Hi! I'm Sammy. I'm a 3rd year PhD Candidate in the Computer Science department at the University of Houston. My research interests include Virtual Reality, Game Development, Medical Imaging, and Artificial Intelligence.

I'm the first person to get Doom to run on a Tesla, and proving that 3rd party games can be developed to be specifically controlled by the car. 

I am also appointed as an Adjunct Faculty member at the University of Houston - Downtown, and am currently the President of the Graduate and Professional Student Association at the Main Campus. 

I am currently working on an online multiplayer video game codenamed Project Boltzmann, everything relies on randomness :)

My dissertation will focus on Redirected Walking, which will keep a user within a confined physical space while allowing for infinite exploration in a virtual world. The user will be able to conduct training sessions, engage in medical rehabilitation exercises, play video games, or be embodied within an immersive story to walk a mile within one's shoes.

My recent project involved using voice activation and LLMs to pair input to functions so medical data can be viewed and reflected across a network. 

My hobbies include game development, skydiving, digital design and bouldering.

I am always open to collaboration or answering question in regards to the University of Houston. 

If you would like to contact me, please do so through stawakkol at uh dot edu

I am currently looking for work, and am always updating my skills. My resume is available upon request

http://github.com/strakerak