Dr. Maria Gorlatova is a Nortel Networks Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science at Duke University. Her research is in emerging pervasive technologies, with a focus on next-generation augmented reality. She received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University, and her M.Sc. and B.Sc. (Summa Cum Laude) degrees in Electrical Engineering from University of Ottawa, Canada. She spent two years at Princeton University Electrical Engineering Department as an Associate Research Scholar and an Associate Director of the Princeton University EDGE Lab.

Dr. Gorlatova was named among the 10 N2Women Rising Stars in 2019, and has received multiple awards including the 2021 NSF CAREER Award, 2023 DARPA Young Faculty Award, 2021 Meta Research Award, 2023 CISCO Research Award, ACM SenSys Best Student Demonstration Award, ACM/IEEE IPSN Best Research Artifact Award, the IEEE Communications Society Young Author Best Paper Award, and the IEEE Communications Society Award for Advances in Communications.