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Robert LiKamWa

Valued employee, The GAME School

LiKamWa directs Meteor Studio, which explores the research and design of software and hardware for mobile Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Mixed Reality, and visual computing systems for storytelling and sensemaking.

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Engineering students interact with models in an immersive augmented reality environment.

Extended reality class prepares students for semiconductor industry

January 23, 2025

Fulton Schools Professor Umberto Celano is using extended reality technology in the classroom to enhance semiconductor metrology methods for students.

Biomedical engineering major Ava Claire Lariego (left) works with faculty mentor SungMin Sohn on a FURI research project to develop a new material to improve magnetic resonance imaging.

Meet student researchers solving education, health, security and sustainability challenges

November 13, 2023

Undergraduate and graduate students in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at ASU conduct use-inspired research to address real-world challenges.

Yanchao Zhang with students and drones

ASU awarded $10M to advance future-generation wireless networks

October 18, 2023

ASU Professor Yanchao Zhang is leading a $10 million initiative funded by the U.S. Department of Defense to develop future-generation wireless technology.

individual wearing a virtual reality smell engine on their head

Smelling strawberries, smoke and space in virtual reality

September 8, 2022

ASU researcher Robert LiKamWa leads a team working to add realistic smell to virtual reality for educational purposes such as recognizing contaminated water.

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Making computers smarter, more helpful

April 1, 2020

Robert LiKamWa believes computers that can visually see their natural environment will be better equipped to connect with and help people in the real world. He will continue this work thanks to an NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award.
a man holding a tablet with augmented reality images showing up on the screen

Innovations in imagery

June 13, 2019

Promising research led by Assistant Professor Robert LiKamWa to advance visualization technology will be featured at an international mobile systems conference
Five people pose for a photo in the Meteor Studio. Caption: Assistant professor Robert LiKamWa and his students from the Arizona State University Meteor Studio impressed the mobile computing systems international research community at the Association for Computing Machinery’s HotMobile ‘18 conference workshop, taking home a Best Poster award and getting valuable feedback on their research. From left to right: Electrical engineering graduate student Sridhar Gunnam, computer science graduate student Siddhant Prakash, Assistant Professor Robert LiKamWa, computer engineering doctoral student Jinhan Hu and computer engineering (electrical engineering) graduate student Venkatesh Kodukula.

ASU Meteor Studio makes big impact at mobile computing research conference

March 26, 2018

Students from the ASU Meteor Studio impressed the mobile computing systems international research community at the ACM HotMobile ‘18, taking home a Best Poster award.