I am Xiang Li, a Year 1 PhD student in Intelligent Interactive Systems at the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, under the supervision of Per Ola Kristensson. I am also a Student Fellow at The Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (LCFI). I was a Visiting Ph.D. scholar at the Center for Metaverse and Computational Creativity, HKUST (Guangzhou) in 2022, working with Pan Hui. I received my B.Sc. (Honors) from Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in China & the University of Liverpool in the UK. I finished my Bachelor Honors Dissertation at the X-CHI Lab, advised by Hai-Ning Liang, and previously worked with Wenge Xu. Besides, I have worked with Jan Gugenheimer and David Lindlbauer at the Institute Polytechnique de Paris (Télécom Paris) and Carnegie Mellon University, and Florian ‘Floyd’ Mueller at the Exertion Games Lab, Monash University.

My research interest lies in Human-Computer Interaction, at the intersection of Mixed Reality, Bodily Interfaces, Sensing Technologies, and Computational Interaction. I aim to focus my PhD studies on understanding the relationship between human bodies and the digital environment, and concurrently creating new interactive systems that augment a wide range of perceptions via computational interaction methods, which I believe are crucial for the successful Integration or even the Fusion of Human-Computer Interaction.