Timeline

This is an overview of conference visits, paper acceptances and other events that marked my development. It is updated continuously, and currently covers the most recent events.

Jun.2026
Attended CG Connect Toronto (CGCT)
Jan.2026
Zeyu Yan and I are serving as Sponsorship Co-Chairs for the 2026 ACM Symposium on Computational Fabrication (ACM SCF). Feel free to reach out to discuss sponsorhip opportunities.
Nov.2025
Converted from a Postdoctoral Researcher to a Senior Research Scientist at Autodesk Research to continue my work at the intersection of HCI and AI.
Nov.2025
Received 2 special recognitions for outstanding reviews for CHI 2026
Aug.2025
Gave an invited talk at Autodesk Research, Toronto titled ''Low-Effort and In-Situ Design for Personal Fabrication''
Jul.2025
Received 1 special recognition for outstanding reviews for UIST 2025
Apr.2025
Joined the HCI and Vis team at Autodesk Research in Toronto as a Postdoctoral Researcher: HCI+AI
Apr.2025
Dissertation is now publicly available online at the Open Access Repository of Ulm University and Ulm University of Applied Sciences (OPARU)
Jan.2025
Successfully defended my PhD dissertation titled 'Enabling Ubiquitous Personal Fabrication: Low-Effort and Expressive In-Situ Interactions Using Extended Reality'
Nov.2024
Received 2 special recognitions for outstanding reviews for CHI 2025
Sep.2024
Handed in my dissertation at Ulm University
May2024
Attended ACM CHI 2024 in Honolulu and presented our work 'DungonMaker'
May2024
Attended ACM CHI 2024 in Honolulu and presented our work 'pARam'
Jan.2024
2 Papers conditionally accepted to CHI 2024
Nov.2023
Attended ACM ISS 2023 in Pittsburgh and presented our work 'BrickStARt'
Nov.2023
Received 2 special recognitions for outstanding reviews for CHI 2024
Aug.2023
Held a preliminary presentation about my Dissertation plans at Ulm University
Jul.2023
Gave an invited talk at Saarland University, Human-Computer Interaction Lab titled ''Rethinking Computer-Aided Design for Low-Effort Personal Fabrication''
Jul.2023
Secured funding from the DFG (German Research Foundation) together with Prof. Rukzio for our lab to continue work on design tools for personal digital fabrication
Jul.2023
Attended ACM DIS 2023 in Pittsburgh and presented our work on Immersive Sampling
Jun.2023
Paper conditionally accepted to ISS 2023 / PACM
May2023
Paper conditionally accepted to DIS 2023
May2023
Received 1 special recognition for outstanding reviews for UIST 2023
Apr.2023
Attended ACM CHI 2023 in Hamburg
Mar.2023
Position paper for the workshop 'Future Paradigms for Electronics Toolkits' at CHI 2023 accepted
Feb.2023
Gave an invited talk at the University of Copenhagen, HCC Section titled ''Rethinking and Replacing 3D-Modeling for Low-Effort Personal Fabrication''
Nov.2022
Received 1 special recognition for outstanding reviews for CHI 2023
Jul.2022
Attended the Symposium on Geometry Processing 2022 (online)
May2022
Joined the HCI and Vis team at Autodesk Research in Toronto for a summer internship
May2022
Attended ACM CHI 2022 in New Orleans and presented our work 'ShapeFindAR'
Apr.2022
Attended and participated in the CHI 2022 workshop 'Reimagining Systems for Learning Hands-on Creative and Maker Skills'
Mar.2022
Gave an invited talk at the Hasso-Plattner Institute titled ''Exploring and Enabling Ubiquitous Personal Fabrication''
Feb.2022
Attended ACM TEI 2022 (online) and presented our work 'Ephemeral Fabrication'
Feb.2022
Paper conditionally accepted for publication at CHI 2022
Jan.2022
Serving as an associate chair (AC) for CHI 2022 Late-breaking Work
Nov.2021
Paper accepted for publication at TEI 2022
Nov.2021
Received 1 special recognition for outstanding reviews for CHI 2022
Nov.2021
Attended SUI 2021 (online)
Nov.2021
Attended the Interacting with Smart Objects and Immersive Environments Workshop in Munich
Oct.2021
Attended UIST 2021 (online)
Oct.2021
Participated in the UIST 2021 Doctoral Symposium (online)
Aug.2021
Attended SIGGRAPH 2021 (online)
Aug.2021
Extended abstract accepted for the 2021 UIST Doctoral Symposium
Jul.2021
Attended the Symposium on Geometry Processing 2021 (online)
Jul.2021
Received 1 special recognition for outstanding reviews for IMWUT 2021
Jun.2021
Served as a PC member for short papers at Mensch und Computer 2021 (MuC)
Jun.2021
Attended Maker Faire Hannover (online)
May2021
Attended Graphics Interface 2021 (online)
May2021
Attended ACM CHI 2021 (online)
Apr.2021
Received 1 special recognition for outstanding reviews for DIS 2021
Feb.2021
Attended ACM TEI 2021 (online)
Jan.2021
Paper published in IEEE Pervasive Computing
Nov.2020
Received 3 Special recognitions for outstanding reviews for CHI 2021
Nov.2020
Attended ACM SCF (online)
Oct.2020
Attended ACM UIST (online)
Sep.2020
Paper accepted to the special issue on pervasive manufacturing (to appear in IEEE Pervasive Computing)
Sep.2020
I am serving as a comittee member for TEI 2021 Work-in-Progress
Jun.2020
Co-authored paper accepted to UIST 2020
May2020
Presented our paper and participated in a panel discussion at the Virtual German CHI event
May2020
Presented our paper at the One Day Virtual CHI 2020: Fabrication Event
Mar.2020
Paper accepted to DIS 2020
Mar.2020
Received 2 Special Recognitions for Outstanding Reviews for DIS 2020
Feb.2020
Position paper for the workshop 'Where Art Meets Technology' at CHI 2020 accepted
Feb.2020
Paper accepted to AHs 2020
Dec.2019
Received 2 Special Recognitions for Outstanding Reviews for CHI 2020
Aug.2018
Paper Accepted to MUM 2018
Oct.2018
Attended UIST School
Oct.2018
Travelled to UIST 2018 in Berlin
Oct.2018
Received my Master's Degree
Aug.2018
Poster Accepted to UIST 2018
Jun.2018
Paper Accepted to ISWC 2018
Mar.2018
ShareVR received an honorable mention for best research demonstration at IEEE VR 2018.
Mar.2018
Travelled to IEEE VR in Reutlingen to present 2 demos.

This is an outline of successes and, therefore, omits everything that is not a success.