Misha Sra, a recent Fluid Interfaces alum who is now an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara and Director of the Perceptual Engineering Lab, has won the 2020 IEEE VGTC Virtual Reality Best Dissertation Award for her dissertation, “A Framework for Enhancing the Sense of Presence in Virtual and Mixed Reality." The award is given every year to the author of the best doctoral dissertation in the broad field of virtual reality, defended within the preceding two calendar years.