Team

Lauren Buck is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Games at the University of Utah, where she directs the Spatial Perception and Cognitive Engineering (SPACE) Lab. She also holds Adjunct Assistant Professor appointments in the Kahlert School of Computing and the Department of Psychology. She earned a B.S. in Computer Science from Samford University (2015), followed by an M.S. (2020) and Ph.D. (2021) in Computer Science from Vanderbilt University. From 2022 to 2024, she was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at Trinity College Dublin in Ireland.

Current and Co-Advised Students

  • Divith Reddy

    Entertainment Arts and Engineering (MEAE, 2026)
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  • Ryan Andersen

    Entertainment Arts and Engineering (MEAE, 2026)
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  • Nico Schembri

    Computer Science
    (BS, 2026)

  • Kaylee Lai

    Entertainment Arts and Engineering
    (BA, 2026)
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  • Maisha Orthy

    Psychology (PhD)

Alumni

Yutong (Tom) Su

 Entertainment Arts and Engineering (MEAE, 2025)

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