James “Jimmie” Cox

Graduate Researcher, Computer Science · Wright State University

My research at the Terascale All-Sensing Research Studio (TARS) focuses on human–robot collaboration and Extended Reality (XR).

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Publications

Published

2026

Generative Prediction of Transfer Orientation Distributions for Novel Objects in Robot-to-Human Handover

J. Cox, C. Kulathunga, M. Kyrarini, S. Banerjee, N. K. Banerjee

IEEE RO-MAN 2026

2025

Descriptor: Real-World 3D Object, Human Giver, Human Receiver, and Sampled Robot Grasps Dataset (HOH-Grasps)

X. Song, J. Cox, S. Banerjee, N. K. Banerjee

IEEE Data Descriptions

Under Review

2027

Seeing What the Robot Understood: Visualizing Large Vision-Language and Speech Model Agreement for Collaborative Tasks in Mixed Reality

J. Cox, C. Kulathunga, N. Hertlein, S. Banerjee, N. K. Banerjee

IEEE AIxVR 2027 Work in progress

2027

Forgenie: Using Extended Reality (XR) to Perform Multi-Component Scene and Object Builds from AI-Generated 3D Models

J. Cox, E. Ibragimov, C. Kulathunga, S. Banerjee, N. K. Banerjee

IEEE AIxVR 2027 Work in progress

Experience

2025–present

Raider Technologies LLC · Associate Software Engineer

December 2025 – present · Dayton, Ohio

2025–present

Terascale All-Sensing Research Studio · Researcher

August 2025 – present · Dayton, Ohio

2023–25

WSU CaTS IT Help Desk · Senior IT Help Desk Employee

January 2023 – December 2025 · Dayton, Ohio

Supported students, faculty, and staff across Wright State’s IT services, troubleshooting hardware and software issues in person, by phone, and through BeyondTrust remote sessions.

2022

Heroux Devtek · Mechanical Engineering Intern

June 2022 – August 2022 · Springfield, Ohio

Designed 3D animated work instructions in 3DVIA for the production floor, and catalogued previously undocumented landing gear parts for the F-35, C-130, B-1B, F-18, F-15, and Boeing 737.

Personal Projects

2025

Wright State Main Campus Mapping

Intro to Software Engineering · Team Project (3)

Indoor wayfinding for the Wright State main campus, built in Godot. Designed the UI and the alphabet-trie data structure holding room location nodes, plus the informational node system that surfaces room and building details on click.

2025

Floor Plan OCR Pipeline

Intro to Software Engineering

Python pipeline converting PDF floor plans to images with Poppler, then extracting room numbers and their coordinates with Tesseract. Output fed the campus mapping project’s node graph.

Education

2027

Ph.D. Computer Science · Wright State University

Starting Fall 2027.

2027

M.S. Computer Science · Wright State University

In progress, expected Spring 2027.

2025

B.S. Computer Science · Wright State University

Completed Fall 2025.

Funding & Awards

2026–27

DAGSI Fellowship

Summer 2026 – Spring 2027

Supporting DAGSI call RX26-12, “Human-Robot Collaboration for Manufacturing through Natural Interactions.”

Side Work

Run alongside my research and professional work.

2026–present

Little Astra Games · Founder

Dayton, Ohio

A local indie game development studio making cozy role-playing games. Our flagship game, Atomic Oasis, is on Steam.

2026–present

Freelance Web Development

Dayton, Ohio

I have built and managed websites for clients including Raider Technologies and Charlies Pizzas.

Writing

Explainers published on Medium.

Overfitting vs. Underfitting Medium Supervised vs. Unsupervised vs. Reinforcement Learning Medium Gradient Descent: Stochastic, Batch, and Mini-Batch Medium

Contact

Reach me at cox.366@wright.edu.