Contact the Authors
The authors of this project are proud of their work on this site, and are willing to answer any questions and inquiries you have about Unity, physiological sensors, and the tutorials given on this site and on the YouTube channel. Find out more about each and their expertise and contributions below.
Ethan Matzek
Email: ecmatzek@gmail.com
Ethan Matzek is a PhD Computer Science student at Wright State University who specializes in virtual reality development in Unity. He wrote up most of the documentation for the first, second, fourth, and fifth modules, and was the project lead for this site. Ethan is an avid pianist, reader, and gym-goer, and has found success in his paper VRMonic: A VR Piano Playing Form Trainer which was demoed at the AIxVR 2024 conference in Los Angeles. Recently, he attended CVPR 2024 as an demo exhibitionist for physiological sensing in VR.
Tyler Yankee
Email: tsyankee57@gmail.com
Tyler Yankee is an undergraduate student at Clarkson University pursuing a dual degree in Computer Science and Data Science. His research focuses on multimodal data architectures, visualizations, and statistical analysis with applications in computer vision and virtual reality. His hobbies include running, ice skating, reading, and watching hockey.
Odin Kohler
Email: odinkohler@gmail.com
Odin Kohler is an undergraduate student at Clarkson University pursuing a degree in Computer Science as well as a minor in Mathematics and Political Science. His research focuses on a wide variety of computer vision topics. His most recent work was on the hand tracking system for a piano playing form trainer, the results of which were published in AIxVR 2024.
Ava Megyeri
Email: avamegyeri1@gmail.com
Ava Megyeri is a graduate Computer Science student at Wright State university. Her research is focused in Robotics, specifically human-robot collaboration, looking into how robots can hand off objects in a more human like / natural way. She was second author in HOH: Markerless Multimodal Human-Object-Human Handover Dataset with Large Object Count, the largest handover dataset in number of objects, participants, pairs with role reversal accounted for, and total interactions captured. She also has two first author papers out in IEEE RO-MAN 2024. In her free time she plays basketball and volunteers at a cat shelter. Recently, she attended CVPR 2024 as a demo exhibitionist for physiological sensing with Robotics.
Niall Pepper
Email: niallpepper@gmail.com
Niall Pepper is an undergraduate student pursuing a Bachelors of Science in Computer Science at Clarkson University. His research mainly focuses on studying user behavior in virtual environments across different control systems. Some of his hobbies include photography, listening to music, and weightlifting.
Matt Duver
Email: mtduver@gmail.com
Matt Duver is an undergraduate at Clarkson University, finishing his Computer Science degree and Digital Arts minor in May of 2024. His research focuses primarily on creating virtual reality software for real world applications, utilizing his love for 3D modeling and art. Matt’s latest project, Hand-in-Hand, a VR application for annotating point cloud handover data, won best demo at AIxVR 2024 in Los Angeles.