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 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
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
- Laval Virtual #Revolute Award Finalist 2026; Laval, France
- DESY VFFD PhD Award, 2025, DESY, Germany
- 3rd Place at World Labs Winter Competition 2026,
- Honorable Mention for the Best Design at the Student Competition, ISMAR, 2023, Sydney, Australia
- Honours Programme for Future Researcher 2020, University of Jena, Germany
Academic Services
Committee/Organizer:
- International Program Committee: IEEE VR 2026, IEEE ISMAR 2026
- Co-organizer: 2nd Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Robotic for Particle Accelerators (AIRA) 2026
- Co-organizer: A Practical Guide on Building Embodied Intelligent Virtual Agent for XR Research and Applications, IEEE VR 2026 Tutorial
- Co-organizer: RF4XR: A Practical Guide to Radiance Fields for XR Research and Applications , IEEE VR 2025 Tutorial
Reviewer:
- IEEE ISMAR 23-25 journal, paper & poster( received special recognition for outstanding review for TVCG journal & paper review 2023)
- IEEE TVCG Journal 23-26
- IEEE VR 24-26
- ACM SIGCHI 25-26
- ACM VRST 23-25
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”