HighlightsJiannan Li is an award-winning human-computer interaction researcher specializing in collaborative interfaces, intelligent agents, and immersive technologies, with impactful contributions to both academia and industry.
Recognized for methodological innovation in collaborative and immersive systems, bridging human-computer interaction theory with practical deployment; awarded for best paper at ACM CHI; combines academic rigor with industry experience; emphasizes usability, safety, and real-world applicability in intelligent agent and mixed reality research.
Focused research areas include Design and evaluation of collaborative and immersive technologies, including intelligent agents for situational assistance, multimodal interaction, remote collaboration, and human-AI interaction in virtual and physical environments.
Recognized for methodological innovation in collaborative and immersive systems, bridging human-computer interaction theory with practical deployment; awarded for best paper at ACM CHI; combines academic rigor with industry experience; emphasizes usability, safety, and real-world applicability in intelligent agent and mixed reality research.
Focused research areas include Design and evaluation of collaborative and immersive technologies, including intelligent agents for situational assistance, multimodal interaction, remote collaboration, and human-AI interaction in virtual and physical environments.
Areas of Expertise
Human-computer interactionHuman-robot interaction
Past Awarded Grant
- Developing Intelligent Agents that Assist with Human Situational Difficulties, SMU Internal Grant, Ministry of Education (MOE) Tier 1 , PI (Project Level): LI Jiannan, 2023, S$119,333
Latest Publications
Showing up to 6 latest publications from the past 5 years.
- E Poh, Y Hou, T Zhang, J LiarXiv preprint arXiv:2603.02567, 2026
- M Karunathilaka, L Lei, Y Gao, Y Wang, J LiIEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2026
- S Ruan, R Sheng, X Wen, J Wang, T Zhang, Y Wang, T Dwyer, J LiIEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2025
- Q Wan, J Li, H Wang, Z LuProceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 9 (7), 1-29, 2025
- R Li, J Guo, X Zhang, X Zhang, Z Li, J Li, J GongProceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous …, 2025
- Prompting an Embodied AI Agent: How Embodiment and Multimodal Signaling Affects Prompting Behaviour [2025]T Zhang, C Au Yeung, E Aurelia, Y Onishi, N Chulpongsatorn, J Li, ...Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems …, 2025
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Qualification
- PhD, University of Toronto, 2024