Alex Okot-Olwal

Alex Olwal, Ph.D.

Senior Staff Research Scientist, Google

website: www.olwal.com

Interaction Technology R&D · Augmented Reality ·Wearables ·Ubiquitous Computing ·Human—Computer Interaction ·Accessibility ·Displays and Sensors

Research conducted at Google Research, MIT, Columbia University, University of California, KTH (Royal Institute of Technology), and Microsoft Research, with much appreciated collaborators and contributors at the same or other institutions. Also, thank you Stanford University, Rhode Island School of Design and KTH for the opportunity to teach.

I am a Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google, and a founder of the Interaction Lab. I direct research and development of interaction technologies based on opportunities in display technology, low-power and high-speed sensing, wearables, actuation, electronic textiles, human—computer interaction, and artificial intelligence. I am passionate about accelerating innovation and disruption through tools, techniques and devices that enable augmentation and empowerment of human abilities. Research interests include augmented reality, ubiquitous computing, 3D user interfaces, interaction techniques, accessibility and health interfaces, and software/hardware prototyping.