Don Engel, Ph.D. - Research

Current Graduate Students

Graduate Student Alumni (as dissertation or thesis advisor)

Jacob Rubinstein (UMBC MS 2024)

Naomi Tack (UMBC MS 2024) (co-advised by Rebecca Williams)
Kaur Kullman (TalTech PhD 2023) (as co-advisor)
Peter Stein (UMBC MS 2022)

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Engel, D., Tack, N., Williams, R.; WebXR, CAVEs, and the Balance of XR Platform Agnosticity Versus Performance in Immersive Scientific Visualization; IEEE-VR 2024; Accepted.
Rubinstein, J., Ferraro, F., Matuszek, M., Engel, D.; A Large Model’s Ability to Identify 3D Objects as a Function of Viewing Angle; IEEE AIxVR 2024. Los Angeles, California; Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Piscataway, New Jersey; 28 February 2024, pages 281-288.
Higgins, P.; Barron, R.; Engel, E.; Lukin, S.; Matuszek, C.; A Collaborative Building Task in VR vs. Reality; Springer Proceedings on Advanced Robotics (SPAR); Springer International Publishing, Cham, Switzerland; Accepted on 11-Sep-2023.
Grubb, T., Clune, T., Lait, L., Zwicker, M., Guimond, S., West, R., Eastman, R., Kullman, K., Engel, D.; Using XR for Improving Scientific Discovery with Numerical Weather Models; Proceedings of the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2023), Pasadena, California; Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Piscataway, New Jersey; 20 October 2023, pages 1537-1540.
Tack, N., Tama., B.A., Jebeli, A., Janeja, V., Engel, D., Williams, R.; Metrics for the Quality and Consistency of Ice Layer Annotations; Proceedings of the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2023), Pasadena, California; Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Piscataway, New Jersey; 20 October 2023, pages 4935-4938.
Tack, N., Holschuh, N., Sharma, S., Williams, R., Engel, D.; Development and initial testing of XR-based fence diagrams for polar science; Proceedings of the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2023), Pasadena, California; Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Piscataway, New Jersey; 20 October 2023, pages 1541-1544.
Engel, D., Rubinstein, J.; Drones, Phones, and Stones: Visualization for Collaborative Digitization of Historic Cemeteries; PEARC '23: Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing;; Association for Computing Machinery, New York City, New York; July 2023, pages 413–416.
Tack, N., Holschuh, N., Sharma, S., Williams, R., Engel, D.; Visualizing the Greenland Ice Sheet in VR using Immersive Fence Diagrams; PEARC '23: Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing; Association for Computing Machinery, New York City, New York; July 2023, pages 429–432.
Rubinstein, J., Matuszek, C., Engel, D.; Photogrammetry and VR for Comparing 2D and Immersive Linguistic Data Collection (Student Abstract); Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence; Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, Washington, DC; 26 June 2023.
Ask, T., Kullman, K., Sütterlin, S., Knox, B., Engel, D., Lugo, R.; A 3D Mixed Reality Visualization of Network Topology and Activity Results in Better Dyadic Cyber Team Communication and Cyber Situational Awareness; Frontiers in Big Data; Frontiers Media, Lausanne, Switzerland; Volume 6, 27 Jan 2023.
Sharma, S., Engel, D.; Mobile augmented reality system for object detection, alert, and safety; Proceedings of the IS&T International Symposium on Electronic Imaging (EI 2023) in the Engineering Reality of Virtual Reality Conference; Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T), 7003 Kilworth Lane, Springfield, Virginia; January 15-19, 2023.
Higgins, P., Barron, R., Engel, D., Matuszek, C.; A Comparative Analysis of VR-Based and Real-World Human-Robot Collaboration for Small-Scale Joining; 2023 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR); Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Piscataway, New Jersey; Volume 37, Issue 13, 1 May 2023, pages 16312-16313.
Higgins, P., Barron, R., Engel, D., Matuszek, C.; Lessons From A Small-Scale Robot Joining Experiment in VR; 6th International Workshop on Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed-Reality for Human-Robot Interactions (VAM-HRI); Association for Computing Machinery, New York City, New York; March 2023.
Rubinstein, J., Engel, D.; Drones, Phones, and Stones: Initial Testing of a Role-Based, Computer-Supported Approach to Collaborative Cemetery Indexing; GROUP '23: Companion Proceedings of the 2023 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work; 8 January 2023.
Schuckman, M., Prouty, R., Chapman, D., and Engel, D.; Using Moffat Profiles to Register Astronomical Images; ECCV 2022; Springer International Publishing, Cham, Switzerland; Volume 13801, 14 Feb 2023, pages 80–95.
Peterson, D, Andrades, B., Lizarazu-Ampuero, K., Deshmukh, J., Stapor, T., Destaffan, W., Engel, D., Krometis, J. and Kauffman, J.; Integration of Reinforcement Learning and Unreal Engine for Enemy Containment via Autonomous Swarms; AIAA SciTech 2023; 19 Jan 2023.
Kullman, K., and Engel, D.; User Interactions in Virtual Data Explorer; HCI International 2022; Springer International Publishing, Cham, Switzerland; Volume 13310, 16 June 2022, pages 333–347.
Kebe, G.Y., Higgins, P., Jenkins, P., Darvish, K., Sachdeva R., Barron, R., Winder, J., Engel, D., Raff, E., Ferraro, F., and Matuszek, C.; A Spoken Language Dataset of Descriptions for Speech-Based Grounded Language Learning; Proceedings of the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS); Neural Information Processing Systems Foundation; The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts; 4 Jun 2021.
Kullman, K., and Engel, D.; Interactive Stereoscopically Perceivable Multidimensional Data Visualizations for Cybersecurity; Journal of Defence & Security Technologies; Bulgarian Defence Institute, Sofia, Bulgaria; Volume 4, Issue 3, Number 3, 12 Dec 2021, pages 37-52.
Higgins, P., Kebe, G.Y., Berlier, A., Darvish, K., Engel, D., Ferraro, F., and Matuszek, C.; Towards Making Virtual Human-Robot Interaction a Reality; 3rd International Workshop on Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed-Reality for Human-Robot Interactions (VAM-HRI); Association for Computing Machinery, New York City, New York; March 2021.
Murnane, M. Higgins, P. Saraf, M., Ferraro, F., Matuszek, C., and Engel, D.; A Simulator for Human-Robot Interaction in Virtual Reality; IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW); Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Piscataway, New Jersey; 2021, pages 470-471.
Kullman, K., Bachanan, L., Komlodi, A., and Engel, D.; Mental Model Mapping Method for Cybersecurity; HCI for Cybersecurity, Privacy and Trust; Springer International Publishing, Cham, Switzerland; July 2020, pages 458-470.
Ahuja, R., Khan, D., Tahir, S. Wang, M., Symonette, D., Pan, S., Stacey, S., and Engel, D.; Machine Learning and Student Performance in Teams; Artificial Intelligence in Education. AIED 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer International Publishing, Cham, Switzerland; Volume 12164, 30 June 2020, pages 301-305.
Murnane, M., Engel, D., Freeland, S., Boot, L., Jarzynski, M., Lindvig, K., Hillersdal, L., and Earle, D.; Extending CoNavigator into a Collaborative Digital Space; GROUP '20: Companion of the 2020 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work; Association for Computing Machinery, New York City, New York; January 2020, pages 127-130.
Ahuja, R., Khan, D., Symonette, D., Pan, S., Stacey, S., and Engel, D.; Towards the Automatic Assessment of Student Teamwork; GROUP '20: Companion of the 2020 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work; Association for Computing Machinery, New York City, New York; January 2020, pages 143-146.
Murnane, M., Breitmeyer, M., Matuszek, C., and Engel, D.; Virtual Reality and Photogrammetry for Improved Reproducibility of Human-Robot Interaction Studies; 2019 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR); Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Piscataway, New Jersey; 2019, pages 1092-1093.
Ahuja, R., Khan, D., Symonette, D., desJardins, M., Stacey, S., and Engel, D.; A Digital Dashboard for Supporting Online Student Teamwork; CSCW '19: Conference Companion Publication of the 2019 on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing Association for Computing Machinery, New York City, New York; 9 November 2019, pages 132-136.
Carter, J., Delahanty, D., Strasser, J., Knoedlerr, A., Wilson, G., Davis, R., and Engel, D.; Operational and Fiscal Management of Core Facilities: A Survey of Chief Research Officers; Journal of Research Administration; Society of Research Administrators International, Arlington, Virginia; Volume 50, Number 3, Fall 2019, pages 14-21.
Murnane, M., Breitmeyer, M., Ferraro, F., Matuszek, C., and Engel, D.; Learning from Human-Robot Interactions in Modeled Scenes; SIGGRAPH '19: ACM SIGGRAPH 2019 Posters; Association for Computing Machinery, New York City, New York; 28 July 2019, pages 1-2.
Bender, G., Lehmann, A., Zou, H., Cheng, H. Fry, H., Engel, D., Therien, M., Blasie, J., Roder, H., Saven, J., and DeGrado, W.; De Novo Design of a Single-Chain Diphenylporphyrin Metalloprotein; Journal of the American Chemical Society; American Chemical Society, Washington, D.C.; Volume 129, Number 35, 5 September 2007, pages 10732-10740.
Geremia, S. Di Costanzo, L., Randaccio, L., Engel, D., Lombardi, A., Nastri, F., and DeGrado, W.; Response of a Designed Metalloprotein to Changes in Metal Ion Coordination, Exogenous Ligands, and Active Site Volume Determined by X-ray Crystallography; Journal of the American Chemical Society; American Chemical Society, Washington, D.C.; Volume 127, Number 49, 14 December 2005, pages 17266-17276.
Engel, D. and DeGrado, W.; α-α Linking Motifs and Interhelical Orientations; Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics; Wiley, Hoboken, New Jersey; Volume 61, Number 2, 15 August 2005, pages 325-337.
Lahr, S., Engel, D., Stayrook, S., Maglio O., North, B., Geremia, S., Lombardi, A., and DeGrado, W.; Analysis and Design of Turns in α-Helical Hairpins; Journal of Molecular Biology; Elsevier, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Volume 346, Issue 5, 11 March 2005, pages 1441-1454.
Engel, D., Senes, A., and DeGrado, W.; Folding of helical membrane proteins: the role of polar, GxxxG-like and proline motifs; Current Opinion in Structural Biology; Elsevier, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Volume 14, Issue 4, August 2004, pages 465-479.
Engel, D. and DeGrado, W.; Amino Acid Propensities are Position-Dependent Throughout the Length of α-Helices; Journal of Molecular Biology; Elsevier, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Volume 337, Issue 5, 9 April 2004, pages 1195-1205.
Engel, D., Charniak, E., and Johnson, M.; Parsing and Disfluency Placement; EMNLP '02: Proceedings of the ACL-02 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing; Association for Computational Linguistics, Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania; Volume 10, July 2002, pages 49-54.