News & Activities
News & Updates
06.2026: Our workshop hype-XR (Hybrid Photorealistic Environments for XR) was accepted at IEEE ISMAR 2026! Co-organized with Shohei Mori, Mana Masuda, and Susanne Schmidt.
06.2026: I will give a keynote talk “Dreaming in Space with AI” at the Surreality 2.0 MRxAI exhibition in Hong Kong and Guangzhou.
05.2026: Gave an invited demo of an intelligent virtual agent built with Gemini Live Agent and RAG at the Conference on Human Rights in Immersive Realities (XR) at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France. Contributed to discussions on human rights in the metaverse.
05.2026: Gave an 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: Our anthropomorphic AI toolkit was nominated for the Laval Virtual Award 2026 in the Developer and Authoring Toolkits category. It was also simultaneously accepted in the #Revolution category, where we won a free exhibition slot in Laval, France.
04.2026: Gave an invited keynote talk at the Shenzhen University School of Design and Art, titled “Dreaming with AI” (on generative AI, world models, and 3D Gaussian Splatting).
03.2026: Submission of the first version of my indie game Dreamcore Walking Simulator to the 1st World Lab Game Jam received an Honorable Mention, following my earlier submission Snow After Us to the winter competition which received 3rd place.
03.2026: Co-organized and held a tutorial at IEEE VR 2026 with more than 40 participants. Had a great time in Daegu!
01.2026: 1 TVCG paper and 1 Tutorial accepted at IEEE VR 2026! See you in Korea!
09.2025-01.2026: served on the international program committee at IEEE VR 26. Thank you very much for your trust!
10.2025-12.2025: conducted a research stay at the HIT Lab in Christchurch, New Zealand. Thank you for hosting me!
05.11.2025: I received the DESY VFFD PhD award this year for my PhD dissertation “Towards a Particle Accelerator Metaverse”! What a great honor!
19.08.2025: Three contributions accepted/ to appear at IEEE ISMAR 2025! See you in South Korea!
- TVCG (8% acceptance rate): Radiance Fields in XR: A Survey on How Radiance Fields are Envisioned and Addressed for XR Research
- Research demo: A Conversational Virtual Agent with Physics-based Interactive Behaviour (Come and check out the first embodied anthropomorphic intelligent virtual agent that can react to real-time physics-based events in standalone immersive VR experiences!)
- UNAI workshop paper: Nuance in Non-Verbal Communication: How Emotional Granularity Impacts Perception of Intelligent Virtual Agents in Virtual Reality
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
06.2026: Surreality 2.0 MRxAI Exhibition, Hong Kong & Guangzhou, China; Keynote: “Dreaming in Space with AI”.
05.2026: Conference on Human Rights in Immersive Realities (XR), Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France; invited demo of an intelligent virtual agent built with Gemini Live Agent and RAG.
05.2026: HIDA PhD Kick-off Days, Berlin, Germany; Reflections on my PhD Journey and Academic Career.
04.2026: Shenzhen University, School of Design and Art, Shenzhen, China; Keynote: “Dreaming with AI” — on generative AI, world models, and 3D Gaussian Splatting.
03.2026: IVAS Tutorial at IEEE VR 2026, Daegu, South Korea; Intelligent Virtual Agent Systems.
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: RF4XR Tutorial at IEEE VR 2025, A Practical Guide to Radiance Fields for XR Research and Applications
11.11.2024: University of Stuttgart, VISUS group, Towards a Particle Accelerator Metaverse: Developing Mixed Reality Technology for Operations of Complex Physics Facilities.
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”