PhD student in Computer Science at University of Southern California, Haptics, Robotics, HCI research advised by Professor Heather Culbertson
Los Angeles, CA
Joined September 2021
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Excited to share that our paper, “Language-Guided Multimodal Texture Authoring via Generative Models,” was accepted to IEEE Haptics Symposium 2026 and received the Distinguished Technical Long Paper Award.
#haptics2026
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📢Time to upgrade your depth camera! Introducing **FoundationStereo**, a foundation model for stereo depth estimation in zero-shot (accepted to CVPR 2025 with full scores) [1/n]
Code: github.com/NVlabs/Foundation…
Website: nvlabs.github.io/FoundationS…
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2501.09898
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Very excited to share with you what our team @theworldlabs has been up to! No matter how one theorizes the idea, it's hard to use words to describe the experience of interacting with 3D scenes generated by a photo or a sentence. Hope you enjoy this blog! 🤩❤️🔥
We’ve been busy building an AI system to generate 3D worlds from a single image. Check out some early results on our site, where you can interact with our scenes directly in the browser!
worldlabs.ai/blog
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The sense of touch is innately private, but what if it could be shared across individuals?
We @StanfordVR studied shared body sensations in VR and found it increases body illusion and empathy toward others and influences social behavior. #ISMAR2024
🔗vhil.stanford.edu/publicatio…
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In the spirit of #UIST2024, a next-level live demo: controlling a shape-changing display (live from Chicago!) via text input in Pittsburgh!
This conference is awesome.
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@MichaelQwl + @JesseGao13 gave a transformative talk, especially with a LIVE DEMO to remotely control the shape display in our lab in UChicago using their system! Thanks to @ChiWang_02 for running the hardware at @AxLab_UChicago !
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In today's Poster Session A, @JesseGao13 & @MichaelQwl will share their exploration and extended vision into 'AI-infused Shape Changing UIs' controlled by touch, gesture, & speech. #UIST2024
'Towards Multimodal Interaction with AI-Infused Shape-Changing Interfaces'
programs.sigchi.org/uist/202…
🚨#UIST2024 Poster: Towards AI-Infused Shape-Changing UIs 👉💬🪄
What if you can point, gesture, and speak to 'summon' any physical shapes?
Another exploration by AxLab, in collab with @UChicagoCS's 3DL, employs Gen-AI to author shape display via multimodal interaction.
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Thanks to everyone who came to @AxLab_UChicago's #UIST2024 demos!
We immensely enjoyed showing our demos to the @ACMUIST community! (Special Thanks to Anup, who couldn't make the conf but significantly contributed to 2 papers, & Chi, who operated the shape display from Chicago!
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Text-to-Shape-Display! Look how we make the shape display live in @AxLab_UChicago ! Thanks all the help from our lab mates and my mom( she enjoys using e-drills though!)
Michael Qian retweeted
🚨#UIST2024 Poster: Towards AI-Infused Shape-Changing UIs 👉💬🪄
What if you can point, gesture, and speak to 'summon' any physical shapes?
Another exploration by AxLab, in collab with @UChicagoCS's 3DL, employs Gen-AI to author shape display via multimodal interaction.
🧵→
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.@AxLab_UChicago will present 3 PAPERS (talk+demo) and 2 POSTERS + be part of 1 WORKSHOP in the #UIST2024 conference next week!
The image below shows them with detailed schedules! We will post the project details in the next few days. We are so excited to present them @ACMUIST!
Proud to announce that I’ll be joining the HARVI Lab as a PhD student this fall! I’m thrilled to work with my advisor, @hmculbertson, and can’t wait for the exciting years ahead!
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We just unveiled Orion, which we believe is the most advanced pair of augmented reality glasses ever made.
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Graduation season is here, and @AxLab_UChicago proudly has 8(!) members departing for their next steps! So much memory with them, building the lab, exhibiting (Ars Electronica/SXSW, etc), writing papers, attending conf, and having fun together (incl. today's T-shirt activity👕
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Our graffiti painting robot is getting better! Slowly but steadily :)
With @florez_jd @fdellaert Seth Hutchinson, Michael Qian
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