Professional Pictures and Bios

Here are the pictures I generally use when someone wants a promo picture for a talk or other web page. While my hair isn't always this colorful, it's a nice change from the "grey-haired old white dude" look.

Some biographies follow.

General bio:

Blair MacIntyre is Professor at Northeastern University in the College of Art, Media, and Design and in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences. He was Global Head of Immersive Technology Research for JPMorganChase from 2022 to 2026, where his research team sought to understand how immersive technologies can be used effectively to benefit the company, its employees, and customers. He was a Professor in the School of Interactive Computing in the College of Computing at Georgia Tech from 1998 to 2022, where he directed the Augmented Environments Lab's work on the design and implementation of interactive mixed-reality and augmented-reality environments. His current research interest is collaborative mixed reality, in particular using distributed, social mixed reality to support online conferences, meetings, and teaching. Over the years, he has worked on programming and design tools for AR, understanding the potential of AR as a new medium for games, entertainment, education and work. He has also investigated military, industrial, and enterprise uses of AR. He has been working on bringing AR to the web since 2008, when he started the open-source Argon project, and was a Principal Research Scientist at Mozilla helping lead their web-based AR/VR efforts from 2016 to 2020 and was a co-designer of the initial WebXR APIs. He has been doing research in augmented reality since 1991, is actively involved with numerous conferences and workshops, speaks and consults regularly, and has published over 100 academic papers in the field. He is a member of the IEEE VGTC VR Academy and the AWE XR Hall of Fame.

Short bio:

Blair MacIntyre is Professor at Northeastern University in the College of Art, Media, and Design and in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences. He was Global Head of Immersive Technology Research for JPMorganChase from 2022 to 2026, where his research team sought to understand how immersive technologies can be used effectively to benefit the company, its employees, and customers. He has been doing AR research since 1991, and founded the Augmented Environments Lab at Georgia Tech in 1999 where he was a Professor until 2022. He has been working on bringing AR to the web since 2008, including spending 2016-2020 at Mozilla working on web-based AR/VR. His research is currently focused on using distributed, social mixed reality to support online conferences, meetings, and teaching. He has worked on AR systems in military, industrial, enterprise, educational, and gaming domains, and consults on technical, design, and legal issues in AR.