RyoSuzuki

  • Assistant Professor
  • PhD, Computer Science '20
  • ATLAS INSTITUTE
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Ryo Suzuki is an Assistant Professor at the ATLAS Institute and the Department of Computer Science at the ñ, where he leads the Programmable Reality Lab. Prior to joining ñ, he served as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Calgary. He earned his PhD in Computer Science from the ñ.

His research mission is to enhance human thought and creativity by transforming the entire living environment into a "dynamic space for thought", where people can think through tangible and spatial exploration with real objects in the real world, not with virtual objects on screens. His research has been published in top human-computer interaction and robotics conferences, including CHI, UIST, IROS, and ICRA, earning multiple awards. He has regularly served as a program committee member for CHI and UIST among others. Previously he also worked as a visiting researcher and research intern at Google, Adobe Research, Microsoft Research, Stanford University, UC Berkeley, the University of Tokyo, and Tohoku University.

Ryo Suzuki is the director of the Programmable Reality Lab at the ATLAS Institute.

Projects

Publications

Suibi Che-Chuan Weng, Shih-Yu Ma, Sawyer Reinig, Pritalee Kadam, Ada Yi Zhao, Amy Banić, Ryo Suzuki, and Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2026. "". In: Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ’26). (Singapore, June 13–17, 2026).

Dong-Uk Kim, Hye-Young Jo, Hankyung Kim, Ryo Suzuki, Seungwoo Je, and Yoonji Kim. 2026. "". In: Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26). (Barcelona, Spain, April 13-17, 2026).

Matthew Brehmer, Maxime Cordeil, Christophe Hurter, Takayuki Itoh, Wolfgang Büschel, Mahmood Jasim, Arnaud Prouzeau, David Saffo, Lyn Bartram, Sheelagh Carpendale, Chen Zhu-Tian, Andrew Cunningham, Tim Dwyer, Samuel Huron, Masahiko Itoh, Alark Joshi, Kiyoshi Kiyokawa, Hideaki Kuzuoka, Bongshin Lee, Gabriela Molina León, Harald Reiterer, Bektur Ryskeldiev, Jonathan Schwabish, Brian A. Smith, Yasuyuki Sumi, Ryo Suzuki, Anthony Tang, Yalong Yang, and Jian Zhao. 2026. . In: Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26). (Barcelona, Spain, April 13-17, 2026).

DaeHo Lee, Ryo Suzuki, and Jin-Hyuk Hong. 2026. "". In: Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26). (Barcelona, Spain, April 13-17, 2026).

Mehrad Faridan, Takashige Suzuki, Takafumi Kanaya, Ryo Suzuki, and Hideaki Kuzuoka. 2026. "". In: Proceedings of the Augmented Humans International Conference 2026 (AHs '26). (Okinawa, Japan, March 16-19, 2026).

Aditya Gunturu, Shivesh Singh Jadon, Nandi Zhang, Morteza Faraji, Jarin Thundathil, Wesley Willett, andRyo Suzuki. 2025. “”. In:Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI '25). (Montreal, QB, November 10-11, 2025)

Kazuma Ikeda, Yuki Hayakawa,Ryo Suzuki, Shota Nagai, Ozora Sako, Rokuto Nagata. 2025. “.” In:IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. (October 9, 2025)

Boyu Li, Linjie Qiu, Duotun Wang, Qianxi Liu,Ryo Suzuki, Mingming Fan, and Zeyu Wang. 2025. “”. In:Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction,Volume 9, Issue 7. (October 16, 2025)

Aditya Gunturu, Ben Pearman, Keiichi Ihara, Morteza Faraji, Bryan Wang, Rubaiat Habib Kazi and Ryo Suzuki. 2025. "". In: ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST'2025) (Busan, Republic of Korea, Sep 28 - Oct 1, 2025)

Ada Yi Zhao, Aditya Gunturu, Ellen Yi-Luen Do and Ryo Suzuki. 2025. "". In: ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST'2025) (Busan, Republic of Korea, Sep 28 - Oct 1, 2025)

Kentaro Takahira, Yue Yu, Takanori Fujiwara, Ryo Suzuki and Huamin Qu. 2025. "". In: Proceedings of the 38th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST'2025) (Busan, Republic of Korea, Sep 28 - Oct 1, 2025)

Riku Arakawa, Franklin Mingzhe Li, Nandi Zhang, Mina Huh, Amy Pavel, Ryo Suzuki, Patrick Carrington, and Yukang Yan. 2025. “”. In:Adjunct Proceedings of the 38th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology(UIST Adjunct '25). (September 27, 2025)

Ryo Suzuki, Parastoo Abtahi, Cheng Zhu-Tian, Mustafa Doga Dogan, Andrea Colaco, Eric J. Gonzalez, Karan Ahuja Mar and Gonzalez-Franco. 2025. “”. In:Frontiers in Virtual Reality: Augmented Reality Volume 6. (September 8, 2025)

Nandi Zhang, Yukang Yan andRyo Suzuki. 2025. “”. In:Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '25). (April 16 - May 1, Yokohama, Japan)

Ryo Suzuki, Mar Gonzalez-Franco, Misha Sra and David Lindlbauer. 2025. “”. In:Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '25). (April 16 - May 1, Yokohama, Japan)

Marcus KE Friedel, Zachary McKendrick, Ehud Sharlin, Ryo Suzuki. 2025. “”. In: IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics Volume: 31, Issue: 5. (March 21, 2025).

Keiichi Ihara, Kyzyl Monteiro, Mehrad Faridan, Rubaiat Habib Kazi, Ryo Suzuki. 2025. “”. In: IUI '25: Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces. (Cagliari, Italy, March 24 - 27, 2025).

Ryo Suzuki, Mar Gonzalez-Franco, Misha Sra, David Lindlbauer. 2025. "". In: CHI 2025 Extended Abstract. (Forthcoming.)

Panayu Keelawat, Ryo Suzuki. 2024.Transforming Procedural Instructions into In-Situ Augmented Reality Guides with InstructAR. In:Adjunct Proceedings of the 37th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST Adjunct 2024), (Pittsburgh, PA, October 13-16, 2024).

Wanli Qian, Chenfeng Gao, Anup Sathya, Ryo Suzuki, Ken Nakagaki. 2024..In:Proceedings of the 37th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST 2024), (September 10, 2024).

Aditya Gunturu, Yi Wen, Nandi Zhang, Jarin Thundathil, Rubaiat Habib Kazi, Ryo Suzuki. 2024.. In:Proceedings of the 37th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST 2024), (August 10, 2024).

Jian Liao, Kevin Van, Zhijie Xia and Ryo Suzuki. 2024. "".In:Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '24). (Copenhagen, Denmark, July 1-5, 2024).

Rasmus Skovhus Lunding, Mille Skovhus Lunding, Tiare Feuchtner, Marianne Graves Petersen, Kaj Grønbæk and Ryo Suzuki. 2024. "".In:Proceedings of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '24). (Boulder, CO, May 11-16, 2024).

Kongpyung (Justin) Moon, Zofia Marciniak, Ryo Suzuki and Andrea Bianchi. 2024. "".In:Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '24). (Honolulu, HI, May 11-16, 2024).

Hye-Young Jo, Ryo Suzuki and Yoonji Kim. 2024. "".In:Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '24). (Honolulu, HI, May 11-16, 2024).

Ryota Gomi, Ryo Suzuki, Kazuki Takashima, Kazuyuki Fujita and Yoshifumi Kitamura. 2024. "".In:Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '24). (Honolulu, HI, March 11-15, 2024).

Suzuki, Ryo & Karim, Adnan & Xia, Tian & Hedayati, Hooman & Marquardt, Nicolai. (2022). Augmented Reality and Robotics: A Survey and Taxonomy for AR-enhanced Human-Robot Interaction and Robotic Interfaces.InProceedings ofCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’22). (New Orleans, LA—April 30-May 5, 2022).

Hooman Hedayati, RyoSuzuki, Wyatt Rees, Daniel Leithinger, and Daniel Szafir. 2022. . Frontiers in Robotics and AI. vol. 9. DOI=10.3389/frobt.2022.719639 (April 11, 2022).

Ryo Suzuki, Eyal Ofek, Mike Sinclair,Daniel Leithinger, and Mar Gonzalez-Franco. 2021.. InThe Adjunct Publication of the 34th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 131–133. DOI:(Virtual–Oct.10-14, 2021).

Hooman Hedayati, Ryo Suzuki, Daniel Leithinger, Daniel J. Szafir. 2020. PufferBot: Actuated Expandable Structures for Aerial Robots. In Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2020). DOI: . (Las Vegas, Nevada–Oct.25-29, 2020) .

Ryo Suzuki, Rubaiat Habib Kazi, Li-Yi Wei, Stephen DiVerdi, Wilmot Li, andDaniel Leithinger. 2020. RealitySketch: Embedding Responsive Graphics and Visualizations in AR through Dynamic Sketching. InProceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '20). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 16 pages. DOI:(Minneapolis, Minnesota–Oct. 20-23, 2020)[Honorable Mention Paper Award].

Ryo Suzuki,Hooman Hedayati,Clement Zheng, James Bohn,Daniel Szafir,Ellen Yi-Luen Do,Mark D Gross, andDaniel Leithinger. 2020. RoomShift: Room-scale Dynamic Haptics for VR with Furniture-moving Swarm Robots. InProceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '20). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Paper 396, 11 pages. DOI: (Honolulu, Hawaii–April 25-30, 2020).

Ryo Suzuki, Ryosuke Nakayama, Dan Liu, Yasuaki Kakehi,Mark D. Gross, andDaniel Leithinger. 2020. LiftTiles: Constructive Building Blocks for Prototyping Room-scale Shape-changing Interfaces. InProceedings of the 14th ACM International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI '20). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Pages 143–151. DOI:(Sydney, Australia–Feb. 9-12, 2020).

Ryo Suzuki, Ryosuke Nakayama, Dan Liu, Yasuaki Kakehi,Mark D. Gross, andDaniel Leithinger.2019.LiftTiles: Modular and Reconfigurable Room-scale Shape Displays through Retractable Inflatable Actuators.In Adjunct Proceedings of the 32nd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '19).ACM, New York, NY, USA,1-3. DOI: (New Orleans, Louisiana – Oct. 20-23, 2019).

Ryo Suzuki,Clement Zheng, Yasuaki Kakehi,Tom Yeh,Ellen Yi-Luen Do,Mark D. Gross,Daniel Leithinger. 2019. ShapeBots: Shape-changing Swarm Robots. In Proceedings of The 32nd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST'19). (New Orleans, Louisiana—Oct. 20-23, 2019).

Ryosuke Nakayama, Ryo Suzuki, Satoshi Nakamaru, Ryuma Niiyama, Yoshihiro Kawahara, and Yasuaki Kakehi. 2019. MorphIO: Entirely Soft Sensing and Actuation Modules for Programming Shape Changes through Tangible Interaction. InProceedings of the 2019 on Designing Interactive Systems Conference(DIS '19). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 975-986. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3322276.3322337. [Best Paper Award].

Ryo Suzuki, Junichi Yamaoka,Daniel Leithinger,Tom Yeh,Mark D. Gross, Yoshihiro Kawahara, Yasuaki Kakehi. 2018.Dynablock: Dynamic 3D Printing for Instant and Reconstructable Shape Formation. InProceedings of The 31st Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST'18).DOI:(Berlin, Germany—Oct.14-17, 2018).

Ryo Suzuki, Koji Yatani, Mark D. Gross, Tom Yeh. 2018.Explorable Design for 3D Printing Textures. InProceedings of The 26th Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (Pacific Graphics'18).DOI: https://diglib.eg.org/handle/10.2312/pg20181273 (Hong Kong–Oct. 8-11, 2018).

Ryo Suzuki,Jun Kato,Mark D. Gross,Tom Yeh.2018..InProceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems(CHI '18). DOI:(Montreal, Canada–April 21-26, 2018).

Hyunjoo Oh, Tung D. Ta,Ryo Suzuki,Mark D. Gross, Yoshihiro Kawahara, and Lining Yao. 2018.. InProceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems(CHI '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Paper 441, 12 pages. DOI:(Montreal, Canada–April 21-26, 2018).

Ryo Suzuki, Abigale Stangl, Mark D. Gross, andTom Yeh. 2017.. InProceedings of the 19th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility(ASSETS '17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 190-199. DOI:(Baltimore, Maryland–Oct.20-Nov.1, 2017).