Carolina Cruz-Neira (Fellow, IEEE) is currently the Member of the National Academy of Engineering. She is a Spanish-Venezuelan-American Computer Engineer, Researcher, Designer, Educator, and a Pioneer of virtual reality (VR). She is also an Agere Chair Professor with the University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA. She is known for inventing the cave automatic virtual environment (CAVE). She was with Iowa State University (ISU), Ames, IA, USA, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA, USA, and University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, AR, USA.