Jingyu Lee

I am an experimental computer systems researcher at the Human-Centered Computer Systems Lab. I envision future applications unconstrained by existing technologies, and realize them by building the supporting systems that make those futures executable — spanning mobile on-device intelligence, mixed reality frameworks, and spatial telepresence across separate physical spaces. My trajectory here has not been linear: I started as a proud DigiPen Dragons, professional game developer working on Minecraft: Education Edition at Microsoft Studios, then turned to medical imaging and 3D vision researcher during my master's.

Most of computing pulls people into screens. My research asks the opposite — how spatial computing can extend computation into physical space, so that it augments rather than displaces our experience of the real world. Realizing this requires a new kind of software platform: one that moves beyond passively sensing or simulating space, toward systems that interact with users and actuate the environment itself. I see this as a bridge between computer systems and architecture — where built environments are no longer static backgrounds but dynamic structures, co-designed with the computational layer that inhabits them.

Outside of research, I'm an avid yogi who enjoys getting lost in the city and in nature.