Avinash Gupta.We are excited to welcome Specialized Teaching Assistant Professor Avinash Gupta to Illinois, ISE, and The Grainger College of Engineering. Avinash specializes in AR/VR for smart healthcare and surgical training. He will be supporting the MS in Health Technology (a joint effort between ISE and our friends in Applied Health Sciences), and collaborating with the Health Care Engineering Systems Center. Professor Gupta brings experience in industry as well as a doctorate from Oklahoma State. About his publications, Gupta says: "My research focused on the exploration of HCI-based approaches in designing simulators in the healthcare context (surgical training and covid nurse training). I have also served as a part of research teams involved in the design of cyber-physical approaches where the virtual environment serves as a link between collaborative distributed cyber and physical components (for domains including autism, advanced manufacturing, and NASA deep space exploration)."