Dr Shaoyu Cai is a lecturer at the Engineering Design and Innovation Centre, College of Design and Engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He is also the co-director in NUS Immersive Reality Lab. Before joining NUS, he earned his PhD degree in Creative Media from the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. His research interest mainly focuses on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), particularly in the areas of multimodal and embodied interaction, extended reality (including virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality), wearables, and haptic interface. Dr Cai’s work mainly leverages haptic modeling and rendering techniques to simulate tactile material properties, such as roughness, friction, and temperature, to provide an immersive and realistic interactive experience in virtual and augmented reality.