His highly interdisciplinary applied research is in the design and evaluation of novel human-computer systems, particularly those that involve ubiquitous computing, intelligent agents, and virtual reality, that address societal problems. Examples include the Marine Debris Tracker App (marinedebris.engr.uga.edu), Virtual STEM Buddies exhibit at the Children’s Museum of Atlanta, and medical training tool, nervesim.com. In 2017, he became the founding director of the Georgia Informatics Institutes for Research and Education, which is leading advancement of computational tools across disciplines, and includes faculty members from over half of the Colleges at the University of Georgia.