect

Andrea Lustgarten
Andrea Fischbach
UI Designer

Whitaker Ellsworth Redgate
Whit Redgrate | Software
Developer + Point Cloud Wrangler