I am a team leader, researcher, engineer and an interaction designer with 15 years of experience designing and building natural user interactions with hand tracking, gaze and face tracking, speech recognition, various sensors, controllers and machine learning. My unique strength lies in equally understanding the user experience and the technology, allowing me to holistically grasp the ‘what’, the ‘why’ and the ‘how’ of a product. I built experiences for various platforms, from VR, AR, vehicles and wall-sized displays to PC apps and games.

I am driven by the desire to create interactive products and experiences that people love to use, especially in AR/VR/XR. I wear multiple hats, from being hands-on designing and building to leading by helping each person be the best version of themselves thereby pushing the whole company forward.

In my past PhD life in human-computer interaction at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (University of Illinois at Chicago), I investigated how ultra-high resolution, wall-sized displays serve as a shared digital medium for transforming collocated group work. During this time I designed and developed novel multi-user, multi-modal interaction techniques and collaborative tools for such displays. The result of my work was in use by over a 100 research and industry sites around the world.

Aside from professional interests, my curiosity in understanding how complex systems work has led me to learn about the human body and the spirit. In other words, how to live a healthy, happier and a more fulfilling life. As you can imagine, this learning will never stop. I love to spend time in nature with a mountain bike, skis or a camera, appreciating what nature gifts us and yet we rarely seem to have the time to appreciate. I was also very active in the car community, building, racing and hacking cars.

I have worked at Mercedes-Benz Research & Development, Intel RealSense, consulted for NASA Ames, all in Silicon Valley in California. I was born in Zagreb (Croatia), I lived in Pennsylvania, Chicago, California, Barcelona (Spain), London (UK) and currently I live in Lisbon (Portugal).