Email: Lichard@cs.washington.edu
Website: https://Lichard49.github.io
University of Washington - Postdoctoral Fellow
Mentors: James Fogarty (DUB Group), Shwetak Patel (UbiComp Lab), and Cindy Lin (School of Medicine)
University of Washington - Graduate Research Assistant
Mentors: James Fogarty (DUB Group) and Shwetak Patel (UbiComp Lab)
Microsoft Research - Research Intern
Mentors: Teddy Seyed, Nicolai Marquardt, Nathalie Riche, and Ken Hinckley (EPIC Team)
Microsoft Research - Research Intern
Mentors: Eyal Ofek, Nicolai Marquardt, and Ken Hinckley (EPIC Team)
Microsoft Research - Research Intern
Mentors: Alex Fiannaca and Ed Cutrell (Ability Team)
X, the Moonshot Factory (Google [x]) - Research Scholar
Mentors: JB Berent and Yash Ahluwalia
Google Research - Research Scholar
Mentors: Dimitri Kanvesky, Thad Starner, Dick Lyon
Georgia Institute of Technology - Graduate Research Assistant
Mentors: Thad Starner and Gregory Abowd
Nvidia Research - Research Intern
Mentor: Kaan Akşit
Amazon.com - Software Engineering Intern
Intel - Research and Development Intern
Broadcom - Software Configuration Management Intern
University of Washington
Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering
Advisors: James Fogarty and Shwetak Patel
Georgia Institute of Technology
M.S. in Computer Science
Advisors: Gregory Abowd and Thad Starner
Georgia Institute of Technology
B.S. in Computer Science, minor in Music Performance (clarinet)
Young Researcher - Heidelberg Laureate Forum
CHI 2025 Best Paper Award - CHI Conference on Human Factors
Travel Grant to UbiComp/ISWC 2024 - UbiComp/ISWC
I-Corps Participant - UW NSF Innovation Corps Site
Innovation Gap Fund (~$10k) - UW CoMotion Labs
Inventor of the Year Finalist - UW School of Medicine
Husky 100 - University of Washington
Population Health Pilot Grant (~$100k) - UW Population Health Initative
Futuremaker Fellowship (~$50k) - Siemens
Runner-Up Master's Thesis - GT Three Minute Thesis Competition
Outstanding Master's Thesis - GT College of Computing
Best Computing Poster Award - GT Career, Research, and Innovation Development Conference
Travel Grant to CSCW 2015 - GT GVU Center
President's Undergraduate Research Award - GT Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program
HOPE Scholarship - GT Office of Scholarships and Financial Aid
Beacon: At-Home, Self-Administration of a Test for Critical Flicker Frequency as a Screening Test for Minimal Hepatic Encephalopathy
AASLD The Liver Meeting
Philip Vutien*, Richard Li*, Ravi Karkar, James Fogarty, Sean A Munson, Sabrina Omer, Michael Yacoub, James Kashima, George N Ioannou
campaign Oral Presentation
What Motivates Bladder Cancer Patients to be Active? A Qualitative Study Assessing Attitudes Towards Physical Activity and Digital Health Technologies
Urologic Oncology: Seminars and Original Investigations
Alex Zhu, Jessica Sher, Richard Li, Otari Ioseliani, Leah Cantor, Elena G Brewer, Karla Landis, David Bridges, Sean A Munson, Hanna Hunter, Cindy Lin, Sarah P Psutka
Deploying and Examining Beacon for At-Home Patient Self-Monitoring with Critical Flicker Frequency
ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Richard Li, Philip Vutien, Sabrina Omer, Michael Yacoub, George Ioannou, Ravi Karkar, Sean A Munson, James Fogarty
emoji_events Best Paper Award
ECG Necklace: Low-power Wireless Necklace for Continuous ECG monitoring
ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Qiuyue Xue, Eric Steven Martin, Jiaqing Liu, Ruiqing Wang, Antonio Glenn, Richard Li, Vikram Iyer, Shwetak Patel
Evaluating a Novel, Portable, Self-Administrable Device ("Beacon") that Measures Critical Flicker Frequency as a Test for Hepatic Encephalopathy
ACG American Journal of Gastroenterology
Philip Vutien*, Richard Li*, Ravi Karkar, Sean A Munson, James Fogarty, Kara Walter, Michael Yacoub, George N Ioannou
AdHocProx: Sensing Mobile, Ad-Hoc Collaborative Device Formations using Dual Ultra-Wideband Radios
ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Richard Li, Teddy Seyed, Nicolai Marquardt, Eyal Ofek, Steve Hodges, Mike Sinclair, Hugo Romat, Michel Pahud, Jatin Sharma, William AS Buxton, Ken Hinckley, Nathalie Riche
Food, Mood, Context: Examining College Students' Eating Context and Mental Well-Being
ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare
Mehrab Bin Morshed, Samruddhi Shreeram Kulkarni, Koustuv Saha, Richard Li, Leah G Roper, Lama Nachman, Hong Lu, Lucia Mirabella, Sanjeev Srivastava, Kaya De Barbaro, Munmun De Choudhury, Thomas Plötz, Gregory Abowd
SilentSpeller: Towards Mobile, Hands-Free, Silent Speech Text Entry using Electropalatography
ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Naoki Kimura, Tan Gemicioglu, Jonathan Womack, Richard Li, Yuhui Zhao, Abdelkareem Bedri, Zixiong Su, Alex Olwal, Jun Rekimoto, Thad Starner
Understanding the Design Space of Mouth Microgestures
ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference
Victor Chen, Xuhai Xu, Richard Li, Yuanchun Shi, Shwetak Patel, Yuntao Wang
Augmented Silkscreen: Designing AR Interactions for Debugging Printed Circuit Boards
ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference
Ishan Chatterjee, Olga Khvan, Tadeusz Pforte, Richard Li, Shwetak Patel
A Real-Time Eating Detection System for Capturing Eating Moments and Triggering Ecological Momentary Assessments to Obtain Further Context: System Development and Validation Study
JMIR mHealth and uHealth
Mehrab Bin Morshed, Samruddhi Shreeram Kulkarni, Richard Li, Koustuv Saha, Leah Galante Roper, Lama Nachman, Hong Lu, Lucia Mirabella, Sanjeev Srivastava, Munmun De Choudhury, Kaya de Barbaro, Thomas Ploetz, Gregory D Abowd
Optical Gaze Tracking with Spatially-Sparse Single-Pixel Detectors
IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality
Richard Li, Eric Whitmire, Michael Stengel, Ben Boudaoud, Jan Kautz, David Luebke, Shwetak Patel, Kaan Akşit
KissGlass: Greeting Gesture Recognition using Smart Glasses
Augmented Humans International Conference
Richard Li, Juyoung Lee, Woontack Woo, Thad Starner
Prediction of Mood Instability with Passive Sensing
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies
Mehrab Bin Morshed, Koustuv Saha, Richard Li, Sidney K D'Mello, Munmun De Choudhury, Gregory D Abowd, Thomas Plötz
ScratchThat: Supporting Command-Agnostic Speech Repair in Voice-Driven Assistants
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies
Jason Wu, Karan Ahuja, Richard Li, Victor Chen, Jeffrey Bigham
TongueBoard: An Oral Interface for Subtle Input
Augmented Humans International Conference
Richard Li, Jason Wu, Thad Starner
ScratchVR: Low-Cost, Calibration-Free Sensing for Tactile Input on Mobile Virtual Reality Enclosures
ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers
Richard Li, Victor Chen, Gabriel Reyes, Thad Starner
Buccal: Low-Cost Cheek Sensing for Inferring Continuous Jaw Motion in Mobile Virtual Reality
ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers
Richard Li, Gabriel Reyes
WristWash: Towards Automatic Handwashing Assessment Using a Wrist-Worn Device
ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers
Hong Li, Shishir Chawla, Richard Li, Sumeet Jain, Gregory D Abowd, Thad Starner, Cheng Zhang, Thomas Plötz
EarBit: Using Wearable Sensors to Detect Eating Episodes in Unconstrained Environments
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies
Abdelkareem Bedri, Richard Li, Malcolm Haynes, Raj Prateek Kosaraju, Ishaan Grover, Temiloluwa Prioleau, Min Yan Beh, Mayank Goel, Thad Starner, Gregory Abowd
Towards Characterizing Knowledge Distillation of PPG Heart Rate Estimation Models
NeurIPS Workshop on Learning from Time Series for Health
Kanav Arora, Girish Narayanswamy, Shwetak Patel, Richard Li
Investigating the Use of Beacon for Cognitive Monitoring in People with Alzheimer's Disease and Lewy Body Dementia via the Critical Flicker Frequency
AMIA Workgroup on Interactive Systems in Healthcare
Richard Li, Philip Vutien, Ravi Karkar, Sabrina Omer, Michael Yacoub, Sarah Payne, Sean A Munson, James Fogarty, George Ioannou, Debby Tsuang
Improving Medical Outcomes through At-Home, Longitudinal Health Monitoring
UbiComp/ISWC Doctoral Colloquium
Richard Li
Exploring and Characterizing Large Language Models for Embedded System Development and Debugging
ACM CHI Late-Breaking Work
Zachary Englhardt, Richard Li, Dilini Nissanka, Zhihan Zhang, Girish Narayanswamy, Joseph Breda, Xin Liu, Shwetak Patel, Vikram Iyer
Opportunistic Nudges for Task Migration Between Personal Devices
ACM CHI Late-Breaking Work
Nikhita Joshi, Richard Li, Jiannan Li, Leonardo Pavanatto, Michel Pahud, Jatin Sharma, Bongshin Lee, Hugo Romat, William Buxton, Nicolai Marquardt
The "Get Moving Trial": A Phase I/II RCT of Home-Based (P)rehabilitation ((P)REHAB) with ExerciseRx in Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer (MIBC)
ASCO Journal of Clinical Oncology
Hanna Hunter, Cindy Lin, Richard Li, Otari Ioseliani, Leah Cantor, Elena Brewer, Samia Jannat, Karla Landis, David Bridges, Sean Munson
Smart-Pikachu: Extending Interactivity of Stuffed Animals with Large Language Models
ACM UIST Student Innovation Challenge
Toma Itagaki, Richard Li
Accuracy of Home Exercise Detection Using Novel Sonar Mobile Application Technology
ACSM Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise
Ahmed I El-Sayed, Richard Li, Parker Ruth, Libby Lavitt, Matthew Essman, Shwetak N Patel, Cindy Y Lin
Mobile, Hands-Free, Silent Speech Texting using SilentSpeller
ACM CHI Late-Breaking Work
Naoki Kimura, Tan Gemicioglu, Jonathan Womack, Richard Li, Yuhui Zhao, Abdelkareem Bedri, Alex Olwal, Jun Rekimoto, Thad Starner
Evaluating a Novel, Portable, Self-Administered Device ("Flicker-App") that Measures Critical Flicker Frequency as a Test for Hepatic Encephalopathy in Patients with Cirrhosis
AASLD The Liver Meeting Digital Experience
Philip Vutien, Ravi Karkar, Richard Li, Kara Walter, Sean Munson, James Fogarty, George Ioannou
Tactile Teacher: Enhancing Traditional Piano Lessons with Tactile Instructions
ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing Poster
Richard Li, Yingyan Wang, Chih-Pin Hsiao, Nicholas Davis, James Hallam, Ellen Yi-Luen Do
Tactile Teacher: Sensing Finger Tapping in Piano Playing
ACM Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction Demo
Chih-Pin Hsiao, Richard Li, Xinyan Yan, Ellen Yi-Luen Do
Designing and Deploying Next-Generation Health Technologies: Producing Actionable Insights from Novel Biomarkers
Host: Interactive Intelligent Systems Laboratory (University of Tokyo)
Designing and Deploying Next-Generation Health Technologies: Producing Actionable Insights from Novel Biomarkers
Host: Human-Computer Interaction Seminar (Columbia University)
Towards Personal Interpretation of Health Data for Improving Medical Outcomes
Host: VAK Sustainable Computing Lab (Northwestern University)
Supporting Exercise as a Medicine using Generative AI
Host: Computer Science & Engineering Industry Affiliates Day (UW)
Deploying and Examining Beacon for At-Home Patient Self-Monitoring with Critical Flicker Frequency
Host: Advanced Topics in Human-Computer Interaction (UW CSE 510)
ExerciseRx-CP: At-Home Sensor-Driven Strengthening
Host: Cerebral Palsy Grand Rounds (Seattle Children's Hospital)
Deploying and Examining Beacon for At-Home Patient Self-Monitoring with Critical Flicker Frequency
Host: Computer Science & Engineering Industry Affiliates Day (UW)
Sensing Device Formations using Ultra-Wideband Radios
Host: Human-Computer Interaction Seminar (Microsoft Research)
Critical Flicker Frequency for Minimal Hepatic Encephalopathy
Host: Hepatology Grand Rounds (Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Medical Center)
Embedded Systems Capstone (UW CSE/EE475, EE 542) - Instructor
Prepared and taught lectures on advanced embedded systems topics (i.e., PCB design, wireless communication, on-device machine learning). Guided 9 team projects from ideation to presentation. 36 students, overall rating of 4.5/5.
Ubiquitous Computing Seminar (UW CSE 599U) - Instructor
Organized weekly seminar presentations on literature from ubiqutious computing, human-computer interaction, and mobile systems.
Introduction to Human-Computer Interaction (UW CSE 440) - Teaching Assistant
Conducted lab sessions and graded assignments. 32 students.
Technical Interview Prep (GT TIP) - Founder and Instructor
Designed curriculum to prepare students for technical software engineering interviews, presented weekly lectures and organized class activities.
Introduction to Computer Science (GT CS 1100) - Teaching Assistant
Presented lectures on opportunities for computer science majors.
Kanav Arora
Deep learning for health sensing.
Jason Miller
Communication over audio, deep learning for pose tracking.
Jonathan Shu - Now: Software Engineer at Amazon.com
UW Undergraduate Research Symposium. Gaze tracking, Beacon hardware.
Toma Itagaki - Now: PhD Student at Columbia University
NSF GRFP. Brain-computer interfaces, health sensing.
Millicent Li - Now: PhD Student at Northeastern University.
NSF GRFP, UW Undergraduate Honors Thesis. Brain-computer interfaces.
Annalice Ni - Now: Software Engineer at Bytedance
UW Undergraduate Honors Thesis. Fabrication and sensing techniques for interactive cardboard widgets.
Eddy Zhou - Now: Software Engineer at F5
Fabrication and sensing techniques for interactive cardboard widgets.
Victor Chen - Now: MS Student at Stanford, Software Engineer at Zoom
Sensing and interaction techniques for low-cost VR headsets.
Sophia Sun - Now: Software Engineer at Yelp, PhD student at University of Minnesota
GT Undergraduate Honors Thesis. Face sensing for low-cost VR headsets.
Ruihan Xu - Now: Software Engineer at Google
GT Undergraduate Honors Thesis. Face sensing for low-cost VR headsets.
ACM CHI - 2026
ACM CHI - 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024*, 2025, 2026
ACM IMWUT - 2019, 2021*, 2022*, 2023, 2024
ACM ISWC - 2017, 2018, 2020
ACM UIST - 2021, 2022, 2025
ACM Health - 2025
NeurIPS TS4H - 2025
IEEE TVCG - 2024
ACM TEI - 2023
IEEE VR - 2022
ACM MobileHCI - 2022
IEEE ISMAR - 2020*
UbiComp - 2019
UIST - 2022
UW Faculty Recruiting Host (HCI) - 2024
UW CSE Visit Days Area Oraganizer (Ubicomp) - 2022 - 2024
UW CSE PhD Admissions Area Chair (HCI and Ubicomp) - 2023
UW CSE PhD Admissions Reviewer - 2022 - 2024
UW CSE PhD Pre-Application Mentorship Service (PAMS) Mentor - 2021 - 2024