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| Alma mater | University of Illinois, Chicago Universidad Metropolitana |
| Occupation | University of Central Florida |
| Known for | Computer Engineering, CAVE Automatic Virtual Environment |
| Awards | Member of the National Academy of Engineering, IEEE VGTC Virtual Reality Technical Achievement Award 2007 |
Carolina Cruz-Neira is a Spanish-Venezuelan-American computer engineer, researcher, designer, educator, and a pioneer of virtual reality (VR). She is known for inventing the cave automatic virtual environment (CAVE). She previously worked at Iowa State University (ISU), University of Louisiana at Lafayette (UL Lafayette), University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UA Little Rock),[1] and she is currently an Agere Chair Professor at University of Central Florida (UCF).
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