Welcome to the World of Soumyajit

Ph.D. student at Vanderbilt University - Ex Nokia Bell Labs Intern - Passionate VR/AR Researcher

Collaborative Navigation Improves Spatial Learning Across Symmetric and Asymmetric Locomotion in Virtual Reality

Collaborative VR Navigation & Spatial Learning

IEEE TVCG · Presented at IEEE VR 2026 · Best Paper Honorable Mention

Can Treadmill Walking Replicate Natural Walking? Optimizing Speed, Platform Tilt, and Training Duration on a Cyberith Virtualizer Elite 2

Optimizing Treadmill Walking in VR

IEEE VR 2026

VR Showcase 2025 at Vanderbilt University

VR Showcase 2025

CS 4249/5249 · Vanderbilt University · Fall 2025

The Effect of Crowds on Peripersonal Space and Interpersonal Distance in Immersive Virtual Environments

Crowds & Personal Space in VR

IEEE ISMAR 2025

Paper Review Experience

Voluntary Service

Peer Reviewer & IPC Member

Multiplayer Games in Unity Game Engine Tutorials For Projects in Virtual Reality Design (CS 4249/5249) Course

Unity Multiplayer Tutorial

CS 4249/5249 · Vanderbilt University · Fall 2020, 2023 & 2025

Teleoperation Using Video Prediction by Taking Network Delay & Jitter into Account

Teleoperation with Video Prediction in VR

Nokia Bell Labs 2025 · Outstanding Innovation Award

Godot 4.3 Game Engine Tutorials For Game Engine Design (CS-3891-03) Course

Godot 4.3 Game Engine Tutorial

CS 3891-03 · Vanderbilt University · Spring 2025

Comparative Effectiveness of an Omnidirectional Treadmill versus Natural Walking for Navigating in Virtual Environments

Treadmill vs. Natural Walking in VR

ACM SAP 2024 · Best Paper Honorable Mention

Inter-Pupillary Distance Mismatch Does Not Affect Distance Perception in Action Space

IPD Mismatch & Space Perception in VR

ACM SAP 2024

VR Showcase 2023 at Vanderbilt University

VR Showcase 2023

CS 4249/5249 · Vanderbilt University · Fall 2023

Effects of Asymmetric Locomotion Methods on Collaborative Navigation and Wayfinding in Shared Virtual Environments

Asymmetric Locomotion & Wayfinding in VR

Doctoral Consortium · IEEE VR 2022

VR Showcase 2022 at Vanderbilt University

VR Showcase 2022

CS 4249/5249 · Vanderbilt University · Fall 2022

Avatar Embodiment & Personal Space in VR

IEEE TVCG · Presented at IEEE VR 2022

Distance Estimation with Mobile Augmented Reality in Action Space: Effects of Animated Cues

Animated Distance Cues in Mobile AR

VHCIE Workshop · IEEE VR 2021

Distance Estimation with Social Distancing: A Mobile Augmented Reality Study

Social Distancing Cues in Mobile AR

PerCxR Workshop · IEEE ISMAR 2021

Using Mobile Augmented Reality for Spatial Cognition

Mobile AR & Spatial Perception

ICSC 2021

Remote Mobile Augmented Reality for Spatial Cognition

Remote Mobile AR & Spatial Perception

CHI Workshop 2021

Distance Perception in Augmented Reality with Animated Avatars as a Cue

Animated Avatars as Distance Cues in AR

VHCIE Workshop · IEEE VR 2020

Multi-Modal Distributed Simulation Combining Cars, Bicyclists, and Pedestrians

Multi-Modal Traffic Simulation in VR

SaferSim 2018

Biometric Voting System using Adhar Card in India

Biometric Voting System

IJIRCCE Journal