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Associate Professor Gun Lee is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Computer Science and Information Technology, College of Engineering and Information Technology at Adelaide University. He received his PhD and MSc degrees in Computer Science from Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea, in 2009 and 2002, respectively, and his BSc degree from Kyungpook National University, Korea, in 2000. As a member of the Australian Research Centre for Interactive and Virtual Environments (IVE) and the Empathic Computing Lab, his research investigates interaction and visualization methods for sharing virtual experiences in extended reality (xR), including VR, AR, and MR. His current focus is on developing AI-supported xR technology for remote collaboration and virtual training, with ongoing work on sharing richer communication cues and supporting large groups to collaborate across space and time.

Before joining IVE, Lee was a Research Scientist at the Human Interface Technology Laboratory New Zealand (HIT Lab NZ), University of Canterbury, leading mobile and wearable AR research projects from 2014 to 2016, following a Postdoctoral Fellowship there from 2011 to 2014. Previously, he worked at the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), Korea, as Senior Researcher (2009-2011) and Researcher (2005-2009), developing VR and AR technologies for industrial applications such as immersive 3D visualization and virtual training systems. At Adelaide University (formerly University of South Australia), he advanced from Senior Research Fellow (2016-2020) to Senior Lecturer (2020-present). Lee has earned major awards including Best Paper and Best Demo Awards at IEEE ISMAR 2023, Best Paper at ACM CHI 2018, Best Paper Runner-Up at ACM VRST 2019, Honourable Mention at ACM CHI 2019, Best Paper Runner-Up at SIGGRAPH Asia 2017, and Best of Show at ACM SIGGRAPH 2004. Key publications encompass 'Do you see what I see? The effect of gaze tracking on task space remote collaboration' (IEEE TVCG, 2016), 'Using Virtual Replicas to Improve Mixed Reality Remote Collaboration' (IEEE TVCG, 2023), 'The Impact of Sharing Gaze Behaviours in Collaborative Mixed Reality' (PACMHCI, 2022), 'The effect of facial cue placement in virtual collaboration' (Virtual Reality, 2026), and 'Immersive authoring of Tangible Augmented Reality content: A user study' (JVLC, 2009). With over 10,000 Google Scholar citations, his work profoundly influences human-computer interaction and xR. He serves on organizing committees for IEEE ISMAR 2023-2025 and ACM ISS 2024, and editorial boards for special issues in IEEE TVCG and PACMHCI.