Dr. Tanvir Irfan Chowdhury

Assistant Professor - Department of Computer Sciences and Electrical Engineering
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Biography

Dr. Tanvir Irfan Chowdhury is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Sciences and Electrical Engineering at Marshall University. He earned his Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas at San Antonio in 2019 and taught computer science courses. His research interest includes Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), specifically, in the areas of Virtual / Augmented / Mixed Reality applications, Computer Graphics, 2D/3D User Interface, Serious Games, Rehabilitation, etc. His teaching experience includes Algorithms and Data Structures, Discrete Math and Structures, Application Programming using Java, Computer Architecture, Computer Organization, Software Engineering, and Computer Graphics, Introduction to Cryptography, Visual Analytic, etc.

Ph.D. The University of Texas at San Antonio, 2019
MS. The University of Texas at San Antonio, 2018
BS. Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, 2011
Human-Computer Interaction, Virtual / Augmented / Mixed Reality applications, Computer Graphics, 2D/3D User Interface, Serious Games, Rehabilitation.
Chowdhury, Tanvir Irfan, Sharif Mohammad Shahnewaz Ferdous, Tabitha Peck, and John Quarles. “Virtual Ability Simulation: Applying Rotational Gain to the Leg to Increase Confidence During Physical Rehabilitation.” In ICAT-EGVE 2019-International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence and Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments. 2019.
Ferdous, Sharif Mohammad Shahnewaz, Tanvir Irfan Chowdhury, Imtiaz Muhammad Arafat, and John Quarles. “Investigating the reason for increased postural instability in virtual reality for persons with balance impairments“. In Proceedings of the 24th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology, p. 39:1–39:7. ACM, 2018.
Chowdhury, Tanvir Irfan, Sharif Mohammad Shahnewaz Ferdous, and John Quarles. “Information recall in a virtual reality disability simulation“. In Proceedings of the 23rd ACM symposium on virtual reality software and technology, p. 37:1–37:10. ACM, 2017.
Chowdhury, Tanvir Irfan, Raphael Costa, and John Quarles. “Information recall in a mobile VR disability simulation“. In 2017 9th International Conference on Virtual Worlds and Games for Serious Applications (VS-Games), pp. 125-128. IEEE, 2017.
Shahnewaz Ferdous, Sharif Mohammad, Tanvir Irfan Chowdhury, Imtiaz Muhammad Arafat, and John Quarles. “Static Rest Frame to Improve Postural Stability in Virtual and Augmented Reality.” Frontiers in Virtual Reality 1(2020).
Chowdhury, Tanvir Irfan, Sharif Mohammad Shahnewaz Ferdous, and John Quarles. “VR Disability Simulation Reduces Implicit Bias Towards Persons with Disabilities.” IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 2019.
King, Kevin, John Quarles, Vaishnavi Ravi, Tanvir Irfan Chowdhury, Donia Friday, Craig Sisson, and Yusheng Feng. “The Impact of a Location-Sensing Electronic Health Record on Clinician Efficiency and Accuracy: A Pilot Simulation Study“. Applied clinical informatics9, no. 04 2018: 841-848.
Chowdhury, Tanvir Irfan. “Towards Reverse Disability Simulation in a Virtual Environment“. In 2018 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR), pp. 803-804. IEEE, 2018.
Chowdhury, Tanvir Irfan, Ferdous, Sharif Mohammad Shahnewaz, Tabitha C. Peck, and John Quarles. “Reverse Disability Simulation in a Virtual Environment“. In 2018 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR), pp. 529-530. IEEE, 2018
Paper reviewer: IEEE VR & 3DUI: 2021, 2020, 2018.
Student volunteer coordinator for NSF-iPerform Meeting @ UTSA– 2017.
Student volunteer: IEEEVR2017, IEEEVR2018.
Volunteer: Youth Code Jam, Google CS-First club, and San Antonio Public Library.