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Doctor of Philosophy

University of Queensland, Australia

Bachelor of Computer Science Advanced (Honours)

Monash University, Australia

• WAM: 3.87/4.00
• Awards:
  • Dux of Undergraduate in The Bachelor of Computer Science Advanced (Honours)
  • Australian Computer Society (ACS) Victoria Student Award (Nominated)
  • Faculty Commendation for FIT2082, Semester 2, 2020 (Awarded to the student who has achieved the highest grade in unit FIT2082, Computer science research project)
• GRE Score: 323+4.0
• Honours Year Research Thesis. GestureExplorer - Supporting Immersive Visualisation and Exploration of Gesture Data (8946 words)

GestureExplorer: Immersive Visualisation and Exploration of Gesture Data

Supervisor: Barrett Ens, Max Cordeil

• Sifted through existing literature, summarised, synthesised and assessed the existing visualisation approaches for gesture elicitation study
• Applied advanced techniques in Unity and VR development, implemented a system for gesture analysis and exploration
• Established a backend in python to support k-means and mean shift clustering, dimensional reduction with PCA and MDS, calculation of dynamic time warping distance for pattern identification of gesture data
• Conducted user studies among recruited participants to evaluate the developed visualisations and features and made improvements based on the feedback
• Proposed a research poster, a research demonstration and a research paper using LaTex and submitted them to top-tier conferences
• The research outcome of this project includes three conference publications listed below:
  • A. Li, J. Liu, M. Cordeil and B. Ens, 'Initial Evaluation of Immersive Gesture Exploration with GestureExplorer,' 2022 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW), 2022, pp. 580-581, doi: 10.1109/VRW55335.2022.00141.
  • A. Li, J. Liu, M. Cordeil and B. Ens, 'Demonstrating Immersive Gesture Exploration with GestureExplorer,' 2022 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW), 2022, pp. 980-981, doi: 10.1109/VRW55335.2022.00341.
  • A. Li, J. Liu, M. Cordeil and B. Ens, 'GestureExplorer: Immersive Visualisation and Exploration of Gesture Data,' In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, doi: 10.1145/3544548.3580678.

• University of Queensland Research Higher Degree Scholarship
• University of Queensland Research Training Scholarship

• SIGCHI Gary Marsden Travel Awards (GMTA)

• IEEE VR 2022 Conference-The Honourable Mention for the Best Demo Award

An Immersive Expressive Avatar for Health Context Awareness

Supervisor: Barrett Ens

• Developed new techniques for extracting emotional features from human actors and mapping these to various virtual avatars. The avatars respond to different emotional inputs detected from human users and were deployed in AR using Vuforia and Unity

AR Hand Gesture Capture for Interactive Data Analytics

Supervisor: Barrett Ens, Maxime Cordeil

• Developed a tool in Unity assisted with the visualisation and analysis of hand gesture data, in order to find out what are the bare hand gestures we could use in augmented reality to fully support data visualisation tasks

Barriers to Telehealth Accessibility Among Elderly Chinese Migrants in Australia

• Conducted a cross-discipline research by surveying groups of elderly Chinese migrants in the greater Melbourne area about the obstacles encountered when accessing Telehealth services. Proposed and articulated solutions corresponding to the obstacles

Monash Hackathon 2019-Team Member

• Designed and implemented a mobile app in React for students to schedule meetups, helping them connect to people of similar interests and acquire new skills