{"id":613,"date":"2011-12-15T21:52:11","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T21:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kriesi.at\/themes\/propulsion\/?page_id=28"},"modified":"2026-02-16T17:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T17:46:09","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.cs.ucl.ac.uk\/anthonysteed\/home\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Responsibilities<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">I am a Professor in the <a href=\"http:\/\/vecg.cs.ucl.ac.uk\/\">Virtual Environments and Computer Graphics<\/a> group in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.ucl.ac.uk\">Department of Computer Science<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucl.ac.uk\">University College London<\/a>. I am currently head of the group. My <a href=\"research\">research area<\/a>\u00a0is real-time interactive virtual environments, with particular interest in virtual reality, augmented reality, novel forms of interaction, large-scale graphical models, collaborative systems and networking for tightly synchronous telecollaboration. Details of my active projects can be found <a href=\"projects\">here<\/a>. The group runs a <a href=\"http:\/\/vr.cs.ucl.ac.uk\">CAVE-like facility<\/a>, a large tracking space\u00a0and several other high-end virtual reality systems.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">I am first supervisor\u00a0for several doctoral students: Zoey Zhu, Ruochen Sun, Phoenix Sun, Jingyi Zhang, Kalila Shapiro, Lisa Izzouzi and Nels Numan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">My teaching responsibilities can be found <a href=\"teaching\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">I am currently deputy head of department. I <a href=\"consult\">consult<\/a> to a small number of companies in areas related to graphics or new media. See <a href=\"personal\">personal pages<\/a>\u00a0about me.<\/p>\n<p>I was director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/engdveiv.cs.ucl.ac.uk\/\">Engineering Doctorate Centre in Virtual Environment, Imaging and Visualisation<\/a> from 2005- 2013 and 2014-2018.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For my <strong>Office Hours<\/strong>, please my<a href=\"http:\/\/wp.cs.ucl.ac.uk\/anthonysteed\/contact\/\"> contact page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"three_fourth first flex_column\"><p style=\"text-align: justify\">I have co-authored two books:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.networkedgraphics.org\">Networked Graphics<\/a> by myself and Manuel Oliveira published in 2010<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk\/staff\/a.steed\/book_tmp\/CGVE\/\">Computer Graphics and Virtual Environments: From Realism to Real-Time<\/a> by Mel Slater, Yiorgos Chrysanthou and I<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><div class=\"one_fourth  flex_column\"><div class=\"avia-big-box \">\n<div class=\"avia-innerbox\">2<\/div>\n<div class=\"avia-big-box-bellow\">books<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>News &amp; Announcements<\/h3>\n<div class=\"widget newsbox\"><ul class=\"news-wrap image_size_widget\"><li class=\"news-content post-format-quote\"><a class='news-link' title='Virtual Treadmill Revisited' href='https:\/\/wp.cs.ucl.ac.uk\/anthonysteed\/2026\/02\/virtual-treadmill-revisited\/'><span class='news-thumb no-news-thumb'><\/span><strong class='news-headline'>Virtual Treadmill Revisited<span class='news-time'>16th February 2026 - 6:18 pm<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/li><li class=\"news-content post-format-standard\"><a class='news-link' title='Discussions about Apple Vision Pro' href='https:\/\/wp.cs.ucl.ac.uk\/anthonysteed\/2023\/06\/discussions-about-apple-vision-pro\/'><span class='news-thumb no-news-thumb'><\/span><strong class='news-headline'>Discussions about Apple Vision Pro<span class='news-time'>14th June 2023 - 4:32 pm<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/li><li class=\"news-content post-format-standard\"><a class='news-link' title='Thoughts on Facebook\/Oculus Accounts' href='https:\/\/wp.cs.ucl.ac.uk\/anthonysteed\/2020\/09\/thoughts-on-facebook-oculus-accounts\/'><span class='news-thumb no-news-thumb'><\/span><strong class='news-headline'>Thoughts on Facebook\/Oculus Accounts<span class='news-time'>23rd September 2020 - 1:41 pm<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n<div class='hr '><div class='hr_content'><a href=\"#top\" class=\"scrollTop\">top<\/a><\/div> <span class='hr_inner'><\/span><\/div>\n<div class='content_slider autoslide_false'>\n\n<div class='single_slide'>\n<h3>Office<\/h3>\n<p>My office is in 169 Euston Road, room 4.10.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class='single_slide'>\n<h3>Jobs and Studentships<\/h3>\n<p> I am always interested in discussing potential PhD topics. I am not actively recruiting for open positions now, but I will interested in talking with students who want to start in late 2022 or 2023. I am happy to receive applications\u00a0\u00a0on topics related to 3D user interfaces, virtual reality, networked virtual reality, perceptual and cognitive issues in mixed reality, haptics and telepresence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=anthony_steed\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Responsibilities I am a Professor in the Virtual Environments and Computer Graphics group in the Department of Computer Science, University College London. I am currently head of the group. 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