Zheer Xu

PhD Student
Department of Computer Science
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH, US
Email: zheer.xu.gr@dartmouth.edu

Short Bio

I am a last-year CS PhD student at Dartmouth College, and a student member of HealthX Lab (previously at XDiscovery Lab, the HCI research group of Dartmouth led by Prof. Xing-Dong Yang). Before coming to Dartmouth, I obtained my bachelor degree in computer science at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) in 2018.

My research interests in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) primarily focus on novel and efficient text input on mobile and emerging platforms (i.e., AR/VR headsets/glasses/wearables). I created intelligent and user-centered text input methods across different input modalities (e.g. tap typing, gesture typing, handwriting, etc.) by applying both data-driven computational design on typing interface and cutting-edge language model (LM) techniques on underlying decoding algorithm.

Besides publishing in top-tier HCI venues, I also have extensive research experience in industry, as I completed four research internships in prestigious industry labs during my PhD, including Microsoft Research, Meta Reality Labs, and Google.

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Professional Experience

  • Student Researcher, Google, 2023
  • Research Intern, Google, 2022
  • Research Intern (HCI), Facebook Reality Labs (now Reality Labs at Meta), 2021
  • Research Intern, Microsoft Research Redmond, 2020

Selected Awards

  • ACM UIST Best Paper Award, ACM SIGCHI, 2019
  • ACM CHI Honorable Mention Award, ACM SIGCHI, 2018
  • Distinguished Member of Class 2018, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2018

Recent News

  • Sep 2022: Another incredible internship at Google! Thanks Shanqing and Shumin for hosting me again.
  • Sep 2022: Finished an amazing internship in Android Interface Research team (AIR) at Google.
  • Jul 2022: PhraseSwipe got accepted by UIST'22. See you all in Bend this fall!
  • Dec 2021: Finished an amazing internship at Meta Reality Labs. Great fun to explore text neuro-interface!
  • May 2021: Three papers published at CHI'21.
  • Sep 2020: Finished my first industry internship at Microsoft Research. What an amazing journey!
  • May 2020: BiTipText has been published in CHI'20.
  • July 2019: TipText has won a UIST Best Paper Award!

Refereed Publications

AccessibleCircuit: Adaptive Add-On Circuit Components for People with Blindness or Low Vision
Project Tasca: Enabling Touch and Contextual Interactions with a Pocket-based Textile Sensor
WrisText: One-handed Text Entry on Smartwatch using Wrist Gestures
🏅 Honorable Mention Award | [Paper] [Video] [DOI]