Biography

I’m a research scientist at Adobe’s Creative Intelligence Lab, San Francisco, California.

I received my PhD in Computer Science in 2017. I am advised by Professor Feng Liu in the Computer Graphics & Vision Lab at Portland State University.

My research lies at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction and VR/AR. I’m interested in building new interfaces for content creation in virtual and augmented reality, viewing and editing video, new forms of learning, and collaboration technologies. My research has received Best Paper Honorable Mention awards at ACM CHI 2013, 2015, and 2017. Some of these work were demoed live at Adobe MAX Sneaks 2017 (#CloverVR) and 2019 (#ProjectPronto).

My PhD’s dissertation explores 360 degree video authoring tools in VR. I helped ship some parts of this work into Adobe Premiere and After Effects.

[CV (updated Jan 2020)]

Updates:

⁵⁄₂₀₂₁: I’ll be attending CHI virtually. Feel free to reach out to chat. I’m always eager to talk about potential internship & collaboration opportunites.

⁴⁄₂₀₂₁: Invited to speak at various graduate level HCI & computational video classes at University of British Columbia (from Prof. Dongwook Yoon), Yale University (from Prof. Julie Dorsey), and Portland State Universit (from my former PhD advisor Prof. Feng Liu).

1/5/2021: One AR paper accepted to CHI 20201 We explored using 3D scanning to enable remote AR authoring.

11/20/2020: Presented a talk titled “On-device creative authoring for virtual and augmented reality” at the George Mason University’s Distinguished Lecture Series.

6/22/2020: Two VR papers accepted to UIST 2020.

2/3/2020: One paper accepted to CHI 2020 and one paper accepted to IEEE VR 2020 (conference track).

1/2/2020: On paternity leave until end of April for my second son Irvin!

12/6/2019: Served as AC for the CHI 2020 Engineering Interactive Systems and Technologies subcommittee.

11/5/2019: I demoed our latest AR research #ProjectPronto at Adobe Max 2019. Hey I’m also looking for research interns next summer to work on AR/VR. Please reach out!

10/20/2019: Attending UIST 2019 in New Orleans.

08/02/2019: Our paper on asynchronous VR collaboration has been accepted to CSCW 2019. ACM link (Open Access). Caitlin put together a nice summary of her contributions to the project, awesome work Kevin & Caitlin!

12/10/2018: Our paper “Tutorivr: A video-based tutorial system for design applications in Virtual Reality” has been accepted to CHI 2019.

11/06/2018: I’ll give a HCI seminar talk titled “Designing In-Headset Authoring Tools for Virtual Reality Video” at UC Berkeley (on ¹¹⁄₆) and Stanford (on ¹¹⁄₇).

10/29/2018: Attending XRDC in San Francisco.

04/22/2018: I’ll be attending CHI 2018 remotely on Sunday (April 22) and Monday (April 23). Say hi to my Beam robot! :-)

04/03/2018: Parts of our CHI 2017 paper on VR video editing have been integrated into Premiere Pro (via vrscout).

Collaborators:

Feng Liu (Portland State University)

Wu-chi Feng (Portland State University)

Stephen DiVerdi (Adobe)

Aaron Hertzmann (Adobe)

Dongwook Yoon (University of British Columbia)