Mirjana Prpa

Research interests

• Virtual / Augmented Reality
• Artificial Intelligence
• Machine Learning

Education

• PhD, School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University
• MArch, University of Novi Sad - Serbia
• BArch, University of Novi Sad - Serbia

Biography

Mirjana Prpa is an assistant teaching professor at Khoury College of Computer Sciences. Her area of teaching is human-computer interaction. She graduated from the University of Novi Sad in Serbia with a bachelor’s and master’s degree in architecture. Outside of teaching, she is currently an AR product manager and head of the AI division at NexTech AR solutions.

Her research interests include artificial intelligence, machine learning, and virtual/augmented reality. She has received multiple awards in her field, including:

• 2020 SFU/SSHRC Small Research Grant of Art, Science, and Technology, Leonardo 50th Anniversary, SIGGRAPH, 2018, Vancouver, Canada, listed as an Emerging Leonardo
• 2018 KEY Big Data Graduate Scholarship, Simon Fraser University
• 2018 listed as one of the Emerging Leonardos
• 2017 Lumen Prize: Pulse Breath Water, short-listed in AI category
• 2017 Lumen Prize: Pulse Breath Water, long-listed in AI category
• 2017 SFU/SSHRC Small Research Grant
• 2016 MLSRI Research Fellowship
• 2016 Movement and Emotion as Computational Interfaces: Research Fellowship
• 2013-2016 | Graduate Fellowship, Simon Fraser University

She has been published in ACM conference proceedings such as CHI, DIS, Frontiers, and Leonardo. She is also associated with the AC, CHI 2021 and AC, DIS 2020 committees.

Recent publications