Contact
Ming Tang
Director of XR-Lab. Digital Futures Building. School of Architecture and Interior Design, 7215, College of DAAP, University of Cincinnati
E-mail: tangmg@ucmail.uc.edu
Phone: 513-556-1856
Mail: PO Box 210016, College of DAAP : 5470 Aronoff Center, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0016 , USA
paper in Frontiers
/in News /by Ming TangDifferentiated memory and scientific cognition in AI research agents Cuadros DF, Maiga A-A, Thatham S, Ortiz A, Powers-Fletcher M and Tang M (2026) Differentiated memory and scientific cognition in AI research agents. Front. Big Data 9:1916523. doi: 10.3389/fdata.2026.1916523 AI research agents increasingly support ideation, literature search, coding, experimental execution, analysis, and manuscript drafting across the […]
SENSE-AI Studio
/in News /by Ming TangSENSE-AI: Developing Spatial Experiences for Narrative and Sensory Emotions with AI ARCH 4001 studio. SAID, DAAP, UC. The SENSE-AI Studio invites architecture and interior design students to explore how architecture can communicate story, emotion, and human experience through the design of a Museum of Emotion at Fort Ancient Earthworks, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in […]
DOE Award: Genesis Mission
/in Mixed Reality, News /by Ming TangI am very excited to share that UC grant proposal, “AI-Enabled Prediction of Coupled Hydrologic and Biogeochemical Processes in Heterogeneous Subsurface Systems,” has been selected for the U.S. Department of Energy’s initiative to accelerate scientific breakthroughs through artificial intelligence. DOE Phase 1: The Genesis Mission: Transforming Science and Energy with AI. Award Amount: $500,000 Project […]
paper in Environments Journal
/in News, Research /by Ming TangToward Sub-Sewershed Spatio-Temporal Wastewater Surveillance: A Critical Review and a Candidate Multimodal Foundation-Model Framework Cuadros, Diego F., Xi Chen, and Ming Tang. 2026. “Toward Sub-Sewershed Spatio-Temporal Wastewater Surveillance: A Critical Review and a Candidate Multimodal Foundation-Model Framework” Environments 13, no. 7: 382. https://doi.org/10.3390/environments13070382 Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) has matured into a population-level surveillance complement with operational […]
Podcast: episode of Innovation By Design
/in News /by Ming TangPodcast: Designing with Immersion: Storytelling, Training, and Spatial Understanding In this episode of Innovation By Design, Evan Troxel and Candace Kitchen talk with architect and educator Ming Tang, director of the XR Lab at the University of Cincinnati, about extended reality and the rapidly changing tools that make immersive experiences more accessible than ever. Ming […]
Poster in Urban Affairs Conference
/in News /by Ming TangPoster: Co-Designing Data Governance Policies for a Neighborhood-Based Digital Health Intervention Lauren Forbes, ..Ming Tang. Co-Designing Data Governance Policies for a Neighborhood-Based Digital Health Intervention. INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON URBAN AFFAIRS 2026. Digital health innovations (DHI) present important opportunities to improve individual health outcomes and community well-being; however, they are typically developed by private sector innovators who prioritize […]
Poster in Creativity & Cognition
/in News, Research /by Ming TangVR as a Creative Medium for Immersive Storytelling: An Autobiographic Design Exploration Bozhi Peng, Heekyoung Jung, Ming Tang, and Yoshiko Burke. 2026. VR as a Creative Medium for Immersive Storytelling: An Autobiographic Design Exploration. In Proceedings of the Creativity & Cognition 2026 conference (C&C ’26, London. UK. 2026). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, […]
Fourth Year @DF
/in News /by Ming TangWe are grateful to be recognized in Office of Research’s Digital Futures’ fourth-year celebration newsletter and honored to have the work of the XR-Lab highlighted alongside so many outstanding researchers and collaborators. Since the opening of the Digital Futures building, XR-Lab has been proud to be part of this vibrant community, which has created countless […]
Housing Studio
/in News, Teaching /by Ming Tang2026. Housing Studio. SAID, DAAP, UC This studio will focus on a large-scale housing project on one of two linear sites in Cincinnati. The proposal centers on a 100-unit dense housing intervention integrated with shared amenities serving both residents and the surrounding urban community. Rather than creating a singular tower or landmark, the studio will […]
Re-storying Fort Ancient
/in News /by Ming TangRe-storying Fort Ancient: An AI-Augmented Digital Twin Installation for Indigenous Earthwork PI: Ming Tang, Co-Is: John Hancock, Tianyu Jiang, Samira Sarabandikachyani. $5,000. CDRI Grant, DAAP, UC. 5/23/2026- 8/23/2026 This project proposes the development of an AI-augmented Digital Twin installation for the Fort Ancient Earthworks, a UNESCO World Heritage site in southern Ohio. Using reality capture, […]
CIC-VISTA
/in News /by Ming TangFollowing six successful phases of the Building Safety Analysis with AI / Geospatial Imagery Analytics Research project (2020–2025), funded by the Cincinnati Insurance Companies (CIC), we are pleased to announce the launch of a new research initiative: VISTA – Virtual Immersive Systems for Training AI. VISTA – Phase 2 ($74,368) Project Title: Virtual Immersive Systems […]
Gensler’s AI Award
/in News /by Ming TangSENSE-AI – Developing Spatial Experiences for Narrative and Sensory Emotions with AI. Gensler. AI Excellence in the Design Process Award. PI: Tang. Amount: $100,000. Period: 06, 2026- 06.2027. I’m very grateful to share that UC’s proposal “SENSE-AI: Developing Spatial Experiences for Narrative and Sensory Emotions with AI” has received Gensler’s AI Excellence in the Design […]