UC Santa Cruz innovators among Santa Cruz Works 2022 Titans of Tech - University of California, Santa Cruz

Two outstanding UC Santa Cruz affiliates, Aviv Elor and Nada Miljkovic, person been chosen arsenic finalists for the sixth yearly Santa Cruz Works Titans of Tech, an lawsuit that honors manufacture professionals who person contributed substantially to the maturation of the section tech and entrepreneurial community. The 2022 Titans of Tech volition beryllium recognized during tonight's grant ceremony at the Santa Cruz Kuumbwa Jazz Center.

Elor, who received a B.S. grade successful robotics engineering and a Ph.D. grade successful computational media from UC Santa Cruz, is one of 3 co-founders of Immergo Labs, the world’s archetypal virtual and interactive telehealth level for carnal therapy. Immergo uses artificial quality (AI) and virtual world (VR) to incorporated telehealth capabilities and heighten the accessibility, experience, and accuracy of distant carnal therapy care. With conscionable a VR headset, the level connects patients and therapists successful the aforesaid virtual room, arsenic if they were interacting unrecorded successful person, allowing the therapist to way movements and scope of question and supply real-time feedback.

Immergo Labs, which is based successful Santa Cruz, has secured respective manufacture and world partnerships and precocious received a National Science Foundation Phase 1 Small Business Innovation assistance to further make and trial their prototype. Immergo’s beta level volition motorboat adjacent period to users connected their waitlist. The squad plans to motorboat their merchandise to the nationalist by the extremity of 2023.

Elor’s areas of expertise see quality machine interaction, immersive media, wearable robotics, computing, idiosyncratic experience, and emerging technologies, with a absorption connected iSTAR, Immersive Systems Towards Assisting Reality, Recovery, and Rehabilitation. He has authored much than 20 publications and received 8 fellowships and awards during his world vocation astatine UC Santa Cruz. 

Miljkovic is simply a UCSC alumna, artist, educator, and entrepreneur. For much than 7 years, she has taught respective undergraduate-level entrepreneurship courses astatine UCSC’s Crown College. She besides serves arsenic the programme manager for the UCSC Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurial Development (CIED), an manufacture and world hub that fosters the teaching, research, and improvement of inclusive innovation and entrepreneurship.

In 2020, Miljkovic co-founded GetVirtual, an internship programme that pairs assemblage students with section businesses to enactment their modulation to operating online, amid COVID-19’s detrimental impacts to in-person concern operations. The programme allows students to summation real-world acquisition and work learning credit, portion section businesses get the website improvement and bundle enactment they request to beryllium capable to connection their services online. In summation to GetVirtual being offered arsenic an in-person people astatine Crown College, called Crown 95: GetVirtual Business Assistance, it is present offered afloat online done Coursera, expanding the community-engagement programme to students passim the UC system.

Another 2022 Titan of Tech, Leila Takayama, taught astatine UC Santa Cruz arsenic an subordinate prof of computational media earlier returning to manufacture this year. Takayama specializes successful quality machine enactment and quality robot enactment (HRI). She is the vice president of plan and HRI astatine Robust.AI, wherever AI, robotics, and human-centered plan are combined to make collaborative, mobile robots for accrued workforce productivity. 

Also recognized arsenic Titans of Tech are: Allison Steitz, caput of maturation and innovation astatine Paystand; Bates Marshall, CEO and co-founder of Ambient Photonics, Inc.; Chris Bley, co-founder and manager of Monterey Bay DART and laminitis of AirSpace Integration; Cindi Busenhart, laminitis and CEO astatine MERGE4; Joshua Resnick, CEO/CTO astatine Parallel Flight Technologies; Stacy Nagel, unit programme manager astatine Google; and Will Wiseman and Alba Forns, co-founders astatine Climatize.