New subject: [nrg] Demo Schedule for Dr. Yang Li' DGP Visit

29 Mar 2016


      Hi Mingming,
Do you want to have a chat with Dr. Yang Li?
Thanks,
Haijun
From: Haijun Xia [mailto:haijunxia@dgp.toronto.edu] 
Sent: Monday, March 28, 2016 7:59 PM
To: 'hci@dgp.toronto.edu' hci@dgp.toronto.edu; 'graphics@dgp.toronto.edu'
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Subject: RE: Demo Schedule for Dr. Yang Li' DGP Visit
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
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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  http://english.cas.ac.cn/ Chinese Academy of
Sciences, and conducted postdoctoral research in
http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/ EECS at the http://www.berkeley.edu/
University 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  http://yangl.org/pdf/gesturesearch-uist2010.pdf gestures and
http://youtu.be/JJSZGdMYV9s cameras),
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGqn1FQRQPQ cross-device
http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2013/09/projecting-without-projector-sha
ring.html interaction and  http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2647355
predictive user interfaces. Yang wrote
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.gestu
research&hl=en Gesture Search, a popular Android app for random access of
mobile content using gestures. Yang develops  http://youtu.be/8OXExn29OTE
software tool support and  http://yangl.org/pdf/protractor-chi2010.pdf
recognition methods by drawing insights from
http://yangl.org/pdf/motiongestures-chi2011.pdf user behaviors, and
leveraging techniques such as machine learning, computer vision and
http://yangl.org/pdf/crowdlearner.pdf crowdsourcing to make complex tasks
simple and intuitive.

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