Yuran is a first-year Computer Science PhD student in the University of Maryland and Max-Planck Institute (joint program), advised by Dr. Jun Nishida and Dr. Paul Strohmeier

She holds a Bachelor of Science with honors in from Carnegie Mellon University, with a focus on perception and interaction design. She is honored to have been advised by Dr. Roberta Klatzky, Dr. Chris Harrison and Dr. Lining Yao during her time at Carnegie Mellon University.

Her research interests include haptics, wearables, and human augmentation. Her high-level research goal is to understand opportunities in human perceptions and leverage that knowledge to design and create expressive interactive physical interfaces that facilitate meaningful interaction and integration with humans.

When she is free, she does art, expands her collection of weird (and cool) projects, and plays with lego.

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Sustainflatable: Harvesting, Storing and Utilizing Ambient Energy for Pneumatic Morphing Interfaces

Qiuyu Lu, Tianyu Yu, Semina Yi, Yuran Ding, Haipeng Mi, Lining Yao
UIST 2023
🏅 Best Paper Honorable Mention Award
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Surface I/O: Creating Devices with Functional Surface Geometry for Haptics and User Input

Yuran Ding, Craig Shultz, Chris Harrison
CHI 2023
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design and media arts

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