Dr. Bektur Ryskeldiev is a Kyrgyzstani-born multidisciplinary researcher and creative technologist, focused on accessibility, human-computer interaction, immersive media, computational creativity, spatial and social computing and digital art. He is currently a senior research scientist at Mercari R4D and a long time educator, organizer, and content producer at SIGGRAPH, as well as a committee member at ACM CHI. He is a visiting researcher at the University of Tsukuba Research Center for Digital Nature, where he investigates how advances in handheld and wearable technologies are changing the ways we interact and perceive each other online. His works have been showcased at such conferences as ACM SIGGRAPH Asia, CHI, CSCW, ASSETS, IEEE VR, and Augmented Human. He is also a founder, facilitator, and contributor at different tech, art, and science communities around the world, such as one of the first AI+XR tech hackathons in Tokyo, and MUTEK JP AI Music Lab.