Amela Sadagic

Affiliation

Naval Postgraduate School

Biography

Dr. Amela Sadagic is a Research Associate Professor and a Co-director of the Center for Advanced Manufacturing and the Consortium for Advanced Manufacturing Research and Education (CAMRE) at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) in Monterey, CA. In the past, she coordinated the National Teleimmersion Initiative (NTII). While at NPS, she was a PI and co-PI on research efforts supported by over $10M of research funding; the user studies led by Dr. Sadagic involved over 4800 subjects. Her research interests include virtual and augmented reality, human factors, training systems, diffusion and large-scale adoption of technology. She currently serves as an Associate Editor for the Frontiers in Virtual Reality Industry, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, and PRESENCE: Virtual and Augmented Reality journals. Dr. Sadagic holds a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from University College London, UK