Michael Qian

PhD student in Computer Science at University of Southern California, Haptics, Robotics, HCI research advised by Professor Heather Culbertson

[Michael Qian @MichaelQwl]

@_yudaitanaka @UTCompSci Huge Congrats!!

[Michael Qian @MichaelQwl]

Excited to share that our paper, “Language-Guided Multimodal Texture Authoring via Generative Models,” was accepted to IEEE Haptics Symposium 2026 and received the Distinguished Technical Long Paper Award.
#haptics2026

[Michael Qian @MichaelQwl]

USC reunion @ICRA2025

[Michael Qian @MichaelQwl]

Amazing conference @ICRA2025 (not a comic conference)

[Michael Qian @MichaelQwl]

@ranzhoubot @MadelineBalaam @dleithinger @ken0324 @xjasminelu Congrats Ran! Great to be part of your amazing work

[Bowen Wen @bowenwen_me]

📢Time to upgrade your depth camera! Introducing **FoundationStereo**, a foundation model for stereo depth estimation in zero-shot (accepted to CVPR 2025 with full scores) [1/n]

Code: https://t.co/we8L8cO8C6
Website: https://t.co/np3nX1NMm2
Paper: https://t.co/faSLsLxYmW

[Fei-Fei Li @drfeifei]

Very excited to share with you what our team @theworldlabs has been up to! No matter how one theorizes the idea, it's hard to use words to describe the experience of interacting with 3D scenes generated by a photo or a sentence. Hope you enjoy this blog! 🤩❤️‍🔥

[Yujie Tao @tao_yujie]

The sense of touch is innately private, but what if it could be shared across individuals?

We @StanfordVR studied shared body sensations in VR and found it increases body illusion and empathy toward others and influences social behavior. #ISMAR2024

🔗https://t.co/NfPdqOuIB5

[Joel Chan | 🦋: joelchan86.bsky.social @JoelChan86]

In the spirit of #UIST2024, a next-level live demo: controlling a shape-changing display (live from Chicago!) via text input in Pittsburgh!

This conference is awesome.

[Ken Nakagaki @ken0324]

@MichaelQwl + @JesseGao13 gave a transformative talk, especially with a LIVE DEMO to remotely control the shape display in our lab in UChicago using their system! Thanks to @ChiWang_02 for running the hardware at @AxLab_UChicago !

[Ken Nakagaki @ken0324]

In today's Poster Session A, @JesseGao13 & @MichaelQwl will share their exploration and extended vision into 'AI-infused Shape Changing UIs' controlled by touch, gesture, & speech. #UIST2024

'Towards Multimodal Interaction with AI-Infused Shape-Changing Interfaces'
https://t.co/t8itvl8OdD

[Ken Nakagaki @ken0324]

Thanks to everyone who came to @AxLab_UChicago's #UIST2024 demos!
We immensely enjoyed showing our demos to the @ACMUIST community! (Special Thanks to Anup, who couldn't make the conf but significantly contributed to 2 papers, & Chi, who operated the shape display from Chicago!

[Jesse Gao @JesseGao13]

@ken0324 @AxLab_UChicago @UChicago Text-to-Shape-Display! Look how we make the shape display live in @AxLab_UChicago ! Thanks all the help from our lab mates and my mom( she enjoys using e-drills though!)

[Ken Nakagaki @ken0324]

🚨#UIST2024 Poster: Towards AI-Infused Shape-Changing UIs 👉💬🪄

What if you can point, gesture, and speak to 'summon' any physical shapes?
Another exploration by AxLab, in collab with @UChicagoCS's 3DL, employs Gen-AI to author shape display via multimodal interaction.
🧵→

[Ken Nakagaki @ken0324]

.@AxLab_UChicago will present 3 PAPERS (talk+demo) and 2 POSTERS + be part of 1 WORKSHOP in the #UIST2024 conference next week!
The image below shows them with detailed schedules! We will post the project details in the next few days. We are so excited to present them @ACMUIST!

[Michael Qian @MichaelQwl]

Proud to announce that I’ll be joining the HARVI Lab as a PhD student this fall! I’m thrilled to work with my advisor, @hmculbertson, and can’t wait for the exciting years ahead!

[Meta Newsroom @MetaNewsroom]

We just unveiled Orion, which we believe is the most advanced pair of augmented reality glasses ever made.

https://t.co/nvL4cAOzFW

[Ken Nakagaki @ken0324]

Graduation season is here, and @AxLab_UChicago proudly has 8(!) members departing for their next steps! So much memory with them, building the lab, exhibiting (Ars Electronica/SXSW, etc), writing papers, attending conf, and having fun together (incl. today's T-shirt activity👕

[Gerry @gchenfc]

Our graffiti painting robot is getting better! Slowly but steadily :)
With @florez_jd @fdellaert Seth Hutchinson, Michael Qian
Powered by #gtsam