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 Dr. Larry Hodges is the Chief
Operating Officer of Recovr, Inc. and
Emeritus Professor in the School of
Computing at Clemson University. Although
retired from Clemson, he stays involved with the School as a part-time
instructor for courses in Machine Learning and Discrete Structures. During his
career he has served as the C. Tycho Howle Endowed Chair and Director of the
Clemson School of Computing, Chair of the Computer Science Department at the
University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and was a founding faculty member of
both the College of Computing and the GVU Center at Georgia Tech. He is also a
co-founder of two companies: Virtually Better, LLC in Atlanta, and Recovr, Inc.
in Clemson.
Dr. Hodges completed his PhD and MS at North
Carolina State University, the Master of Arts in Religion at Lancaster
Theological Seminary, and the BA with a double major in mathematics and physics
at Elon University. His research interests include Virtual Reality, 3D User
Interface Design and Evaluation, Interactive Training Systems and Virtual
Humans. His contributions have been recognized by a GVU Impact Award
from Georgia Tech in 2007, the IEEE Virtual Reality Career Award in
2006, the Essam El-Kwae Faculty-Student Research Award from the College
of Computing and Informatics at UNC Charlotte in 2008 and the Clemson University Research, Scholarship, and Artistic Achievement Award in 2018. In 2017 he was inducted into the Computer
Science Alumni Hall of Fame at North Carolina State University (audio). In 2018 Elon
University honored him with a College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Alumni Award.
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