Bill Kapralos

Bill Kapralos (BSc, MSC, and PhD in Computer Science) is an Associate Professor at Ontario Tech University (Faculty of Business and Information Technology and maxSIMhealth Group). He is also an Honourable Guest Professor at Shizuoka University (Hamamatsu, Japan), and the Technical Lead of the Collaborative Human Immersive Interaction Laboratory (CHISIL), Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto. His current research interests include: immersive technologies, serious gaming, multi-modal virtual environments/simulation/reality, the perception of auditory events, and 3D (spatial) sound generation. He was recently awarded a Greek Diaspora Fellowship (sponsored by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation), a past recipient of an Australian Government 2018 Endeavour Executive Fellowship to conduct research in Australia, a past recipient of a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and Japan Society for the P romotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship.