His research focuses on techniques and technologies that can enhance virtual reality and human-computer interfaces, with particular interests in locomotion, perception, and cognition. Dr. Suma has co-authored over 70 academic publications, eight of which have been recognized with conference awards, and is a five-time SIGGRAPH presenter. His gesture interaction middleware toolkit (FAAST) has been widely adopted by the research and hobbyist communities, and his online research videos have been viewed over 2.4 million times. He received his Ph.D. in 2010 from the Department of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.