Xing-Dong Yang is an Associate Professor and Visual Computing Chair of Computer Science at Simon Fraser University, Canada. His research is broadly in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), where he creates interactive systems using novel sensing techniques and haptics to enable new user experiences within smart physical and virtual environments. Xing-Dong’s work is recognized through a Best Paper award at UIST 2019, eight Honorable Mention awards with one at UIST 2020, six at CHI (2010, 2016, 2018, 2019 × 2, 2020), and one at MobileHCI 2009. Aside from academic publications, Xing-Dong’s work attracts major public interest via news coverage from a variety of media outlets with different mediums, including TV (e.g., Discovery Daily Planet), print (e.g., The Wall Street Journal, Forbes), and Internet News (e.g., MIT Technology Review, New Scientist).