Ahmed Elsharkawy
InnoCore Postdoctoral Fellow @ GIST (HCIS Lab) & DGIST
GIST, Dasan Building Room 201, 123 Cheomdangwagi-ro (Oryong-dong), Buk-gu, Gwangju, Republic of Korea, 61005
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I am currently an InnoCORE Postdoctoral Fellow in the InnoCORE Research Group for Bio-Embodied Physical AI, co-affiliated with Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) and Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST). Prior to my current position, I served as a Research Assistant Professor in the department of AI convergence at GIST for one year. I received my Ph.D. in Integrated Technology (specializing in Intelligent Robotics) from GIST. Before that, I earned my M.S. in Mechatronics Engineering from GIST. My research lies at the intersection of Human-Computer/Robot Interaction, Extended Reality, and Physical AI.
news
| Jul 05, 2026 | XRWay’26 workshop paper submission deadline extended |
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| Jun 19, 2026 | Our research paper SelfBlending was featured on YTN Science. |
| Jun 05, 2026 | XRWay’26 workshop proposal accepted at IEEE ISMAR 2026 |
| Jan 26, 2026 | Attennding HCI Korea conference at Sono Belle Vivaldi Park Convention Center (Hongcheon, Republic of Korea). |
| Nov 27, 2025 | Delivered a seminar titled “Physical AI in Action: Tackling HCI Challenges with XR-Enhanced Robotics” at GIST |
selected publications
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In IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2026IEEE TVCG-26 -
Virtual Reality, 2025VR Springer-25Aya Ataya and Ahmed Elsharkawy contributed equally (co-first authors). -
🏆 Best Paper Honorable Mention AwardIn Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2024CHI-24 -
IEEE Access, 2022IEEE Access-22 -
Sensors, 2022MDPI Sensors-22Khawar Naheem and Ahmed Elsharkawy contributed equally (co-first authors).