I am currently a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at Columbia University, working at the Computer Graphics and User Interfaces Lab. I am super fortunate to be working under Professor Steven Feiner. As an M.S. student, I also worked under Professor Junfeng Yang.
My primary research interests are in augmented reality, computer graphics, and human-computer interaction. Specific topics include multimodal perception, biometrics in VR/AR, pose estimation, human-data interaction / visualization, and how ML/AI supports these interactions.
Before Columbia, I received a B.S. in Computer Science, Mathematics, and Cognitive Science from Rutgers University.
I'm also interested in skiing, climbing, volleyball, and fantasy literature!
You can find my open-source work and personal projects on GitHub. My LinkedIn can be found here.
If you'd like to chat, I'm reachable via email at by2297@columbia.edu!
Publications
B. Yang, J. Liu, X. He, B. Tversky, and S. K. Feiner, ”Permanent Proxies for Bimanual Selection and
Manipulation in VR ,” 2025 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces, Saint-Malo,
France, 2025.
B. Yang, X. He, J. Li, C. Elvezio and S. K. Feiner, ”An XR GUI for Visualizing Messages in ECS Archi-
tectures,” 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Adjunct (ISMAR-
Adjunct), Bellevue, WA, USA, 2024, pp. 640-641, doi: 10.1109/ISMAR-Adjunct64951.2024.00189.
J. Salzman, J. Li, B. Yang and S. K. Feiner, ”VHard: An XR UI for Kinesthetic Rehearsal of Rock
Climbing Moves,” 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Adjunct
(ISMAR-Adjunct), Bellevue, WA, USA, 2024, pp. 638-639, doi: 10.1109/ISMAR-Adjunct64951.2024.00188.
A. Boghosian, Isabel Cordero, Carmine Elvezio, Ben Yang et al., ”Augmented Reality and Virtual
Reality for Ice-Sheet Data Analysis,” IGARSS 2023 - 2023 IEEE International Geoscience and Re-
mote Sensing Symposium, Pasadena, CA, USA, 2023, pp. 52-55, doi: 10.1109/IGARSS52108.2023.10283077.
