about
ScienceVR is an indie VR studio in its early days. We are passionate about visualizing human knowledge and abstract ideas by turning them into immersive and delightful experiences. We are a team of XR prototypers, educators, and storytellers working on a metaverse build on top of distributing human knowledge.
Jackie Lee
Founder/CEO
Jackie Lee, Ph.D. is a cross-disciplinary inventor in VR/AR, learning, and Affective Computing. He worked on Intel's RealSense 3D cameras and Project Alloy (the first all-in-one VR headset). He did biosensing and behavioral research at the Affective Computing Group at MIT Media Lab. He did his master thesis focusing on Spatial User Interface and Augmented Reality.
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Jackie is the recipient of the Virtual World Society's Nextant Rising Star Prize at AWE 2020. He is part of the Oculus Launch Pad 2020 program and a two-time recipient of Epic Games' MegaGrants.
Yen-Ling Kuo
Co-Founder/CTO
Yen-Ling Kuo, Ph.D. is an expert in AI and intelligent systems. She is currently a machine cognition researcher at MIT CSAIL. Before that, she worked as a Software Engineer at Google, where she handled large scale datasets and created automated data processing pipelines.
Jackie and Yen-Ling have been working together at workshops and hackathons for more than 14 years.