Alejandro Martin-Gomez is an assistant research professor in the Department of Computer Science and a member of the Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics (LCSR). His research interests include the study of fundamental concepts of visual perception and their transferability to medical applications that involve using augmented and virtual reality.
His work has been published in some of the most prestigious journals and at conferences, including the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, the IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces, and IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. Martin-Gomez also has served as a mentor and advisor to several students and scholars at the Technical University of Munich, the Johns Hopkins University, and more recently, at the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg. In addition, he is involved in professional editorial activities and was a program committee member for the International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality in 2016, 2018, 2021, 2023, and 2024.
Before joining Johns Hopkins, Martin-Gomez completed his PhD in computer science at the Technical University of Munich, from which he graduated summa cum laude.