Doga Cagdas Demirkan

Post Doctorate Fellow

Doga Cagdas Demirkan, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral fellow in the Mining Engineering Department at the Colorado School of Mines. He received his B.Sc. in mining engineering in 2016, his M.Sc. in geodetic and geographic information technologies in 2018 from the Middle East Technical University (METU), and his Ph.D. in mining engineering in 2022 from the Colorado School of Mines. Before joining the department, he worked on a project funded by NSF as a postdoctoral associate in the geophysics department to develop an immersive, collaborative, and online virtual reality platform for visualization and training of students. Later, he developed a visual novel for the Planetarium at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. He is currently working on a project funded by the Alpha Foundation: Developing an Augmented Reality interface for first responders of mine search and rescue teams. He is working on a NIOSH project for adaptive ventilation design and real-time data visualization in AR.