Maya Georgieva

Keynote Speaker

XR and Ethics: Living in a World of Abundant Experiences

Maya Georgieva is a futurist and educational strategist. Her work on the future of learning is featured in education and industry forums and publications across the globe. As the Director of Education Futures and XReality Center at the New School, Maya works to engage the community and provide strategic leadership in creating an institutional culture and capacity for innovative design with emerging technologies, XR and AI. Her work has been featured at SXSW, MIT Media Lab, Fulbright and she is presently the Innovator In Residence at ShapingEDU, ASU. She is the co-author of the EDUCAUSE-ELI Transforming Higher Education Immersive Learning Series and has authored white papers and research studies on the future of Higher Education and Immersive Learning in EDUCAUSE Review, The Chronicle of Higher Education, EdTech Magazine, EdSurge, and others. Maya is a member of the EDUCAUSE Horizon Report Expert Panel for Higher Education. She is a recipient of the Campus Technologies Education Futurist Award for her work at New York University.

Maya is also the co-founder of Digital Bodies, an award-winning website focusing on VR/AR/MR, and their impact on media and society. She has worked with Google, HP, Microsoft, Intel, and various education and non-profit organizations on developing immersive experiences and strategy. She has provided insights to the United Nations and the European Commission on policy recommendations on the future of learning and work.

Ken Fujiuchi & Joe Riggie

Libraries in the Age of Extended Reality: Changing the way we think about discovery, access, and preservation of information.

Ken Fujiuchi is the Emerging Technology Librarian at the E. H. Butler Library, SUNY Buffalo State College. Ken holds a Master's in Library Science from the University at Buffalo. His research interests include information literacy, extended reality, social media, linked data, and other emerging technologies.

Joe Riggie is the head of Information Management at Buffalo State College where he manages library systems, e-resources, and library acquisitions. He holds a Master’s in Library Science from the University at Buffalo. He loves science fiction, fantasy football, and sleep (when he can get it).

Mojgan Matloob Haghanikar

Cyberlearning with Augmented Reality (AR): Use cases of AR in science and engineering education

Mojgan Matloob Haghanikar, Ph.D. is a physics and astronomy educator. Her doctoral dissertation involved data analytics that modeled pre-service teachers’ scientific patterns of reasoning based on the predictors that were features of instruction. The methodology of her research was qualitative and quantitative multi-stages, cluster analysis. The outcome was statistical logistic regression models that described students’ higher levels of thinking processes in terms of the various parameters of instruction. The data was collected from 900 students over the USA.

Haghanikar has been a physics faculty since 2011as well as an educational designer. She developed asynchronous online courses for physics and chemistry for 800 users at NYU as well as a hybrid course for Astronomy. The courses had many appealing features such as simulations, self-diagnostic assessment with adaptive pace, animations, interactive games, and engaging tutorials. For the previous productions, she worked closely with the production team of graphic designers and simulation developers. As a disciplined based research faculty, Mojgan is interested in putting educational research into practice, using a careful design to implement various tools and technologies. Mojgan is a founder of a start-up called VISTA LINKS SCIENCE LABS (VLS labs) aimed at using augmented reality platforms in teaching sciences, engineering, and workforce training.

Ciprian N. Ionita, PhD

Clinical Applications of Medical 3D Printing

Ciprian N. Ionita, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the University at Buffalo with a dual appointment in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Department Neurosurgery in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. He is the director of the Endovascular Devices and Imaging Lab at Canon Stroke and Vascular Research Center. His research focuses on improvement of endovascular image guided interventions and encompasses three major components: medical imaging, computer programming and endovascular device development. He and his team have developed complex 3D printed (3DP) vascular patient specific phantoms based on 3D imaging. His team is also involved in developing implantable devices; they are collaborating with metal printing industries in testing methods to develop 3DP patient specific devices.