Ryo Suzuki smiling while wearing a black shirt against a neutral background
Assistant Professor • PhD, Computer Science '20
ATLAS Institute

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Ryo Suzuki is an Assistant Professor at the ATLAS Institute and the Department of Computer Science at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he leads the Programmable Reality Lab. Prior to joining CU Boulder, he served as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Calgary. He earned his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Colorado Boulder.

His research mission is to enhance human thought and creativity by transforming the entire living environment into a "dynamic space for thought", where people can think through tangible and spatial exploration with real objects in the real world, not with virtual objects on screens. His research has been published in top human-computer interaction and robotics conferences, including CHI, UIST, IROS, and ICRA, earning multiple awards. He has regularly served as a program committee member for CHI and UIST among others. Previously he also worked as a visiting researcher and research intern at Google, Adobe Research, Microsoft Research, Stanford University, UC Berkeley, the University of Tokyo, and Tohoku University.

Publications:

  • Suzuki, Ryo & Karim, Adnan & Xia, Tian & Hedayati, Hooman & Marquardt, Nicolai. (2022). Augmented Reality and Robotics: A Survey and Taxonomy for AR-enhanced Human-Robot Interaction and Robotic Interfaces.听听In听Proceedings of听CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 鈥22). (New Orleans, LA鈥擜pril 30-May 5, 2022).

  • Hooman Hedayati, RyoSuzuki, Wyatt Rees, Daniel Leithinger, and Daniel Szafir. 2022. . Frontiers in Robotics and AI. vol. 9. DOI=10.3389/frobt.2022.719639听 (April 11, 2022).

  • Ryo Suzuki, Eyal Ofek, Mike Sinclair,听Daniel Leithinger, and Mar Gonzalez-Franco. 2021.听. In听The Adjunct Publication of the 34th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 131鈥133. DOI:听(Virtual鈥揙ct.10-14, 2021).

  • Hooman Hedayati, Ryo Suzuki, Daniel Leithinger, Daniel J. Szafir. 2020. PufferBot: Actuated Expandable Structures for Aerial Robots. In Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2020). DOI: . (Las Vegas, Nevada鈥揙ct.听25-29, 2020) .

  • Ryo Suzuki, Rubaiat Habib Kazi, Li-Yi Wei, Stephen DiVerdi, Wilmot Li, and听Daniel Leithinger. 2020. RealitySketch: Embedding Responsive Graphics and Visualizations in AR through Dynamic Sketching. In听Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '20). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 16 pages. DOI:听听(Minneapolis, Minnesota鈥揙ct. 20-23, 2020)听[Honorable Mention Paper Award].

  • Ryo Suzuki,听Hooman Hedayati,听Clement Zheng, James Bohn,听Daniel Szafir,听Ellen Yi-Luen Do,听Mark D Gross, and听Daniel Leithinger. 2020. RoomShift: Room-scale Dynamic Haptics for VR with Furniture-moving Swarm Robots. In听Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '20). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Paper 396, 11 pages. DOI:听听 (Honolulu, Hawaii听鈥撎鼳pril 25-30, 2020).

  • Ryo Suzuki, Ryosuke Nakayama, Dan Liu, Yasuaki Kakehi,听Mark D. Gross, and听Daniel Leithinger. 2020. LiftTiles: Constructive Building Blocks for Prototyping Room-scale Shape-changing Interfaces. In听Proceedings of the 14th ACM International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI '20). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Pages 143鈥151. DOI:听听(Sydney, Australia鈥揊eb. 9-12, 2020).听
  • Ryo Suzuki, Ryosuke Nakayama, Dan Liu, Yasuaki Kakehi,听Mark D. Gross, and听Daniel Leithinger.听2019.听LiftTiles: Modular and Reconfigurable Room-scale Shape Displays through Retractable Inflatable Actuators.听In Adjunct Proceedings of the 32nd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '19).听ACM, New York, NY, USA,听1-3.听 DOI:听听 (New Orleans, Louisiana 鈥 Oct. 20-23, 2019).

  • Ryo Suzuki,听Clement Zheng, Yasuaki Kakehi,听Tom Yeh,听Ellen Yi-Luen Do,听Mark D. Gross,听Daniel Leithinger. 2019. ShapeBots: Shape-changing Swarm Robots. In Proceedings of The 32nd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST'19). 听听(New Orleans, Louisiana鈥擮ct. 20-23, 2019).

  • Ryosuke Nakayama, Ryo Suzuki, Satoshi Nakamaru, Ryuma Niiyama, Yoshihiro Kawahara, and Yasuaki Kakehi. 2019. MorphIO: Entirely Soft Sensing and Actuation Modules for Programming Shape Changes through Tangible Interaction. In听Proceedings of the 2019 on Designing Interactive Systems Conference听(DIS '19). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 975-986. DOI: . [Best Paper Award].

  • Ryo Suzuki, Junichi Yamaoka,听Daniel Leithinger,听Tom Yeh,听Mark D. Gross, Yoshihiro Kawahara, Yasuaki Kakehi. 2018.听Dynablock: Dynamic 3D Printing for Instant and Reconstructable Shape Formation. In听Proceedings of The 31st Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST'18).听DOI:听听(Berlin, Germany鈥擮ct.听14-17, 2018).

  • Ryo Suzuki, Koji Yatani, Mark D. Gross, Tom Yeh. 2018.听Explorable Design for 3D Printing Textures. In听Proceedings of The 26th Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (Pacific Graphics'18).听DOI: (Hong Kong鈥揙ct. 8-11, 2018).听

  • Ryo Suzuki,听Jun Kato,听Mark D. Gross,听Tom Yeh.听2018.听.听In听Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems听(CHI '18). DOI:听听(Montreal, Canada鈥揂pril 21-26, 2018).

  • Hyunjoo Oh, Tung D. Ta,听Ryo Suzuki,听Mark D. Gross, Yoshihiro Kawahara, and Lining Yao. 2018.听. In听Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems听(CHI '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Paper 441, 12 pages. DOI:听听(Montreal, Canada鈥揂pril 21-26, 2018).

  • Ryo Suzuki, Abigale Stangl, Mark D. Gross, and听Tom Yeh. 2017.听. In听Proceedings of the 19th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility听(ASSETS '17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 190-199. DOI:听听(Baltimore, Maryland鈥揙ct.听20-Nov.听1, 2017).