LI Jiannan
Full-time Faculty
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
School of Computing and Information Systems
SCIS
Qualification
- PhD, University of Toronto, 2024
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HighlightsJiannan Li is an award-winning human-computer interaction researcher specializing in collaborative interfaces, intelligent agents, and multimodal interaction, with impactful contributions to both academia and industry.
Recognized for methodological innovation in collaborative and multimodal interaction design; combines rigorous user studies with real-world system deployment; recipient of CHI Best Paper Honorable Mention; impactful in advancing intelligent agent interfaces and remote collaboration technologies; strong industry and academic collaborations.
Focused research areas include Design and evaluation of collaborative interfaces and intelligent agents; multimodal signaling and prompting in embodied AI; remote and mixed reality workspace integration; safety and awareness in virtual environments; user interaction with generative AI and robots.
Recognized for methodological innovation in collaborative and multimodal interaction design; combines rigorous user studies with real-world system deployment; recipient of CHI Best Paper Honorable Mention; impactful in advancing intelligent agent interfaces and remote collaboration technologies; strong industry and academic collaborations.
Focused research areas include Design and evaluation of collaborative interfaces and intelligent agents; multimodal signaling and prompting in embodied AI; remote and mixed reality workspace integration; safety and awareness in virtual environments; user interaction with generative AI and robots.
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