My name is Xue Teng. I am currently a postdoctoral visitor at York University, working with Prof. Rob Allison and Prof. Laurie M Wilcox. My research focuses on the usage of extended reality (XR), including virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and augmented virtuality (AV). My most recent projects involve multi user interaction, aviation simulation, user wellness, discomfort and safety.

As a multidisciplinary researcher, I have published in top-tier conferences/journals in all my research areas, including IEEE VR, The Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS), and The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). As of Sep 2024, my publications have 1561 citations based on Google Scholar. I'm the Vice Chair of IEEE Computer Society, Toronto Chapter.

I got my PhD in Biomedical Engineering from School of Chemical & Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore in 2014. My supervisors were Professor Huang Ling and Professor Song Hao. I got my Bachelor's degree from Nankai University, China, in 2009.

Project Demos:

Gain distortion affect users' performance on depth judgement in VR [Full Presentation]

Prolonged dancing in VR does not increase the risk of fall or motion sickness symptom onsite

Two users collaborate in a common AR environment

Adaptation to gain distortion in a Digital Twin of our lab space

Research interests:

The role of Extended Reality (XR) and stereopsis in aviation simulation

XR interaction and perception between physical and remote presences

Inclusive XR: fall risk assessment, instability prediction, user wellness & safety

Shared Affordance and spatial consistency in Virtual, Augmented, Mixed and Extended Reality

Top News

[Research] Upcoming, I'm submitting a journal paper to Scientific Report on Motion Perception.

[Teaching] Upcoming - 5/2025, I will be the course director for LE/EECS 1015 Introduction to Computer Science and Programming.

[Research] 2/2025, I'm awarded the prestigious VISTA Postdoctoral Transition Fellowship.

[IEEE] 12/2024, we are organizing a seminar entitled "An Information Theoretic approach to Conformal Prediction".

[Research] 10/2024, abstract accepted at VIMS 2024 as Oral presentation.

[IEEE] 2/2024, we're organizing Workshop on 3D Multimedia Analytics, Search and Generation at ICME 2024.

[Teaching] 5/2024, I become the course director for LE/EECS 1015 Introduction to Computer Science and Programming.

[Teaching] 9/2023, I become the course director for GL/PSYC 3690 Perception, York University, Course Director.

[Research] 3/2023, I'm going to present our work at IEEE VR, Shanghai.

[Teaching] 7/2023, We are organizing CVR – VISTA Vision Science Summer School.

Publications (Google Scholar)

Conference Publications

• X. Teng, L. Wilcox, and R. Allison, Postural Responses After Gain Adaptation in VR, 8th International Conference on Visually Induced Motion Sensations, Toronto, Canada, 2024
• I. Gunasekera, X. Teng, F. Afolabi, R. Abadi, R. Allison, and L. Wilcox, Perception of the Relative Size of Volumetric Shapes in Virtual Reality, 46th European Conference on Visual Perception, Aberdeen, Scotland, 2024.
• X. Teng, L. Wilcox, and R. Allison, Gain Adaptation in Virtual Reality, 24th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), Florida, USA, 2024.
• X. Teng, R. Allison, and L. Wilcox, Increasing Parallactic Change Compresses Depth and Perceived Distance, 23rd Scottish Vision Group (SVG), Dundee, Scotland, 2023.
• X. Teng, R. Allison, and L. Wilcox, Manipulation of Motion Parallax Gain Distorts Perceived Distance and Object Depth in Virtual Reality, 2023 IEEE Conference Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR), Shanghai, China, 2023.
• X. Teng, R. Allison, and L. Wilcox, “Increasing motion parallax gain compresses space and 3D object shape”, 23rd Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), 2023.
• X. Teng, L. M. Wilcox, and R. Allison, Binocular cues to depth and distance enhance tolerance to visual and kinesthetic mismatch, 22nd Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), 2022.
• X. Teng, L. Wilcox, and R. Allison, Interpretation of Depth from Scaled Motion Parallax in Virtual Reality, 21st Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), 2021.
• P. Dai, F. Gwadry-Sridhar, M. Bauer, M. Borrie and X. Teng, Healthy Cognitive Aging: a hybrid random vector functional-link model for the analysis of Alzheimer's disease, the Thirty-First AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-17), San Francisco, California USA, 4-9 Feb, 2017. (acceptance rate 24.6%, 638/2590) (paper)
• P. Dai, F. Gwadry-Sridhar, M. Bauer, M. Borrie, and X. Teng, Longitudinal Brain Structure Changes in Health/MCI Patients: A Deep Learning Approach for the Diagnosis and Prognosis of Alzheimer's Disease, Alzheimer's Association International Conference (AAIC), Toronto, ON, Canada, 24-27 July, 2016. (Poster)
• X. Teng, P. Dai, F. Gwadry-Sridhar, M. Borrie, Clinical Feature Vs Artificial Intelligence Feature: Risk Factor Analysis Based on Deep Learning, Alzheimer's Association International Conference (AAIC), Toronto, ON, Canada, 24-27 July, 2016.

Journal Publications

• F. Gwadry-Sridhar, H. McConkey, X. Teng, and D. S. Ernst, The National Melanoma Research Registry: A Fundamental for Disease Characterization and Epidemiology, Annals of Oncology, vol. 29, p. viii460, Oct. 2018.
• J. Hou, J. Dong, H. Zhu, X. Teng, S. Ai, and M. Mang, A Simple and Sensitive Fluorescent Sensor for Methyl Parathion based on l-tyrosine Methyl Ester Functionalized Carbon Dots, Biosensors and Bioelectronics, vol. 68, pp. 20–26, Jun. 2015.
• W. Pei, B. Chen, L. Wang, J. Wu, X. Teng, R. Lau, L. Huang, W. Huang, “NaF-mediated Controlled-synthesis of Multicolor NaxScF3+x:Yb/Er Upconversion Nanocrystals,” Nanoscale, vol. 7, no. 9, pp. 4048–4054, 2015.
• Y. Ding, X. Teng, H. Zhu, L. Wang, W. Pei, J. Zhu, L. Huang, W. Huang, Orthorhombic KSc2F7:Yb/Er nanorods: controlled synthesis and strong red Upconversion emission, Nanoscale, vol. 5, no. 23, p. 11928, 2013.
• P. Kannan, F. Rahim, X. Teng, R. Chen, H. Sun, L. Huang, D. Kim, Enhanced Emission of NaYF4:Yb, Er/Tm Nanoparticles by Selective Growth of Au and Ag Nanoshells, RSC Advances, vol. 3, no. 21, p. 7718, 2013.
• X. Teng et al., Lanthanide-Doped NaxScF3+x Nanocrystals: Crystal Structure Evolution and Multicolor Tuning, J. Am. Chem. Soc., vol. 134, no. 20, pp. 8340-8343, May 2012.
• W. Wei, T. He, X. Teng, S. Wu, L. Ma, H. Zhang, J. Ma, Y. Yang, H. Chen, Y. Han, H. Sun, L. Huang, Nanocomposites of Graphene Oxide and Upconversion Rare-earth Nanocrystals with Superior Optical Limiting Performance, Small, vol. 8, no. 14, pp. 2271-2276, Apr. 2012.
• Y. Yang, Q. Shao, R. Deng, C. Wang, X. Teng, K. Cheng, Z. Cheng, L. Huang, Z. Liu, X. Liu, B. Xing, In Vitro and In Vivo Uncaging and Bioluminescence Imaging by Using Photocaged Upconversion Nanoparticles, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, vol. 51, no. 13, pp. 3125-3129, Jan. 2012.