
I am an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder in the ATLAS Institute and Department of Computer Science.
My research lies at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), AR/VR, tangible interfaces, and AI. I direct the Programmable Reality Lab at CU Boulder, where we build computational media that blend digital and physical worlds.
Previously, I was an Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary. Before that I was a PhD student at the CU Boulder, advised by Daniel Leithinger and Mark D. Gross in THING Lab and Human-Computer Interaction Group
From Tools for Thought to Space for Thought
Computers are dynamic media. Much like writing systems, the printing press, and painting canvases, they empower and amplify human thought and creativity. This medium, however, is currently confined within the boundaries of flat rectangular screens, restricting our minds and creative potential to what can be done in this small space. Our goal is to redesign this medium to unlock the full potential of human capabilities, by transforming our world itself into a computational medium with the power of AR and AI.


























Keiichi Ihara, DaeHo Lee, Manato Abe, Hye-Young Jo, Ryo Suzuki Conditionally accepted to UIST 2026

Hye-Young Jo, Mose Sakashita, Aditi Mishra, Ryo Suzuki, Koichiro Niinuma, Aakar Gupta Conditionally accepted to UIST 2026
Aditya Gunturu, Mackenzie Leake, Ryo Suzuki, Stephen DiVerdi Conditionally accepted to UIST 2026

Suibi Che-Chuan Weng, Shih-Yu Ma, Sawyer Reinig, Pritalee Kadam, Ada Yi Zhao, Amy Banić, Ryo Suzuki, Ellen Yi-Luen Do

Dong-Uk Kim, Hye-Young Jo, Hankyung Kim, Ryo Suzuki, Seungwoo Je, Yoonji Kim

DaeHo Lee, Ryo Suzuki, Jin-Hyuk Hong
Matthew Brehmer, Maxime Cordeil, Christophe Hurter, Takayuki Itoh, Wolfgang Büschel, Mahmood Jasim, Arnaud Prouzeau, David Saffo, Lyn Bartram, Sheelagh Carpendale, Chen Zhu-Tian, Andrew Cunningham, Tim Dwyer, Samuel Huron, Masahiko Itoh, Alark Joshi, Kiyoshi Kiyokawa, Hideaki Kuzuoka, Bongshin Lee, Gabriela Molina León, Harald Reiterer, Bektur Ryskeldiev, Jonathan Schwabish, Brian A. Smith, Yasuyuki Sumi, Ryo Suzuki, Anthony Tang, Yalong Yang, Jian Zhao

Aditya Gunturu, Ben Pearman, Keiichi Ihara, Morteza Faraji, Bryan Wang, Rubaiat Habib Kazi, Ryo Suzuki

Ada Yi Zhao, Aditya Gunturu, Ellen Yi-Luen Do, Ryo Suzuki

Aditya Gunturu, Shivesh Singh Jadon, Nandi Zhang, Morteza Faraji, Jarin Thundathil, Wesley Willett, Ryo Suzuki

Keiichi Ihara, Kyzyl Monteiro, Mehrad Faridan, Rubaiat Habib Kazi, Ryo Suzuki

Aditya Gunturu, Yi Wen, Nandi Zhang, Jarin Thundathil, Rubaiat Habib Kazi, Ryo Suzuki

Wanli Qian, Chenfeng Gao, Anup Sathya, Ryo Suzuki, Ken Nakagaki

Ryota Gomi, Ryo Suzuki, Kazuki Takashima, Kazuyuki Fujita, Yoshifumi Kitamura

Hye-Young Jo, Ryo Suzuki, Yoonji Kim
Kongpyung (Justin) Moon, Zofia Marciniak, Ryo Suzuki, Andrea Bianchi

Rasmus Skovhus Lunding, Mille Skovhus Lunding, Tiare Feuchtner, Marianne Graves Petersen, Kaj Gronbaek, Ryo Suzuki

Neil Chulpongsatorn, Mille Skovhus Lunding, Nishan Soni, Ryo Suzuki

Zhijie Xia, Kyzyl Monteiro, Kevin Van, Ryo Suzuki

Keiichi Ihara, Mehrad Faridan, Ayumi Ichikawa, Ikkaku Kawaguchi, Ryo Suzuki

Jiatong Li, Ryo Suzuki, Ken Nakagaki

Kyzyl Monteiro, Ritik Vatsal, Neil Chulpongsatorn, Aman Parnami, Ryo Suzuki

Mehrad Faridan, Bheesha Kumari, Ryo Suzuki

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

Jian Liao, Adnan Karim, Shivesh Jadon, Rubaiat Habib Kazi, Ryo Suzuki

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

Martin Nisser, Yashaswini Makaram, Faraz Faruqi, Ryo Suzuki, Stefanie Mueller
Ryo Suzuki, Adnan Karim, Tian Xia, Hooman Hedayati, Nicolai Marquardt
Hooman Hedayati, Ryo Suzuki, Wyatt Rees, Daniel Leithinger, Daniel Szafir

Martin Nisser, Leon Cheng, Yashaswini Makaram, Ryo Suzuki, Stefanie Mueller

Ryo Suzuki, Eyal Ofek, Mike Sinclair, Daniel Leithinger, Mar Gonzalez-Franco

Ryo Suzuki, Rubaiat Habib Kazi, Li-Yi Wei, Stephen DiVerdi, Wilmot Li, Daniel Leithinger

Hooman Hedayati, Ryo Suzuki, Daniel Leithinger, Daniel Szafir

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

Ryo Suzuki, Ryosuke Nakayama, Dan Liu, Yasuaki Kakehi, Mark D. Gross, Daniel Leithinger

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

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

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

Ryo Suzuki, Koji Yatani, Mark D. Gross, Tom Yeh

Ryo Suzuki, Jun Kato, Mark D. Gross, Tom Yeh

Hyunjoo Oh, Tung D. Ta, Ryo Suzuki, Mark D. Gross, Yoshihiro Kawahara, Lining Yao

Ryo Suzuki, Abigale Stangl, Mark D. Gross, Tom Yeh

Ryo Suzuki, Gustavo Soares, Andrew Head, Elena Glassman, Ruan Reis, Melina Mongiovi, Loris D’Antoni, Bjöern Hartmann
Andrew Head, Elena Glassman, Gustavo Soares, Ryo Suzuki, Lucas Figueredo, Loris D’Antoni, Björn Hartmann (the first three authors equally contributed)
Reudismam Rolim, Gustavo Soares, Loris D'Antoni, Oleksandr Polozov, Sumit Gulwani, Rohit Gheyi, Ryo Suzuki, Björn Hartmann
Ryo Suzuki, Niloufar Salehi, Michelle S. Lam, Juan C. Marroquin, Michael S. Bernstein
Ryo Suzuki
PhD Dissertation (University of Colorado Boulder)
Program Committee: CHI 2022-2025, UIST 2022-2024, ISMAR 2021-2023, VRST 2021-2022, TEI 2021-2023, DIS 2024, 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

Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor

Research Assistant

Research Intern

Research Intern

Visiting Researcher
Three papers—CinemaWorld, Map2Video, and CARVid—were conditionally accepted to UIST 2026.
Editing Reality was published at DIS 2026.
Three papers—HumanoidTurk, TingleTouch, and Challenges in Collaboration Around Visualization—were presented at CHI 2026.
Hye-Young Jo received a 2025 Google PhD Fellowship.
Two papers—MapStory and Guided Reality—were accepted to UIST 2025.
Joined the ATLAS Institute at CU Boulder as an Assistant Professor.
Three full papers were accepted to UIST 2023 (25%).
UIST 2023 PC Meeting Subcommittee Chair
One full paper was accepted to DIS 2023.
Visited Rome, Barcelona, and London for guest talks.
Attended CHI 2023 in Hamburg to present two full papers and two late-breaking works.
Two CHI 2023 LBW papers were accepted (34%)
Two full papers were accepted to CHI 2023 (28%).
CHI 2023 PC Meeting (Blending Interaction Subcommittee).
Three papers were submitted to R&R for CHI 2023
Visited the ATLAS Institute at CU Boulder.
Mehrad Faridan and Marcus Friedel won an Honorable Mention Award in the UIST 2022 Student Innovation Contest.
Attended UIST 2022 in Bend.
Attended IROS 2022 in Kyoto.
Visited Kyoto University.
Visited Tohoku University (Yoshifumi Kitamura Lab).
Traveling to Japan.
Final day for the Mitacs Globalink summer interns.
Co-chaired the UIST 2022 Student Innovation Contest with Thijs Roumen (Ultrasound Levitation Kit).
Visited Seoul National University (to see Inrak Choi).
Attended SIGCHI Korea Summer Event at the University of Seoul.
Invited Talk at KAIST (hosted by Andrea Bianchi and Juho Kim).
Visited the KAIST HCI Group in Korea.
One full paper was accepted to IROS 2022 (48%).
Three full papers were accepted to UIST 2022 (26%).
Visited the SFU HC Group in Vancouver.
Invited Talk at Calgary Public Library.
Presented AR and Robotics Taxonomy paper at CHI 2022 in New Orleans.
Invited Talk at Microsoft Research EPIC Group in Redmond (hosted by Ken Hinckley).
Invited Talk at CU Boulder ATLAS (hosted by Ellen Yi-Luen Do and Mark Gross).
One full paper was accepted to CHI 2022 (26%).
One full paper was accepted to ICRA 2022.
Presented RealitySketch at SIGGRAPH Asia 2021 Real-Time Live! in front of thousands of attendees.
CHI 2022 PC Meeting (Blending Interaction).
Samin Farajian won UIST 2021 Best Student Innovation Contest Award
Started Programmable Reality Lab.
Our full paper was accepted to UIST 2021 (25%).
We won the Snap Creative Challenge Award.
Received NSERC Discovery Grant funding.
Our UIST paper won 🏆 Honorable Mention Award.
Joined the University of Calgary as an Assistant Professor in CS and a member of the HCI Group, starting in Winter 2021.
Submitted my PhD dissertation and officially graduated! :)
One IROS 2020 full paper was accepted (47%).
One full paper was accepted to UIST 2020 (21%).
Started an internship at Microsoft Research (mentor: Mar Gonzalez Franco).
PhD Defense ... and Passed! :) (committee: D Leithinger, M Gross, T Yeh, H Ishii, T Igarashi)
Traveling for on-site job interviews (UW, UCSB, Boston, Virginia Tech, Calgary)
One full paper was accepted to CHI 2020 (24%).
Traveling to Boston to visit MIT CSAIL and Media Lab
Traveling to New Orleans for UIST 2019
Became a PhD candidate (committee: D Leithinger, M Gross, T Yeh, H Ishii, T Igarashi, E Do)
One full paper was accepted to TEI 2020 (28%).
One poster and one doctoral consortium paper were accepted to UIST 2019.
One full paper was accepted to UIST 2019 (24%).
Won Best Paper Award for DIS 2019 (Top 1%).
Started an internship at Adobe Research (mentor: Rubaiat Habib).
One full paper was accepted to DIS 2019 (25%).
Received JST ACT-I funding (mentor: Takeo Igarashi).
One full paper was accepted to UIST 2018 (21%).
One Pacific Graphics 2018 short paper was accepted (26%).
Started an internship at The University of Tokyo (mentor: Yasuaki Kakehi).
Two full papers were accepted to CHI 2018 (25%).
One full paper was accepted to VL/HCC 2017 (29%).
One full paper was accepted to ASSETS 2017 (26%).
One late-breaking work paper was accepted to CHI 2017 (38%).
One full paper was accepted to L@S 2017 (22%).
One full paper was accepted to ICSE 2017 (19%).
Started an internship at UC Berkeley (mentor: Bjoern Hartmann).
One full paper was accepted to CHI 2016 (23%).
I will serve as a web and social media chair for UIST 2016
Started an internship at Stanford (mentor: Michael Bernstein).
The very first day of starting my HCI research (mentor: Koji Yatani)