I am a third-year Ph.D. candidate at Microsystem Laboratory at the Swiss Federal Institute Lausanne EPFL, jointly enrolled in Swiss Federal Institute Zürich ETH Zürich. In my research I seek to connect Extended reality and microengineering techniques to students’ learning in higher education. Also, I am focusing on implementing deisgn-based research method into interdisciplinary Human-computer Interaction (HCI) design, grounded with embodied learnig theory. I am supervised by Prof. Dr. Jürgen Brugger and co-supervised by Prof. Dr. Manu Kapur.
I completed my Computer Science master at Tsinghua University. I explored how virtual reality can support amblyopia children with game-based rehabilitation to overcome the consistency problem. Besides, I investiagated the connection of neuroscience through electroencephalograph (EEG).
Outside of academia, I enjoy photography, snowbording, badminton, tennis and cooking.
Contact
- qinglan.shan@epfl.ch
- qinglan.shan@gess.ethz.ch
- Me @ LMIS1
Publication
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Qinglan Shan, Manu Kapur, and Juergen Brugger. 2026. From Apprenticeship to Autonomy: Mixed Reality-Assisted Training in a Cleanroom by a Hybrid Authoring Workflow. In Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’26), April 13–17, 2026, Barcelona, Spain. (Conditional Acceptance)
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Qinglan Shan, Fan Wang, Arnaud Bertsch, Manu Kapur, and Juergen Brugger. “Mixed-reality training in a cleanroom to bridge intentional learning and actual learning”. In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference of the Learning Sciences-ICLS 2025, pp. 3227-3229. International Society of the Learning Sciences, 2025.Link
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Qinglan Shan, Julia Chatain, Manu Kapur, Jürgen Brugger. “MixedLAB: Mixed Reality to Teach Students Experimental Knowledge in Microfabrication” In SEFI’52: The 52nd Annual Conference of the European Society for Engineering Education. (2024) PDF
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Qinglan Shan, Christopher Hierold, Manu Kapur, Jürgen Brugger. “Mixed reality learning for microfabrication” In 24th MicroNanoFabrication Annual Review Meeting. (2024) PDF
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Qinglan Shan, Kaiying Mao, Yu Cheng, et al., “Interactive Brain-Computer System for Assessing Binocular Rivalry and Amblyopia Based on VR,” In ICVR’8: 2022 8th International Conference on Virtual Reality (2022) Link
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Yui Lo, Qinglan Shan et al., In VRST ‘21: Proceedings of the 27th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology. “VRBT: A Non-pharmacological VR approach towards hypertension” (2021) PDF
Education
[2022 - 2026] PhD Learning Science
EPFL-ETHz, Switzerland
- Building Mixed reality and Human-computer Interaction with microfabrication teaching and creative applications.
- Additional responsibilities: lecturing, lab assistance, creating assignments,
- Toolkit: MRTK, Sketch, Unity 3D, Python, C#, Blender, Premiere, Photoshop.
[2019 - 2022] MSc Computer Science 
School Scholorship
Tsinghua University, China
- Focus on virtual reality design and development, and Brain computer interface development and assessment.
- Toolkit: Unity 3D, Python, PyTorch, C#, Matlab.
[2015 - 2019] BSc Industrial Design 
National Scholorship
Chengdu University of Technology, China
- Focus on industrial design and interaction design.
- Toolkit: Unity 3D, Rhinoceros, SPSS, Maya, Keyshot
Teaching
- Social Innovation Design, Tsinghua University [2021-2022]
- Microfabrication technologies, EPFL [2023-2024]
- MEMS Practicals, EPFL [2023-2024]