Ryo Suzuki | University of Calgary Assistant Professor

Ryo Suzuki
University of Calgary, Assistant Professor in Computer Science

I am an Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary in the Department of Computer Science, starting in Winter 2021. I am part of HCI Group at UCalgary.

I am actively looking for PhDs, masters, postdocs, or interns, who are interested in joining or collaborating with us, across disciplines (e.g., Industrial Design, Mechanical Engineering, Material Science, Electrical Engineering, Architectural Design, and Computer Science). If you are interested, please feel free to send me an email. We could start from some possible collaborative projects. :)

My research interest lies on the intersection at Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Robotics. I direct Programmable Reality Lab at the University of Calgary, where we try to blend digital and physical worlds by exploring novel interactions for AR/VR, tangible, and shape-changing interfaces.

Previously, I was a PhD student at the University of Colorado Boulder, advised by Daniel Leithinger and Mark D. Gross in THING Lab and Human-Computer Interaction Group

Full Papers

Sketched RealityUIST 2022

Sketching Bi-Directional Interactions Between Virtual and Physical Worlds with AR and Actuated Tangible UI

Hiroki Kaimoto, Kyzyl Monteiro, Mehrad Faridan, Jiatong Li, Samin Farajian, Yasuaki Kakehi, Ken Nakagaki, Ryo Suzuki  

MixelsUIST 2022

Fabricating Interfaces using Programmable Magnetic Pixels

Martin Nisser, Yashaswini Makaram, Lucian Covarrubias, Amadou Yaye Bah, Faraz Faruqi, Ryo Suzuki, Stefanie Mueller  

RoomShiftCHI 2020

Room-scale Dynamic Haptics for VR with Furniture-moving Swarm Robots

Ryo Suzuki, Hooman Hedayati, Clement Zheng, James Bohn, Daniel Szafir, Ellen Yi-Luen Do, Mark D Gross, Daniel Leithinger  

ShapeBotsUIST 2019

Shape-changing Swarm Robots

Ryo Suzuki, Clement Zheng, Yasuaki Kakehi, Tom Yeh, Ellen Yi-Luen Do, Mark D. Gross, Daniel Leithinger  

MorphIODIS 2019Best Paper Award

Entirely Soft Sensing and Actuation Modules for Programming Shape Changes through Tangible Interaction

Ryosuke Nakayama*, Ryo Suzuki*, Satoshi Nakamaru, Ryuma Niiyama, Yoshihiro Kawahara, Yasuaki Kakehi   (the first two authors equally contributed)

DynablockUIST 2018

Dynamic 3D Printing for Instant and Reconstructable Shape Formation

Ryo Suzuki, Junichi Yamaoka, Daniel Leithinger, Tom Yeh, Mark D. Gross, Yoshihiro Kawahara, Yasuaki Kakehi  

TraceDiffVL/HCC 2017

Debugging Unexpected Code Behavior Using Trace Divergences

Ryo Suzuki, Gustavo Soares, Andrew Head, Elena Glassman, Ruan Reis, Melina Mongiovi, Loris D’Antoni, Bjöern Hartmann  

Mixed-Initiative Code FeedbackL@S 2017

Writing Reusable Code Feedback at Scale with Mixed-Initiative Program Synthesis

Andrew Head, Elena Glassman, Gustavo Soares, Ryo Suzuki, Lucas Figueredo, Loris D’Antoni, Björn Hartmann   (the first three authors equally contributed)

RefazerICSE 2017

Learning Syntactic Program Transformations from Examples

Reudismam Rolim, Gustavo Soares, Loris D'Antoni, Oleksandr Polozov, Sumit Gulwani, Rohit Gheyi, Ryo Suzuki, Björn Hartmann  

AtelierCHI 2016

Repurposing Expert Crowdsourcing Tasks as Micro-internships

Ryo Suzuki, Niloufar Salehi, Michelle S. Lam, Juan C. Marroquin, Michael S. Bernstein  

PhD Dissertation

Selected Posters and Demos

[UIST '22 SIC]
UltraBots: Large-Area Mid-Air Haptics for VR with Robotically Actuated Ultrasound Transducers
Mehrad Faridan, Marcus Friedel, Ryo Suzuki, Adjunct Proceedings of the 35th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software & Technology (UIST '22 SIC). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1--3.
[PDF][Poster][Slide][DOI]
[UIST '22 Poster]
HapticLever: Kinematic Force Feedback using a 3D Pantograph
Marcus Friedel, Ehud Sharlin, Ryo Suzuki, Adjunct Proceedings of the 35th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software & Technology (UIST '22 Poster). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1--3.
[PDF][Poster][Slide][DOI]
[SIGGRAPH Asia '21 Real-time Live!]
RealitySketch: Augmented Reality Sketching for Real-time Embedded and Responsive Visualiza- tions
Ryo Suzuki, Rubaiat Habib, Li-Yi Wei, Stephen Diverdi, Wilmot Li, Daniel Leithinger, Adjunct Proceedings of the 34th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software & Technology (SIGGRAPH Asia '21 Real-time Live!). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1--1.
[PDF][Poster][Slide][DOI]
[UIST '21 SIC]
Swarm Fabrication: Reconfigurable 3D Printers and Drawing Plotters Made of Swarm Robots
Samin Farajian, Hiroki Kaimoto, Ryo Suzuki, Adjunct Proceedings of the 34th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software & Technology (UIST '21 SIC). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1--2.
[PDF][Poster][Slide][DOI]
[UIST '21 Demo]
Programmable Polarities: Actuating Interactive Prototypes withProgrammable Electromagnets
Martin Nisser, Leon Cheng, Yashaswini Makaram, Ryo Suzuki, Stefanie Mueller, Adjunct Proceedings of the 34th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software & Technology (UIST '21 Demo). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2951--2958.
[PDF][Poster][Slide][DOI]
[UIST '19 Doctoral Consortium]
Collective Shape-changing Interfaces
Ryo Suzuki,, Adjunct Proceedings of the 32nd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software & Technology (UIST '19 Doctoral Consortium). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2951--2958.
[PDF][Poster][Slide][DOI]
[UIST '19 Adjunct]
LiftTiles: Modular and Reconfigurable Room-scale Shape Displays through Retractable Inflatable Actuators
Ryo Suzuki, Ryosuke Nakayama, Dan Liu, Yasuaki Kakehi, Mark D. Gross, and Daniel Leithinger,, Adjunct Proceedings of the 32nd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software & Technology (UIST '19 Adjunct). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2951--2958.
[PDF][Poster][Slide][DOI]
[CHI EA '17]
Exploring the Design Space of Automatically Synthesized Hints for Introductory Programming Assignments
Ryo Suzuki, Gustavo Soares, Elena Glassman, Andrew Head, Loris D'Antoni, and Bjoern Hartmann,, Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2951--2958.
[PDF][Poster][Slide][DOI]
[UIST '15 Adjunct]
Daemo: A Self-Governed Crowdsourcing Marketplace
Stanford Crowd Research Collective, Adjunct Proceedings of the 28th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software & Technology (UIST '15 Adjunct). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 101--102.
[PDF][Poster][Slide][DOI]
[CHI '15 Workshop]
Toward a Community Enhanced Programming Education
Ryo Suzuki,, ACM CHI 2015 Symposium on Emerging Japanese HCI Research Collection (CHI '15 Workshop). ACM, New York, NY, USA, .
[PDF][Poster][Slide][DOI]
[ICSE '15 Poster]
Interactive and Collaborative Source Code Annotation
Ryo Suzuki,, Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Software Engineering - Volume 2 (ICSE '15 Poster). IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, USA, 799--800.
[PDF][Poster][Slide][DOI]
[WINE '14 Poster]
Network Thresholds and Multiple Equilibria in the Diffusion of Content-Based Platforms
Ryo Suzuki,, International Conference on Web and Internet Economics (WINE '14 Poster). Springer, New York, NY, USA, .
[PDF][Poster][Slide][DOI]

Press Coverage

Professional Activities

Program Committee: CHI 2023, UIST 2022, ISMAR 2022, VRST 2022, CHI 2022, TEI 2022, UIST 2021, ISMAR 2021, VRST 2021, TEI 2021, GI 2020

Journal Editorial Board: ACM Transactions of Human-Robot Interaction, Frontiers in Virtual Reality Haptics

Organizer: UIST 2022 (Student Innovation Contest Chair), UIST 2021 (Student Innovation Contest Chair), CHI 2021 (Social Media Chair), CHI 2021 (Student Research Competition Jury), UIST 2016 (Web and Social Media Chair),

Review: CHI 2016--2022, UIST 2017--2022, IMSUT 2020--2021, ISS 2021, ISMAR 2020--2022, VRST 2020--2022, CSCW 2021, TOCHI 2020--2021, PACM 2021, DIS 2021, C&C 2021, IEEE VR 2020, VL/HCC 2020, SCF 2019, SIGGRAPH ETech 2019--2021, GI 2020

Student Volunteer: UIST 2016, CHI 2017

Funding and Fellowship

Funding

Mitacs Globalink Research Award, $6,000 https://www.mitacs.ca/en/programs/globalink/globalink-research-award

Mitacs Globalink Research Internship Funding https://www.mitacs.ca/en/programs/globalink/globalink-research-internship

Snap Creative Challenge Funding, $15,000 https://www.snapcreativechallenge.com/

NSERC USRA, $6,000 x 2

Tohoku University Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Cooperative Research Projects, $18,000 https://www.riec.tohoku.ac.jp/en/nation-wide/koubo/r3/

NSERC Discovery Grant Funding, $145,000

Innovation Research Funding - Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications in Japan, 2020 (Title: Adaptive Physical Environments with Distributed Swarm Robots. , $30,000)

Adobe Gift Funding, 2019 ($5,000)

ACT-I Funding for Young Scholars - JST, 2018 (Title: Dynamic Physical Interfaces, $30,000 and Mentorship Opportunity - My mentor: Takeo Igarashi)

Emerging Research Funding for AI and Interdisciplinary Research - Leave a Nest Foundation, 2018 (Title: Programmable Architecture with Soft Inflatable Actuator, $5,000

KAKENHI Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research - JSPS, 2013-2015 (Title: Network-based Diffusion Analysis for Online Community, $40,000)

Fellowship

CU Boulder Travel Grant, 2015-2020 ($500-$1,200 for each conference travel)

Nakajima Foundation Scholarship, 2015-2020 ($120,000 stipend for 5 years and 2 years tuition coverage)

JSPS Research Fellow DC1, 2013 ($72,000 stipend for 2 years)

JASSO Fellow, 2013 (Total Exemption for Outstanding Students - $20,000 stipend for 2 years)

Tohso Fellowship, 2010 ($3,600)

Current Affiliation

University of Calgary

Assistant Professor

January, 2021 --- Current

Previous Affiliation

CU Boulder
August, 2015 --- August, 2020
Microsoft Research
May, 2020 --- August, 2020
May, 2019 --- August, 2019
University of Tokyo
December, 2017 --- October, 2018
UC Berkeley

Research Intern

May, 2016 --- August, 2016
Stanford University

Research Intern

May, 2015 --- August, 2015
University of Tokyo

Research Assistant

October, 2014 --- May, 2015

Research Intern

December, 2014 --- March, 2015

Recent Updates

2023-01-19

Five Late-Breaking Work papers were submitted to CHI 2023 LBW

2023-01-13

Two CHI 2023 full-papers are accepted (28%)

2023-01-11

CHI 2023 PC Meeting (Blending Interaction Subcommittee).

2022-12-13

Three papers were submitted to R&R for CHI 2023

2022-12-01
2022-11-02

Mehrad Faridan and Marcus Friedel won Honorable Mention Award for UIST 2022 Student Innovation Contest

2022-10-30

Attend UIST 2022 in Bend

2022-10-25

Attend IROS 2022 in Kyoto

2022-10-23
2022-10-15

Visit Tohoku University (Yoshifumi Kitamura Lab).

2022-10-15

Traveling to Japan.

2022-07-31

Final Day for the Mitacs Globalink Summer Intern Students.

2022-07-29

Co-Charing UIST 2022 SIC with Thijs Rouman (Ultrasound Levitation Kit).

2022-07-10

Visited Seoul National University (to see Inrak Choi).

2022-07-08

Attended SIGCHI Korea Summer Event at the University of Seoul.

2022-07-05

Invited Talk at KAIST (hosted by Andrea Bianchi and Juho Kim).

2022-07-04

Visit KAIST HCI Group in Korea.

2022-06-30

One IROS 2022 full-paper is accepted (48%).

2022-06-25

Three UIST 2022 full-paper are accepted (26%).

2022-06-16

Visit SFU HC Group in Vancouver.

2022-05-16

Invited Talk at Calgary Public Library.

2022-05-01

Presented AR and Robotics Taxonomy paper at CHI 2022 in New Orleans.

2022-04-28

Invited Talk at Microsoft Research EPIC Group in Redmond (hosted by Ken Hinckley).

2022-03-11

Invited Talk at CU Boulder ATLAS (hosted by Ellen Yi-Luen Do and Mark Gross).

2022-02-11

One CHI 2022 full-paper is accepted (26%).

2022-01-21

One ICRA 2022 full-paper is accepted.

2021-12-17

Presented RealitySketch at SIGGRAPH Asia 2021 Real-time Live! in front of thousands of audience.

2021-11-11

CHI 2022 PC Meeting (Blending Interaction).

2021-09-01
2021-08-28

Our UIST 2021 full-paper is accepted (25%).

2021-04-16

Received NSERC Discovery Grant Funding

2020-08-28

Our UIST paper won 🏆 Honorable Mention Awarad.

2020-08-07

Joining the University of Calgary as an Assisatnat Professor in CS and HCI Group starting in Winter 2021.

2020-07-28

PhD Dissertation is submitted and officially graduated! :)

2020-07-01

One IROS 2020 full-paper is accepted (47%).

2020-06-24

One UIST 2020 full-paper is accepted (21%).

2020-05-18

Start intern at Microsoft Research (mentor: Mar Gonzalez Franco).

2020-05-13

PhD Defense ... and Passed! :) (committee: D Leithinger, M Gross, T Yeh, H Ishii, T Igarashi)

2020-02-14---05-13

Traveling for on-site job interviews (UW, UCSB, Boston, Virginia Tech, Calgary)

2019-12-12

One CHI 2020 full-paper is accepted (24%).

2019-11-25

Traveling to Boston to visit MIT CSAIL and Media Lab

2019-10-19

Traveling to New Orleans for UIST 2019

2019-10-10

Became a PhD candidate (committee: D Leithinger, M Gross, T Yeh, H Ishii, T Igarashi, E Do)

2019-10-08

One TEI 2020 full-paper is accepted (28%).

2019-08-02

One UIST 2019 poster and and doctoral consortium paper are accepted.

2019-07-01

One UIST 2019 full-paper is accepted (24%).

2019-06-27

Won Best Paper Award for DIS 2019 (Top 1%).

2019-05-20

Start intern at Adobe Research (mentor: Rubaiat Habib).

2019-03-26

One DIS 2019 full-paper is accepted (25%).

2018-08-15

Award JST ACT-I funding (mentor Takeo Igarashi).

2018-08-06

One UIST 2018 full-paper is accepted (21%).

2018-08-03

One Pacific Graphics 2018 short-paper is accepted (26%).

2017-12-14

Start intern at The University of Tokyo (mentor: Yasuaki Kakehi).

2017-12-11

Two CHI 2018 full-papers are accepted (25%).

2017-06-27

One VL/HCC 2017 full-paper are accepted (29%).

2017-06-21

One ASSETS 2017 full-paper are accepted (26%).

2017-02-11

One CHI 2017 LBW paper is accepted (38%).

2016-12-16

One L@S 2017 full paper is accepted (22%).

2016-12-12

One ICSE 2017 full-paper is accepted (19%).

2016-05-23

Start intern at UC Berkeley (mentor: Bjoern Hartmann).

2016-01-15

One CHI 2016 full-paper is accepted (23%).

2015-10-01

I will serve as a web and social media chair for UIST 2016

2015-05-18

Start intern at Stanford (mentor: Michael Bernstein).

2014-10-15

The very first day of starting my HCI research (mentor: Koji Yatani)