Ming C. Lin: Building and Interacting with Digital Twins in the Metaverse

The keynote of Ming C. Lin from University of Maryland at Visual Computing Trends 2023 symposium in Vienna on January 26th, 2023: “Building and Interacting with Digital Twins in the Metaverse”.

The Metaverse introduces a shared, immersive space that bridges the physical and digital worlds, allowing us to experience life in ways otherwise not possible. I will present an overview of research necessary to construct the Metaverse and interact with digital twins. This lecture will provide a survey on recent advances that integrate classical model-based methods and statistical learning techniques to tackle challenges in reconstructing physical reality from diverse forms of data and in interacting with the Metaverse. These approaches offer new insights for understanding complex collective behaviors, developing better models for complex dynamical systems from captured data, enabling more effective design and automation, healthcare, e-commerce, education, and more. I’ll conclude with possible future directions and open problems.