Presenter

Dr. Bektur Ryskeldiev is a Kyrgyzstani-born multidisciplinary researcher and creative technologist, focused on spatial and social computing, human-computer interaction, immersive media, computational creativity, and digital art. He is currently a senior research scientist at Mercari R4D and a long time educator, organizer, and content producer at SIGGRAPH. He was previously in the Digital Nature Group at the University of Tsukuba, investigating how advances in handheld and wearable technologies are changing the ways we interact and perceive each other online. His works have been showcased at such conferences as SIGGRAPH Asia, CHI, CSCW, IEEE VR, and Augmented Human. He is also a founder, facilitator, and contributor at different tech, art, and science communities around the world, such as one of the first AI+XR tech hackathons in Tokyo, and MUTEK JP AI Music Lab.