Paper award: IEEE Computer Society 2025 IEEE TVCG VR & AR Best Paper Award
To: S. Eom, S. Kim, J. Jackson, D. Sykes, S. Rahimpour, and M. Gorlatova, for paper: "Augmented Reality-based Contextual Guidance through Surgical Tool Tracking in Neurosurgery." In IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 31, No. 5, May 2025. Listing of all 2025 Best Paper Awards.
Professor Gorlatova award: Bass Chair, 2026 - University-wide recognition of excellence in research and undergraduate teaching.
Demo award: ACM HotMobile Best Demo Award, 2026
To: H. Ye, T. Hu, V. Kasabrukhau, S. Khydyr, and M. Gorlatova, for demo: "Catch Smart Glasses If You Scan: Robot-Controlled vs. UI-Guided". In Proc. ACM HotMobile 2026.
Paper award: IEEE ISMAR Best Paper Award, 2025
To: Y. Xiu and M. Gorlatova, for paper: Detecting Visual Information Manipulation Attacks in Augmented Reality: A Multimodal Semantic Reasoning Approach. In IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2025, with a presentation at IEEE ISMAR in October 2025.
Paper award: IEEE Universal Augmented Interaction Workshop Best Paper Award, 2025
To: Y. Xiu, J. Chilukuri, S. Sen, and M. Gorlatova, for paper: Say It, See It: A Systematic Evaluation on Speech-Based 3D Content Generation Methods in Augmented Reality. In Proc. IEEE Universal Augmented Interaction (UNAI) Workshop (co-located with IEEE ISMAR), October 2025
Professor Gorlatova award: DARPA Director's Fellowship Award, 2025 - covered by Pratt School of Engineering.
PhD student award: IEEE ISMAR Doctoral Consortium Best Presentation, 2025
To: Yanming Xiu
PhD student award: Duke ECE Research Retreat Best Presentation Runner-up, 2025
To: Yanming Xiu
PhD student award: IEEE ISMAR Doctoral Consortium Best Presentation Runner-up, 2024
To: Zhehan Qu
PhD student award: NSF AI Spring School Applied AI Poster Award, 2024
To: Zhehan Qu
Professor Gorlatova service award: Distinguished TPC Member, ACM MobiCom (4 out of 114 recognized), 2024
Paper award: ACM/IEEE IPSN Best Research Artifact Runner-up Award, 2024
To: L. Duan, Y. Chen, Z. Qu, M. McGrath, E. Ehmke, M. Gorlatova, for paper: BiGuide: A Bi-Level Data Acquisition Guidance for Object Detection on Mobile Devices, in Proc. ACM/IEEE IPSN, Hong Kong, China, May 2024. (21.5% acceptance rate).
Professor Gorlatova award: DARPA Young Faculty Award, 2023 [ Pratt news article ]
Professor Gorlatova award: Cisco Research Award, 2023
Paper award: ACM ImmerCom Best Paper Award, 2023
To: T. Scargill, M. Hadziahmetovic, and M. Gorlatova, for paper: Invisible Textures: Comparing Machine and Human Perception of Environment Texture for Augmented Reality, in Proc. ACM ImmerCom (co-located with ACM MobiCom), Madrid, Spain, Oct. 2023.
Professor Gorlatova award: IBM Faculty Award, 2023
PhD student award: EECS Rising Star, 2023
To: Ying Chen
PhD student award: Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) Rising Star, 2023
To: Ying Chen
PhD student award: Best Poster Runner-Up Award, NSF AI ATHENA Institute Annual Review, 2023
To: Lin Duan
Paper award: ACM UbiComp 2022 Best Poster Award [ More information ]
To: T. Scargill, A. Dabrowski, A. Xu, and M. Gorlatova, for poster: IoT-Enabled Environment Illuminance Optimization for Augmented Reality, in Proc. ACM UbiComp, Cambridge, UK, Sept. 2022.
Professor Gorlatova award: Facebook Research Award, 2021 [ Award information: Facebook ]
Professor Gorlatova award: NSF CAREER Award, 2021 [ Award information: NSF ] [ Pratt news article about the award ]
Professor Gorlatova award: Duke University Pratt School of Engineering Nortel Networks Professorship, 2020 – 2025
Paper award: IEEE/ACM IPSN Best Research Artifact Award, 2020 [ More information ]
To: Z. Liu, G. Lan, J. Stojkovic, Y. Zhang, C. Joe-Wong, M. Gorlatova, for paper: CollabAR: Edge-assisted Collaborative Image Recognition for Mobile Augmented Reality, in Proc. ACM/IEEE IPSN, 2020 (21.7% acceptance rate)
Professor Gorlatova award: IBM Faculty Award, 2020
Professor Gorlatova award: National Academy of Engineering’s US Frontiers of Engineering (US FOE) Symposium Invitation, 2020
Professor Gorlatova award: N2 Women Rising Star in Networking and Communications, 2019 [ More information ]
Professor Gorlatova awards prior to the 2028 establishment of the Duke I3T Lab: available here