Bobby Bodenheimer is a professor of Computer Science at Vanderbilt University, with secondary appointments in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Psychology, and Psychology & Human Development. He received a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering, and a B.A. in Mathematics from the University of Tennessee. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering under the direction of John Doyle at Caltech, doing research on parameter-varying control systems. He was a visiting research fellow at the Microsoft graphics research group where he worked on motion capture and controllable human animation, and a postdoctoral fellow under Jessica Hodgins in the GVU at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

At Vanderbilt, his research examines virtual and augmented reality, specifically how people act, perceive, locomote, and navigate in virtual and augmented environments. He runs the Learning in Virtual Environments (LiVE) laboratory. He is the recipient of an NSF CAREER award and his research is funded by NSF, NIH, ONR, and DoD. He has been the conference chair of the ACM APGV and the ACM SCA, the program chair of ACM APGV and IEEE VR, and is a member of the steering committee for ACM SAP. A senior member of the IEEE, he is currently Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Transactions on Applied Perception.

Curriculum Vitae (May 2023)

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