Research Group

Lab members

Bei Xiao, PHD. Principal Investigator.

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science

Website

Chenxi Liao, Graduate Student. Behavior , Cognition, and Neuroscience Graduate Program.

Perception of color and translucent material properties. Material editing.

Michael Renisch, Visiting Master Student, Computer Science, University of Graz, Austria.

Predicting Clinical Trial Phase Transition using Language Modeling.

Yu-yu Chen, Data Science Graduate Student, American University

Intuitive Physics in VR/AR.

Lab Alumni

- - Jesse Shhwarz, Undergraduate Researhcer, 2021-2023.
  - Gaurav Kumar, Summer Research Intern from IIT India. Currently graduate student at UCSD.
  - Marty Jiffer, Summer Research Intern from University of Chicago. Currently cybertechnology specialist at Darktrace.
  - Laysa Hejar, PhD in neuroscience. Currently Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Giessen, Germany.
  - Evan Jeing, Undergraduate Research Assistant. Currently working at North East Medical Services, California.
  - Wenyan, Bi, PhD student. Currently Postdoc at Yale University. PhD Thesis: VISUAL INFERENCE OF MATERIAL PROPERTIES OF DEFORMABLE OBJECTS IN DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTS
  - Audery (George) Gu, Contemporary and Emerging Media and CS minor. Research assistant. Designer, Polytopal.
  - William Kistler, MA, American University. Currently Research Assistant & Scientific Programmer. Now at NIH.
  - Simin Li. High School Student Researcher, Montgomery Blair High School. Machine learning. Currently undergraduate student at University of Maryland .
  - Alex Perepechko, Senior, CS & Audio Technology major, American University. Now at OST.
  - Laura Uribe, Senior, CS major, American University. Now at Adobe.
  - Yuuki Kpa, Sophomore, CS & Neuroscience double major, American University.
  - Luis Bermudez, BS, Carnegie Mellon University. Research Assistant & Scientific Programmer. Now PhD student at Clemson University.
  - Abhinav Swaminathan, Freshman, CS major, American University. Computer graphics.
  - Eric Whipp, Senior, Computer Science. Haptic device and VR.

Collaborators

Over the years, I have been very fortunate to work together and learn from a big group of collaborators:

- Masataka Sawayama, The University of Tokyo
- Jianfeng He, Virginia Tech
- Hendrikje Nienborg, NIH/NEI
- Maarten Wijntjes, TU Delft
- Ted Adelson, MIT
- Ruth Rosentholtz, MIT
- Kavita Bala, Cornell
- Todd Zickler, Harvard
- Bruce Walter, Cornell
- Ioannis Gkioulekas, CMU
- Katie Bouman, Caltech
- Lavanya Sharan, Netflix
- Derya Akkayanak, Princeton
- Shuang Zhao, UC Irvine
- Xiaodan Jia, Apple
- Alex Wade, University of York, UK
- David Brainard, University of Pennsylvania