A reminder of scheduling a demo for Dr. Yang Li. Many of you are working on submissions.. but please do consider the benefits of exposing your exciting work to the best researcher in our field and making connections to Google Research.

 

Thanks,

Haijun

 

From: Haijun Xia [mailto:haijunxia@dgp.toronto.edu]
Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2016 3:56 PM
To: 'hci@dgp.toronto.edu' <hci@dgp.toronto.edu>; 'graphics@dgp.toronto.edu' <graphics@dgp.toronto.edu>
Subject: Demo Schedule for Dr. Yang Li' DGP Visit

 

Good afternoon everyone,

 

Dr. Yang Li is visiting our lab on Wednesday, April 6th after his TUX talk on Tuesday. I am putting together the demo schedule for him.  His will be seeing demos at10:30 am - 12 am and 2:15pm – 5pm. Please let me know by Monday night if you want to give a demo with the time you prefer.

 

Thanks,

Haijun

 

 

You can find his bio here:

Yang Li is a Senior Research Scientist in Human Computer Interaction and Mobile Computing at Google. He leads the Predictive User Interfaces group at Google. He is also an affiliate faculty member in Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. He earned a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and conducted postdoctoral research in EECS at theUniversity of California at Berkeley. He has published over 50 papers in the field of Human Computer Interaction, including 29 publications at CHI, UIST and TOCHI. He has constantly served on the program committees of top-tier HCI and mobile computing conferences.

Yang’s research focuses on novel tools and methods for creating mobile interaction behaviors, particularly regarding emerging input modalities (such as gestures and cameras), cross-device interaction and predictive user interfaces. Yang wrote Gesture Search, a popular Android app for random access of mobile content using gestures. Yang develops software tool support and recognition methods by drawing insights from user behaviors, and leveraging techniques such as machine learning, computer vision and crowdsourcing to make complex tasks simple and intuitive.