Dr. Roel Vertegaal is a Dutch future interaction designer, scientist, entrepreneur and electronic musician who resides in Canada. He is Director of Human-Computer Interaction Research and Senior Principal Scientist at Huawei Consumer Business Group in Shenzhen, China, where he leads the development of new user interface technologies for a wide range of products, from smartphones to smart cars. Prior, Roel directed the Human Media Lab at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, where he pioneered many of today’s novel mobile interaction techniques, including Organic User Interfaces: Multi-display thin-film paper-like tablets, and flexible and foldable smartphones that led to the Huawei Mate X and P50 Pocket, Samsung Galaxy Fold and Z product lines as well as the Asus and Lenovo ThinkPad foldable laptops. His rollable tablet work for LG Display led to LG's rollable TV. Roel is also known for his work on Attentive User Interfaces, developing the original attention-aware interactions and eye sensors featured in Apple‘s iPhone and iPad and the smart pause features in Samsung’s Galaxy phones, along with calibration-free eye tracking technologies and attention-based advertising displays through his startup Xuuk. More recently, he developed the concept of Real Reality Interfaces: multi-shaped interactive holograms, including flexible light field phones, vision-correcting systems and live-size video conferencing pods that capture and convey humans in full 3D. Dr. Vertegaal is also known for his empirical work, conducting some of the first user studies on flexible display interactions, holographic display interactions and attentive interactions: He was the first to measure and demonstrate the effects of eye contact on turn taking in multiparty conversation, using an eye tracker. Dr. Vertegaal was elected to the ACM CHI Academy for his overall contributions to the field of Human-Computer Interaction. He co-founded the ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications (ETRA) and the ACM CHI Conference’s alt.chi track. He graduated over 40 PhDs/MScs, and (co)authored over 150 refereed scientific articles and books with 9000 citations. An innovator in science communication, his work is featured widely in the popular press, from Scientific American to CNN.