Dr. Ke Li
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Dr. Ke LiResearch Associate E-Mail: ke.li"AT"uni-hamburg.de Office hours: By arrangement (please send me an e-mail) Bundesstraße 56B, Room: 05-635 |
Short Bio
Ke Li received her Bachelor's of Science degree in Physics from Centre College (USA) in May 2018 and her Master's degree in Optics and Photonics from the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (Germany) in April 2021.
She joined the HCI group in July 2021 and was a PhD fellow at the Helmholtz Graduate School for the Structure of Matter (DASHH).
In October 2024, she successfully defended her dissertation entitled "Towards a Particle Accelerator Metaverse: Mixed Reality Interfaces for Operations of Complex Physics Facilities".
Afterwards, she started working as a postdoctoral researcher within the European Union funded project PRESENCE, where she leads the WP4 Virtual Human technical pillar and leads the development of a multi-moda l interaction framework for intelligent virtual agents.
Please find her research video demos, code, and papers here.
Research Interests
- Mixed & Augmented Reality
- Immersive head mounted display
- Computer graphics & computer vision
- Intelligent virtual agents
- Human-robot interaction
If you are interested in the aforementioned topics for a bachelor/master thesis, please reach out!
Awards
- DESY VFFD PhD Award, 2025, DESY, Germany
- Laval Virtual #Revolute Award Finalist 2026; Laval, France
- Honorable Mention at 1st World Labs Game Jam, 2026.
- 3rd Place at World Labs Winter Competition 2026,
- Special recognition for outstanding review at TVCG and IEEE ISMAR 2023
- Honorable Mention for the Best Design at the Student Competition, ISMAR, 2023, Sydney, Australia
- Honours Programme for Future Researcher 2020, University of Jena, Germany
Grant Acquisitions (Funded)
- EU Horizon Innovation Action 2027-2029: OmenXR : On-the-fly MultisEnsory collaboratioN in eXtended Reality (Coordinated by INRIA); contributed to 757,000 Euros out of 5.5M
- PIER SEED Project Grant 2026-2028: "The Living Laboratory: Towards Human-AI Synergy in Ultrafast Photon Science Experiments") ; 20,000 Euros
- PIER Workshop Grant 2026-2027; 8,000 Euros
Academic Services
- International Program Committee: IEEE VR 26' - 27', IEEE ISMAR 26
- Organizer: Hype-XR: 1 st Workshop on Hyperrealism in XR in the Era of Radiance Fields at IEEE ISMAR 26
- Organizer: 2nd Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Robotic for Particle Accelerators (AIRA)
- Organizer: A Practical Guide on Building Embodied Intelligent Virtual Agent for XR Research and Applications, IEEE VR 2026 Tutorial
- Organizer: RF4XR: A Practical Guide to Radiance Fields for XR Research and Applications , IEEE VR 2025 Tutorial
- Reviewer at SIGCHI, IEEE VR, IEEE ISMAR, and TVCG since 2023
Invited Talks/Events
- 10.2026: Invited as a speaker at the VR Summit (“Towards a Particle Accelerator Metaverse: eXtended Reality Mediated Human Agent and Human Robot Collaborations at Large-scale Critical Infrastructures”) in Bochum, Germany.
- 06.2026: Invited to and attended the Dagstuhl Seminar 26262 “Virtual Bodies for Real Humans – Avatars, Sensations, Emotions and Brains”.
- 06.2026: Invited talk “Dreaming in Space with AI” at the Surreality 2.0 MRxAI exhibition in Hong Kong and Guangzhou, China.
- 05.2026: Invited demo of an intelligent virtual agent at the Conference on Human Rights in Immersive Realities (XR) at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France.
- 05.2026: Invited talk at the HIDA PhD Kick-off Days in Berlin (HIDA: Helmholtz Information & Data Science Academy), reflecting on my PhD journey and academic career so far. See the full extended interview here.
- 04.2026: Nomination for the Laval Virtual Award 2026 in the Developer and Authoring Toolkits category.
- 07.2025: 4th General Assembly of PRESENCE, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Intelligent Virtual Human Tehnology.
- 01.2025: 3th General Assembly of PRESENCE, Porto, Portugal, Intelligent Virtual Human Tehnology.
- 03.2025: Co-organize the tutorial: A Practical Guide to Radiance Fields for XR Research and Applications at the IEEE VR 2025 conference in St Malo
- 12.2023: 6th Round Table on Deep Learning at DESY, Hamburg, Germany; “Immersive Neural Graphics for Robot Teleoperation and Remote Inspection at Complex Physics Facilities”.
- 10.2023: Tutorial on Neural Rendering, Sydney, Australia, ISMAR 2023; “3D Gaussian Splatting for Immersive Extended Reality”
- 02.2023: International Conference on Laser Safety (ICLS), Portland, USA; “Mixed Reality for Laser Safety at Advanced Optics Laboratories”
- 11.2022: DESY Science Day, Hamburg, Germany; “Mixed Reality Research for Particle Accelerators”
- 04.2022: Opening Symposium for Center for Data and Computing in Natural Sciences (CDCS), Hamburg, Germany; “Taming Cyclops: Mixed Reality Head-Mounted Displays as Laser Safety Goggles for High-energy Optics Laboratories”