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Xun Qian is a research scientist at Google AR, dedicated to advancing end-to-end interactive systems across a wide range of Extended Reality (XR) experiences, including multimodal input modalities, augmented communication, context awareness, and intelligent agents.

 

Before joining Google, Xun obtained his Ph.D. at Purdue University, advised by Dr. Karthik RamaniDuring his Ph.D., Xun conducted research in the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) area, where he developed interactive XR systems leveraging the contexts of humans and surroundings perceived by state-of-the-art AI techniques.

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News:

  • Served as the Associate Chair of the UIST 2025 program committee.

  • January 16, 2025: InstructPipe was conditionally accepted at CHI 2025!

  • Served as the Associate Chair of the CHI 2025 Computational Interaction subcommittee.

Research Trajectory

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Featured Research

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ARnnotate UIST2022

An Augmented Reality Interface for Collecting Custom Dataset of 3D Hand-Object Interaction Pose Estimation

ScalAR CHI2022

Authoring Semantically Adaptive Augmented Reality Experiences in Virtual Reality

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GesturAR UIST2021

An Authoring System for Creating Freehand Interactive Augmented Reality Applications

(Honorable Mention)

AdapTutAR CHI2021

An Adaptive Tutoring System for Machine Tasks in Augmented Reality

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CAPturAR UIST2020

An Augmented Reality Tool for Authoring Human-Involved Context-Aware Applications

©2025 by Xun Qian

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