She is the founder and director of the 3D Interaction and Agents (3DIA) research lab at the University of Wyoming. Her research focus is on 3D User Interfaces for Virtual Environments, Immersive Visualizations, and Virtual Humans, primarily in bimanual and multi-modal interaction. Dr. Banic received her Ph.D. and M.S. from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in 2008, and B.S. in CS and B.A. in Art from Duquesne University in 2003. She held a Post-Doctoral Fellowship position in the Virtual Environments Group at Clemson University, School of Computing.