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) Vogt-Kölln-Str. 30, Room: F-128 |
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 develops multi-moda l interaction framework for intelligent virtual agents and virtual humans.
Please find her research video demos, code, and papers here.
Research Interests
Ke Li has a strong technical background and research interests in:
- Mixed & Augmented Reality
- Immersive head mounted display
- Computer graphics & computer vision (e.g., NeRF, 3DGS, physics-based simulation)
- Intelligent virtual agents
- Human-robot interaction
If you are interested in the aforementioned topics for a bachelor/master thesis, please reach out!
Awards
“Honorable Mention” Award for the Best Design at the Student Competition at IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), 2023, Sydney, Australia
Academic Services
Ke Li served as reviewer for various premiere international XR conferences & journals, particularly:
- IEEE ISMAR 23 journal, paper & poster
- IEEE ISMAR 24 journal, paper, & poster ( received special recognition for outstanding review for TVCG journal & paper review)
- IEEE ISMAR 25 journal & paper
- ACM VRST 23-25
- IEEE TVCG Journal 23-25
- IEEE VR 24
- ACM SIGCHI 25
In addition, Ke Li is involved in the following conference/workshop:
- Member of the International Program Committee at IEEE VR 2026
- Organizer at 2nd Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Robotic for Particle Accelerators (AIRA)
Invited Talks
01.07.2025: 4th General Assembly of PRESENCE, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Intelligent Virtual Human Tehnology.
01.23.2025: 3th General Assembly of PRESENCE, Porto, Portugal, Intelligent Virtual Human Tehnology.
08.03.2025: Co-organize the tutorial: A Practical Guide to Radiance Fields for XR Research and Applications" at the IEEE VR 2025 conference in St Malo
08.12.2023: 6th Round Table on Deep Learning at DESY, Hamburg, Germany; “ Immersive Neural Graphics for Robot Teleoperation and Remote Inspection at Complex Physics Facilities”.
20.10.2023: Tutorial on Neural Rendering, Sydney, Australia, ISMAR 2023; “3D Gaussian Splatting for Immersive Extended Reality”
27.02.2023: International Conference on Laser Safety (ICLS), Portland, USA; “Mixed Reality for Laser Safety at Advanced Optics Laboratories”
22.11.2022: DESY Science Day, Hamburg, Germany; “Mixed Reality Research for Particle Accelerators”
26.04.2022: 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”