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Mikhail Fominykh is a researcher, developer, entrepreneur and enthusiast in the area of immersive technology-enhanced learning. Mikhail holds a researcher position at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology - NTNU, Norway. At NTNU and previously at other organizations, Mikhail has been working as a project coordinator or as a technical coordinator in several nationally- and EU-funded projects, including AR-FOR-EU https://codereality.net/, DC4LT https://www.dc4lt.eu/, DETEL https://ea-tel.eu/de-tel/, VR-Learn https://www.vrlearn.no/, eROBSON https://e-robson.eu/, VR4VET https://www.vr4vet.eu/, and ARIDLL https://aridll.eu/.
Mikhail developed an original Augmented Reality training concept, which was implemented in the Horizon 2020 WEKIT project (2015-2019 https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/687669), working as a project manager at Europlan UK ltd, UK. Mikhail is now one of the directors at a tech startup WEKIT Experience Capturing Solutions, Ireland https://wekit-ecs.com/.
In 2012, Mikhail received a PhD degree from the Faculty of Information Technology, Mathematics and Electrical Engineering at NTNU, Norway. He published in several journals and books, and presented research findings at over 90 academic conferences.