Work Experience
Senior Product Design Prototyper, Meta Reality Labs
I’m currently at Meta, working on the future of AR Glasses, Smart Glasses, and AI. The future is going to be amazing!
2021 – present, Seattle, WA & Los Angeles, CA
Creative Technologist, Google Creative Lab
As a technologist at the Google Creative Lab, I imagine, design, and develop experiences using the latest Google technology to explore the future of the arts, accessibility, and social justice. Via Adecco/Xpand.
2018 – 2020, Sydney, Australia & Los Angeles, USA
Research Lead, Teaching Assistant, NYU and Etihad Airways
Explored and developed high-tech solutions for Etihad Cargo and NYU. Solutions included mixed-reality for cargo packing, blockchain for shipping hazardous goods, and VR training simulation. Assisted NYU Abu Dhabi students as a teaching assistant.
2017, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Founder, Chief Technology Officer, Medivis, Inc.
I co-founded Medivis, which is dedicated to enabling surgeons and advancing surgical visualization using augmented reality and artificial intelligence. As CTO, I led technical hiring and built the core technologies of the Medivis SurgicalAR and AnatomyX products.
Sold and exited in 2017, though Medivis lives on as the industry-leading, FDA-approved, computer assisted surgical system, and is currently partnered with Verizon and Microsoft to improve patient outcomes across operating rooms in the US.
2015 – 2017, New York, USA
VR/AR Researcher, NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program
Researched, designed, and developed technologies for the latest XR, motion capture, and interaction hardware. Held development workshops and created learning materials for the ITP community for VR, AR, and MR development in addition to assisting with graduate course instruction.
2015 – 2016, New York, USA
Virtual Reality Creator in Residence, Unity Technologies China
Built early VR UX, interaction, and content prototypes for the HTC Vive.
Conducted user-testing on VR first-timers to gather qualitative data on local VR usage.
2015, Shanghai, China
Production Manager, DJ & Production Designer, SHFT Asia
Helped grow and build what is now one of China’s most innovative entertainment organizations. Executed grassroots marketing and event production. Supported international Grammy-award winning music acts as both a DJ and production designer.
2013 – 2015, Shanghai, China
Editorial Assistant, Intern, Outlook Newspapers
Wrote articles and edited guest columns to a local circulation of 30,000 households.
2012 – 2013, Pasadena, USA
Marketing Assistant, Intern, LA County Bicycle Coalition
Learned to work in a nonprofit environment and raise funds which support LA communities through bicycle and pedestrian friendly urban planning.
2011 – 2012, Los Angeles, USA
Publications & Presentations
AR-ia: Volumetric Opera for Mobile Augmented Reality
SIGGRAPH Asia 2019 XR (paper is linked here)
Motivated by recent availability of augmented and virtual reality platforms, we tackle the challenging problem of immersive storytelling experiences on mobile devices. In particular, we show an end-to-end system to generate 3D assets that enable real-time rendering of an opera on high end mobile phones.
AUTHORS: Sean Kelly, Samantha Cordingley, Patrick Nolan, Christoph Rhemann, Sean Fanello, Danhang Tang, Jude Osborn, Jay Busch, Philip Davidson, Paul Debevec, Peter Denny, Graham Fyffe, Kaiwen Guo, Geoff Harvey, Shahram Izadi, Peter Lincoln, Wan-Chun Alex Ma, Jonathan Taylor, Xueming Yu, Matt Whalen, Jason Dourgarian, Genevieve Blanche, Narelle French, Kirstin Sillitoe, Tea Uglow, Brenton Spiteri, Emma Pearson, Wade Kernot, and Jonathan Richards
Utilization of Mixed-Reality Visualization for Evaluation of Cerebrovascular Lesions
American Society of Neuroradiology, Presentation
The first of two studies, the first ever reported at a major medical meeting on the use of mixed reality visualization in neurosurgical planning.
AUTHORS: O Choudhry, MD; C Morley, MD; S Kelly, F Ahmed
Utilization of Mixed Reality Visualization for Intracranial Tumors
American Society of Neuroradiology, Presentation
The second of two studies, the first ever reported at a major medical meeting on the use of mixed reality visualization in neurosurgical planning.
AUTHORS: O Choudhry, MD; C Morley, MD; S Kelly, F Ahmed
Mixed Reality Visualization of Medical Imaging Data
Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine. Poster and demonstration
AUTHORS: Christopher Morley, MD; Osamah Choudhry, MD; Sean Kelly; Jarrod Phillips; Faraz Ahmed
Education
New York University
Bachelor of Science, Interactive Media (2017)
New York University Shanghai 上海纽约⼤ Dual Degree
Full Scholarship Award
Awards
TechCrunch Disrupt, HackNY: VR Development Award
Awarded first place for "Teach-U: VR," a VR app using PMD hand-tracking technology to enable users to teach or practice music.
2016, New York, USA
HackNYU: Accessibility & Assistive Tech Award
Awarded first place for prototype "Buddi" wearable device. Using GSM, GPS, and Arduino, Buddi empowers and protects people with dementia by allowing loved ones to respectfully keep track of their location and status.
2016, New York, USA
HackMIT: Oculus Prize for VR Development
Recognized for top VR development at HackMIT for "Jams!". "Jams!" allows users to play music with their friends in a social virtual reality environment.
2015, Cambridge, USA
NYU Shanghai “Event of the Year”
Awarded for organizing TEDx NYU Shanghai.
2015, Shanghai, China
Microsoft China-US Maker Awards: Multiple Categories
Built a telepresence air quality monitoring robot alongside a team of local Chinese graduate students, won the "Microsoft Popularity Award”, "DFRobot Award”, and "GEAK Award”.
2014, Shanghai, China
President's Volunteer Service Award: Gold
Civil award bestowed by United States President Barack Obama for community service contributions.
2012, Los Angeles, USA
Projects
(For more recent projects and documentation, go to my work page.)