About me 👩‍💻

I am a mixed reality researcher with a strong technical background and research interests in:

• 🕹️ Mixed reality technology
• 🥽 Immersive head mounted display
• 🖥️ Immersive radiance field rendering (e.g., NeRF, 3DGS)
• 👾 Embodied intelligent virtual agents
• 🤖 Human–robot interaction

I am currently working as a postdoctoral researcher on the European Union–funded project PRESENCE, where I serve on the technical committee and lead the development of intelligent virtual human technologies. My work focuses in particular on enabling multimodal interaction with virtual agents in immersive environments.

I completed my Ph.D. as a fellow of the Helmholtz Graduate School for the Structure of Matter (DASHH), under the supervision of Prof. Frank Steinicke, Dr. Reinhard Bacher, and Prof. Wim Leemans. My research was conducted at the intersection of: The Particle Accelerator Control Systems Group at the German Electron Synchrotron (DESY) and the Human–Computer Interaction Group at the University of Hamburg During my PhD, I developed novel mixed reality technologies for operating large-scale physics infrastructures, including building video see-through head mounted displays, developing immersive neural rendering/radiance field rendering techniques, building a mobile robot and it’s immersive teleoperation system.

Before joining DASHH, I earned my M.Sc. in Photonics from the Abbe School of Photonics, where I received extensive training in both theoretical and applied optics. During this time, I worked as a research assistant at the*German Aerospace Center (DLR) – Institute of Data Science and the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering.

💼 I am actively exploring opportunities for roles such as Research Scientist, Research Engineer, or Mixed/Virtual Reality Developer—in both academic and industry settings.

💡 I’m always open to collaborations, expanding my network, and contributing to exciting projects in mixed reality, visual computing, computer graphics, and AI research.

📫 Contact: keli95566@gmail.com
🔗 GitHub: github.com/keli95566

News & Updates

08.03.2025: Presented the technical demo: I Hear, See, Speak & Do: Bringing Multimodal Information Processing to Intelligent Virtual Agents for Natural Human-AI Communication where over 50 participants spoke and interacted with an intelligent virtual agent representing myself in immersive VR!

08.03.2025: Presented one paper: A Toolkit for Creating Intelligent Virtual Humans in Extended Reality at IEEE Virtual Reality 9th Workshop on Virtual Humans and Crowds in Immersive Environments (VHCIE).

08.03.2025: Organized and presented a tutorial A Practical Guide to Radiance Fields for XR Research and Applications at the IEEE VR 2025 conference together with Dr.Shohei Mori from VISUS, University of Stuttgart and Dr. Mana Masuda from Keio University, Japan. Thank you everyone for joining!

01.11.2024: Started a postdoctoral position at the University of Hamburg, working on the European Union funded project PRESENCE.

24.10.2024: Successfully defended my dissertation magna cum laude: “Towards a particle accelerator metaverse: mixed reality technology for operations of complex physics facilities”! 🎉🎉🎉

14.10.2024: Attended IROS 2024 conference and gave a talk about reality fusion in the sensor fusion oral session. It was great to meet everyone in Abu Dhabi!

30.06.2024: One paper accepted to IROS 2024 as oral presentation! See you in Abu Dhabi!

15.01.2024: Started a short research stay at the Cyber Interface Lab at the University of Tokyo, Japan, working on a robot telepresence system. Thank you Prof.Kuzuoka for hosting me!

20.10.2023: RealityGit received the Honorable Mention for Best Student Design Award at ISMAR 2023. Congratulations to my team!

30.08.2023: Checkout the article by NeRF.io about our Magic NeRF Lens paper. Thank you for sharing news about our work!

15.08.2023: VRS-NeRF was accepted to ISMAR 2023 conference track! RealityGit was accepted to ISMAR student design competition finalist. Stay tune for our presentations & demo in Australia. :)

20.01.2023: Immersive-ngp will appear at IEEE VR 2023 research demo & poster session.

22.11.2022: My PhD project was featured at the DESY Science Day as scientific highlight.

15.10.2022: Attended my first international conference and presented two papers at the IEEE International Conference on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR 2022) in Singapore.

01.09.2022: Presented my master thesis Single Shot Phase Shift 3D Scanning with Convolutional Neural Network and Synthetic Fractals at the 2022 Eurographics Symposium on 3D Object Retrieval in Florence, Italy.

Invited Talks

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”.

28.11.2023: User Interface and System Technology (UIST) Invited Lecture at Hamburg University; Hamburg, Germany; “3D Reconstruction & 3D Representations”

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”