Hemant Surale, PhD

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Hemant is an HCI+AI Scientist. His main research interests include Mixed Reality Interfaces (MR), Wearable Computing (Rings and Wristbands), Input Interactions (Gestural interfaces), and Applied AI (Computer Vision).

He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo, Canada. He was advised by Daniel Vogel, Mark Hancock, and Edward Lank. He has been awarded with the David R. Cheriton Graduate Scholarship three time, IDSA, CS achievement, and the Snap Research Fellowship.

He led/leading impactful research at Meta, Microsoft, Snap, Google/North, and NetApp R&D departments bridging theory and practice. He is passionate about maximizing productivity through user interface design, AI-integrated development, and empirical evaluation, particularly emphasizing fundamental concepts like modes and mode-switching to establish practical design principles for diverse MR applications.

news

Aug 24, 2024	Our interns, Shwetha, Ruei-Che, and Judy submitted menuscripts to CHI’25.
May 28, 2024	Two of our intern papers on text-entry topic got conditionally accepted at ISMAR’24.
Jan 26, 2024	Our intern Junxiao (Shawn) is off to start an assistant professor position at the University of Bristol, UK. Congrats!!
Jun 26, 2023	Our intern Taejun presented the STAR paper at UIST’23.

selected publications

Gesture2Text: A Generalizable Decoder for Word-Gesture Keyboards in XR Through Trajectory Coarse Discretization and Pre-training

Junxiao Shen, Khadija Khaldi, Enmin Zhou, and 2 more authors

In Proceedings of the IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2024

Bib PDF

@inproceedings{shen2024Gesture2Text,
  author = {Shen, Junxiao and Khaldi, Khadija and Zhou, Enmin and Surale, Hemant Bhaskar and Karlson, Amy},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics},
  pages = {1--13},
  year = {2024},
}

RingGesture: A Ring-Based Mid-Air Gesture Typing System Powered by a Deep-Learning Word Prediction Framework

Junxiao Shen, Roger Boldu, Arpit Kalla, and 3 more authors

In Proceedings of the IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2024

Bib PDF

@inproceedings{shen2024RingGesture,
  title = {RingGesture: A Ring-Based Mid-Air Gesture Typing System Powered by a Deep-Learning Word Prediction Framework},
  author = {Shen, Junxiao and Boldu, Roger and Kalla, Arpit and Glueck, Michael and Surale, Hemant Bhaskar and Karlson, Amy},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics},
  pages = {1--13},
  year = {2024},
}