Cristian Luciano

Clinical Assistant Professor, Biomedical and Health Information Sciences

Email

clucia1@uic.edu

Office Phone

773-315-1466

Office

1919 W. Taylor St., 233 AHSB

Mail Code

530

Office Hours

By appointment

About

Dr. Cristian Luciano is an expert in virtual, mixed, and augmented reality applied to engineering, dentistry, and medicine. His areas of expertise involve 3D graphics, haptics, scientific visualization, collision detection, GPU programming, dynamics simulation, and multimodality motion tracking. His current research interests are surgical simulation and training, pre-surgical planning, robotic surgery, and surgical navigation.

Selected Grants

UIC Chancellor’s Discovery Funds, Augmented Reality Proctor for Simulation and Training of Central Line Placement, PI

Selected Publications

“Modelling frame losses in a parallel Alternate Frame Rendering system with a Computational Best-effort Scheme”, Computers & Graphics

“A part-task haptic simulator for ophthalmic surgical training”, 2016 IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces (3DUI)

“Evaluation of sensory and motor skills in neurosurgery applicants using a virtual reality neurosurgical simulator: The sensory-motor quotient”, Journal of surgical education

“Virtual Reality Cerebral Aneurysm Clipping Simulation With Real-Time Haptic Feedback”, Neurosurgery

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Education

PhD, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, 2010
MS, Computer Science, 2006
MS, Industrial Engineering, 2000
BS, Information Systems Engineering, 1994