
I am a senior researcher at Microsoft Research (Cambridge UK) where I lead the interactive 3D technologies (I3D) group. This is an extremely multi-discipline group, which straddles many boundaries including human-computer interaction, augmented reality, applied computer vision and graphics, electronics, signal processing, and optics. I also hold a visiting professorship at UCL in the Virtual Environments and Computer Graphics (VECG) group.
My research focuses on building new technologies and systems that push the boundaries of human-computer interaction (HCI). This typically involves building new types of cameras, sensors or displays; creating practical algorithms and techniques for these types of novel technologies; as well as designing new user experiences that are enabled through this technical research.
A tiny bit more navel gazing: I’ve been at Microsoft Research over 8 years, spent time at Xerox PARC before and did a PhD with Tom Rodden and Yvonne Rogers working on the EQUATOR project. I was awarded a TR35 in 2009 and a Microsoft Next award in 2012. I’ve served on the organisational committee for ACM UIST, CHI, Ubicomp, TEI, ITS, ISMAR and CSCW. I co-chaired TEI’08 and ITS’08. I’m now co-chairing UIST 2013 (in beautiful St. Andrews!) and the Interaction Technology and Techniques subcommittee for CHI'13 and CHI’14.
My work has led to over 70 research papers (see DBLP & Scholar), and over 70 patents. These include 3 best paper awards at UIST, and paper awards at CHI, ISMAR, Pervasive, CSCW and Ubicomp.
News:
- Otmar Hilliges and I are looking for talented people to apply for joint ETHZ and Microsoft Research PhDs or postdocs.
- We have just launched two new features as part of the Kinect for Windows SDK: Kinect Fusion (our work on 3D reconstruction with a Kinect) and Kinect Interactions (our work on hand state detection).
- A record number of submissions to UIST 2013 (317 papers)!
- Three new people have joined I3D: David Kim (HCI, UI technologies), Cem Keskin (machine learning, computer vision, gesture and hand tracking), Matthias Niessner (computer graphics, GPU programming).
- Our paper on scalable KinectFusion will be appearing at SIGGRAPH 2013. Stay tuned for a project page.
- Our paper on an 8D light field display will be appearing at CHI 2013 (in collaboration with MIT Media Lab).
- Our paper on camera relocalization will be appearing at CVPR 2013. Stay tuned for a project page.
- Our Augmented Projectors work was awarded best paper at Pervasive 2012.
- Our KinecTrack paper at ISMAR 2012 was awarded best paper runner up.
- Our work on Digits won best demo runner up at UIST 2012.
2013
- Jamie Shotton, Ben Glocker, Christopher Zach, Shahram Izadi, Antonio Criminisi, and Andrew Fitzgibbon, Scene Coordinate Regression Forests for Camera Relocalization in RGB-D Images, in Proc. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), IEEE, June 2013
2012
- Otmar Hilliges, David Kim, Shahram Izadi, Malte Weiss, and Andrew D. Wilson, HoloDesk: Direct 3D Interactions with a Situated See-Through Display, in SIGCHI Annual Conference on Human factors in computing systems, ACM, May 2012
- David Kim, Otmar Hilliges, Shahram Izadi, Alex Butler, Jiawen Chen, Iason Oikonomidis, and Patrick Olivier, Digits: Freehand 3D Interactions Anywhere Using a Wrist-Worn Gloveless Sensor, ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, 2012
- D. Molyneaux, S. Izadi, D. Kim, O. Hilliges, S. Hodges, X. Cao, A. Butler, and H. Gellersen, Interactive Environment-Aware Handheld Projectors for Pervasive Computing Spaces, in Pervasive Computing, Springer Berlin/Heidelberg, 2012
- D.A. Butler, S. Izadi, O. Hilliges, D. Molyneaux, S. Hodges, and D. Kim, Shake'n'sense: reducing interference for overlapping structured light depth cameras, in Proceedings of the 2012 ACM annual conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2012
- Jiawen Chen, Shahram Izadi, and Andrew Fitzgibbon, KinÊtre: Animating the World with the Human Body, ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, 2012
- Dustin Freeman, Otmar Hilliges, Abigail Sellen, Kenton O'Hara, Shahram Izadi, and Ken Woodberry, The Role of Physical Controllers in Motion Video Gaming, in Designing Interactive Systems (DIS 2012), ACM, 2012
- Paul McIlroy, Shahram Izadi, and Andrew Fitzgibbon, Kinectrack: Agile 6-DoF tracking using a projected dot pattern, in Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), 2012 IEEE International Symposium on, 2012
- Andrew Wilson, Hrvoje Benko, Shahram Izadi, and Otmar Hilliges, Steerable augmented reality with the beamatron, in Proceedings of the 25th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology, 2012
- David Kirk, Shahram Izadi, Abigail Sellen, Richard Banks, Otmar Hilliges, and Stuart Taylor, At home with surface computing, in Proceedings of CHI 2012, ACM, 2012
2011
- Shahram Izadi, David Kim, Otmar Hilliges, David Molyneaux, Richard Newcombe, Pushmeet Kohli, Jamie Shotton, Steve Hodges, Dustin Freeman, Andrew Davison, and Andrew Fitzgibbon, KinectFusion: Real-time 3D Reconstruction and Interaction Using a Moving Depth Camera, ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, October 2011
- Richard A. Newcombe, Shahram Izadi, Otmar Hilliges, David Molyneaux, David Kim, Andrew J. Davison, Pushmeet Kohli, Jamie Shotton, Steve Hodges, and Andrew Fitzgibbon, KinectFusion: Real-Time Dense Surface Mapping and Tracking, in IEEE ISMAR, IEEE, October 2011
- Scott Davidoff, Nicolas Villar, Alex S. Taylor, and Shahram Izadi, Mechanical hijacking: how robots can accelerate UbiComp deployments, in UbiComp '11: Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Ubiquitous computing, ACM, New York, NY, USA, September 2011
- Shahram Izadi, Richard Newcombe, David Kim, Otmar Hilliges, David Molyneaux, Steve Hodges, Pushmeet Kohli, Andrew Davison, and Andrew Fitzgibbon, KinectFusion: Real-Time Dynamic 3D Surface Reconstruction and Interaction, ACM SIGGRAPH, August 2011
- Hyunyoung Song, Hrvoje Benko, Francois Guimbretiere, Shahram Izadi, Xiang Cao, and Ken Hinckley, Grips and Gestures on a Multi-Touch Pen, ACM Conference on Human Factors for Computing Systems (CHI), 2011, 9 May 2011
- A. Butler, O. Hilliges, S. Izadi, S. Hodges, D. Molyneaux, D. Kim, and D. Kong, Vermeer: direct interaction with a 360° viewable 3D display, in Proceedings of the 24th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology, 2011
2010
- James Scott, Shahram Izadi, Leila Sadat Rezai, Dominika Ruszkowski, Xiaojun Bi, and Ravin Balakrishnan, RearType: Text Entry Using Keys on the Back of a Device, in Proceedings of MobileHCI 2010, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., September 2010
- Xiang Cao, Nicolas Villar, and Shahram Izadi, Comparing user performance with single-finger, whole-hand, and hybrid pointing devices, in Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Human factors in computing systems , Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., April 2010
- Philip Tuddenham, David Kirk, and Shahram Izadi, Graspables revisited: multi-touch vs. tangible input for tabletop displays in acquisition and manipulation tasks, in Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Human factors in computing systems , Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., April 2010
- Xing-Dong Yang, Edward Mak, David McCallum, Pourang Irani, Xiang Cao, and Shahram Izadi, LensMouse: augmenting the mouse with an interactive touch display, in Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Human factors in computing systems , Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., April 2010
- Dave Kirk, Shahram Izadi, Abigail Sellen, Stuart Taylor, Richard Banks, and Otmar Hilliges, Opening Up the Family Archive, in Proceedings of ACM Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Work (CSCW 2010), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., February 2010
- O. Hilliges, A. Butz, S. Izadi, and A. Wilson, Interaction on the Tabletop: Bringing the Physical to the Digital, in Tabletops - Horizontal Interactive Displays, Springer Verlag, 2010
2009
- Shahram Izadi, Steve Hodges, Alex Butler, Darren West, Alban Rrustemi, Mike Molloy, and William Buxton, ThinSight: a thin form-factor interactive surface technology, in Communications of the ACM , vol. 52, no. 12, pp. 90-98, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., December 2009
- Jonathan Hook, Stuart Taylor, Alex Butler, Nicolas Villar, and Shahram Izadi, A Reconfigurable Ferromagnetic Input Device, in Proceeding of UIST 2009, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 4 October 2009
- Otmar Hilliges, Shahram Izadi, Andrew D. Wilson, Steve Hodges, Armando Garcia-Mendoza, and Andreas Butz, Interactions in the Air: Adding Further Depth to Interactive Tabletops , in Proceedings of 22nd ACM Symposium on User Interface and Software Technologies (ACM UIST 2009), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., October 2009
- Nicolas Villar, Shahram Izadi, Dan Rosenfeld, Hrvoje Benko, John Helmes, Jonathan Westhues, Steve Hodges, Eyal Ofek, Alex Butler, Xiang Cao, and Billy Chen, Mouse 2.0: Multi-touch meets the mouse., in Proceedings of UIST 2009, ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology. p. 33-42. UIST 2009 Best Paper Award., Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., October 2009
- David Kirk, Abigail Sellen, Stuart Taylor, Nicolas Villar, and Shahram Izadi, Putting the Physical into the Digital:Issues in Designing Hybrid Interactive Surfaces, in In Proceedings of BCS HCI 2009, Cambridge University Press, 1 September 2009
- Stuart Taylor, Shahram Izadi, David Kirk, Richard Harper, and Armando Garcia-Mendoza, Turning the Tables: An Interactive Surface for VJing, in Proceeding of CHI 2009, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 8 April 2009
- Nicolas Villar, Shahram Izadi, Mike Fraser, and Steve Benford, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction 2009, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., February 2009
- Aaron Quigley, Sriram Subramanian, and Shahram Izadi, Special issue on interaction with coupled and public displays, in Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, vol. 13, no. 8, pp. 549-550, Springer Verlag, 2009
2008
- Shahram Izadi, Steve Hodges, Stuart Taylor, Dan Rosenfeld, Nicolas Villar, Alex Butler, and Jonathan Westhues, Going Beyond the Display: A Surface Technology with an Electronically Switchable Diffuser, in ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '08), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 19 October 2008
- Shahram Izadi, Alex Butler, Steve Hodges, Darren West, Malcolm Hall, Bill Buxton, and Mike Molloy, Experiences with building a thin form-factor touch and tangible tabletop, in Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Horizontal Interactive Human-Computer Systems (TableTop 08), IEEE, October 2008
- Andrew D. Wilson, Shahram Izadi, Otmar Hilliges, Armando Garcia-Mendoza, and David Kirk, Bringing physics to the surface, in Proceedings of the 21st annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology (ACM UIST 2008) , Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., October 2008
- Alex Butler, Shahram Izadi, and Steve Hodges, SideSight: multi-"touch" interaction around small devices, in Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '08), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., October 2008
- Otmar Hilliges, David Kim, and Shahram Izadi, Creating malleable interactive surfaces using liquid displacement sensing, in Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Horizontal Interactive Human Computer Systems (TABLETOP 2008), IEEE, October 2008
- Richard Harper, tim regan, Shahram Izadi, Kharsim Al Mosawi, Mark Rouncefield, and Simon Rubens, Trafficking: design for the viral exchange of TV content on mobile phones, no. MSR-TR-2008-88, June 2008
- Rui José, Nuno Otero, Shahram Izadi, and Richard Harper, Instant Places: Using Bluetooth for Situated Interaction in Public Displays, in Pervasive Computing, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 52-57, IEEE, 2008
2007
- Stuart Taylor, Shahram Izadi, Kursat Ozenc, and Richard Harper, VideoPlay: Playful and Social Editing of Video using Tangible Objects and Multi-touch Interaction, in IEEE International Workshop on Horizontal Interactive Human-Computer Systems (TABLETOP '07), IEEE, 10 October 2007
- Steve Hodges, Shahram Izadi, Alex Butler, Alban Rrustemi, and Bill Buxton, ThinSight: versatile multi-touch sensing for thin form-factor displays, in UIST '07: Proceedings of the 20th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology, Newport, Rhode Island, USA, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., New York, NY, USA, October 2007
- Ankur Agarwal, Shahram Izadi, Manmohan Chandraker, and Andrew Blake, High Precision Multi-touch Sensing on Surfaces using Overhead Cameras, in Second IEEE International Workshop on Horizontal Interactive Human-Computer Systems (Tabletop 2007), IEEE, October 2007
- Alex S. Taylor, R. Harper, Laurel Swan, Shahram Izadi, Abigail Sellen, and Mark Perry, Homes that make us smart, in Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, vol. 11, no. 5, pp. 383-393, Springer Verlag, June 2007
- A. Bilgen and S. Izadi, Using Cellphones to Interact with Public Displays from a Distance, in Adjunct Proceedings of Pervasive Computing, 5th International Conference (PERVASIVE 2007), Springer Verlag, May 2007
- Lucia Terrenghi, David Kirk, Abigail Sellen, and Shahram Izadi, Affordances for Manipulation of Physical versus Digital Media on Interactive Surfaces, in Proceedings of CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., April 2007
- Barry Brown, Alex Taylor, Shahram Izadi, Abigail Sellen, Joseph Jofish’ Kaye, and Rachel Eardley, Locating family values: A field trial of the Whereabouts Clock, in Proceedings of Ubicomp 2007, Springer-Verlag, 2007
- Shahram Izadi, Steve Hodges, Alex Butler, Alban Rrustemi, and Bill Buxton, ThinSight: integrated optical multi-touch sensing through thin form-factor displays, in EDT '07: Proceedings of the 2007 workshop on Emerging displays technologies, ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2007
- Steve Hodges, Shahram Izadi, Alex Butler, and Alban Rrustemi, ThinSight: A new interaction technology for ubicomp, in In Adjunct proceedings of 9th international Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, 2007
- Shahram Izadi, Ankur Agarwal, Antonio Criminisi, John Winn, Andrew Blake, and Andrew Fitzgibbon, C-Slate: A Multi-Touch and Object Recognition System for Remote Collaboration using Horizontal Surfaces, in Proceedings of the Second Annual IEEE International Workshop on Horizontal Interactive Human-Computer Systems (Tabletop 2007), IEEE, 2007
2006
- Steve Hodges, Lyndsay Williams, Emma Berry, Shahram Izadi, James Srinivasan, Alex Butler, Gavin Smyth, Narinder Kapur, and Ken Wood, SenseCam: A Retrospective Memory Aid, in Proceedings of the 8th International Conference of Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2006), Springer Verlag, September 2006
- A. Taylor, S. Izadi, L. Swan, B. Buxton, and R. Harper, Building Bowls for Miscellaneous Media, in Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Physicality (Physicality 2006), July 2006
- Steve Hodges and Shahram Izadi, wasp: a platform for prototyping ubiquitous computing devices, in Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Software Engineering Challenges for Ubiquitous Computing, , April 2006
- Abigail Sellen, Richard Harper, Rachel Eardley, S. Izadi, Tim Regan, Alex S. Taylor, and Kenneth R. Wood, HomeNote: Supporting Situated messaging in the home, in Proceedings of the 2006 20th anniversary conference on Computer supported cooperative work (CSCW '06), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., Banff, Canada, 2006
- W. Keith Edwards, Mark W. Newman, Jana Sedivy, Trevor Smith, and Shahram Izadi, Challenge: recombinant computing and the speakeasy approach, in Proceedings of the 8th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking , Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2006
- Abigail Sellen, Rachel Eardley, Shahram Izadi, and Richard Harper, The whereabouts clock: early testing of a situated awareness device, in CHI '06 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems , Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2006
2005
- Keith Edwards, Mark Newman, Trevor Smith, Jana Sedivy, and Shahram Izadi, An extensible set-top box platform for home media applications, in IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, IEEE, November 2005
- Shahram Izadi, Geraldine Fitzpatrick, Tom Rodden, Harry Brignull, Yvonne Rogers, and Sian Lindley, The iterative design and study of a large display for shared and sociable spaces, in Proceedings of the 2005 Conference on Designing For User Experience , Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., November 2005
- L. Swan, S. Izadi, A. Taylor, R. Harper, and A. Sellen, Rethinking the "Smart" Home, in Proceedings of IEEE International Workshop on Intelligent Environments, IEEE, June 2005
- Paul Duff, Michael McCarthy, Angus Clark, Henk Muller, Cliff Randell, Shahram Izadi, Andy Boucher, Andy Law, Sarah Pennington, and Richard Swinford, A New Method for Auto-calibrated Object Tracking, in Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2005), Springer Verlag, 2005
2004
- Harry Brignull, Shahram Izadi, Geraldine Fitzpatrick, Yvonne rogers, and Tom Rodden, The introduction of a shared interactive surface into a communal space, in Proceedings of the 2004 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work , Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., November 2004
- C. Greenhalgh, S. Izadi, J. Mathrick, J. Humble, and I. Taylor, ECT: A Toolkit to Support Rapid Construction of Ubicomp Environments, in Proceedings of Workshop on System Support for Ubiquitous Computing [Part of UbiComp 2004], Springer Verlag, 2004
- S. Izadi, H. Brignull, G. Fitzpatrick, Y. Rogers, and T. Rodden, Studying the Use of a Large Interactive Surface within a Social Setting, in Proceedings of Workshop on Ubiquitous Systems for Supporting Social Interaction and Face-to-Face Communication in Public Spaces (UbiComp 2004), Springer Verlag, 2004
2003
- Shahram Izadi, Harry Brignull, Tom Rodden, Yvonne Rogers, and Mia Underwood, Dynamo: a public interactive surface supporting the cooperative sharing and exchange of media, in Proceedings of the 16th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology (UIST '03), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., November 2003
2002
- W. Keith Edwards, Mark W. Newman, Jana Z. Sedivy, Trevor F. Smith, Dirk Balfanz, D.K. Smetters, H. Chi Wong, and Shahram Izadi, Using speakeasy for ad hoc peer-to-peer collaboration, in Proceedings of the 2002 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work, New Orleans, November 16 - 20, 2002., Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., November 2002
- Mark W. Newman, Shahram Izadi, W. Keith Edwards, Jana Sedivy, and Trevor Smith, User interfaces when and where they are needed: an infrastructure for recombinant computing, in Proceedings of the 15th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology, Paris, October 27 - 30, 2002 , Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., October 2002
- Shahram Izadi, Mike Fraser, Steve Benford, Martin Flintham, Chris Greenhalgh, Tom Rodden, and Holger Schnadelbach, Citywide: Supporting Interactive Digital Experiences Across Physical Space, in Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 290-298, Springer Verlag, September 2002
- Holger Schnädelbach, Boriana Keleva, Martin Flintham, Mike Fraser, Shahram Izadi, Paul Chandler, Malcolm Foster, Steve Benford, Chris Greenhalgh, and Tom Rodden, The augurscope: a mixed reality interface for outdoors, in Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems: Changing our world, changing ourselves , Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., April 2002
- Shahram Izadi, Pedro Coutinho, Tom Rodden, and Gareth Smith, The FUSE Platform: Supporting Ubiquitous Collaboration Within Diverse Mobile Environments, in Automated Software Engineering, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 167-186, Springer Verlag, April 2002
- Mark W. Newman, Jana Z. Sedivy, Christine M. Neuwirth, W. Keith Edwards, Jason I. Hong, Shahram Izadi, Karen Marcelo, and Trevor Smith, Designing for serendipity: supporting end-user configuration of ubiquitous computing environments, in Proceedings of the 4th conference on Designing interactive systems: processes, practices, methods, and techniques, London, June 25 - 28, 2002., Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2002
2001
- Tony Hall, Luigina Ciolfi, Liam Bannon, Mike Fraser, Steve Benford, John Bowers, Chris Greenhalgh, Sten-Olof Hellström, Shahram Izadi, Holger Schnädelbach, and Martin Flintham, The visitor as virtual archaeologist: explorations in mixed reality technology to enhance educational and social interaction in the museum, in Proceedings of the 2001 conference on Virtual reality, archeology, and cultural heritage; Glyfada, Greece, November 28 - 30, 2001, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., November 2001
- Steve Benford, John Bowers, Paul Chandler, Luigina Ciolfi, Martin Flintham, Mike Fraser, Chris Greenhalgh, Tony Hall, Sten Olof Hellström, Shahram Izadi, Tom Rodden, Holger Schnädelbach, and Ian Taylor, Unearthing Virtual History: Using Diverse Interfaces to Reveal Hidden Virtual Worlds, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2001), Atlanta Georgia, USA, September 30–October 2, Springer Verlag, 2001




















