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I'm Zhuoyue (pronounced "Jwo-yweh"), a Ph.D. student in Engineering (Human-Computer Interaction) at Cambridge with full scholarships (Trinity-Henry Barlow & Cambridge Trust). I’m interested in spatial interactions (AR/VR/MR) that deepen connections between humans, the physical world, and digital experiences. I hold a Master's in Education from Harvard and an Honors Bachelor's in Computer Science (AI focus) from UToronto. I wear multiple hats - researcher, designer, engineer, educator, podcaster, and singer.


02/2025: I will be serving as Visa Co-Chair for the CHI '26 Organizing Committee.

11/2024: I'm open to internship/visiting opportunities zl536@cam.ac.uk

Publications

Full Papers   

Touching The Droid: Understanding and Improving Touch Precision With Mobile Devices in Virtual Reality

Fengyuan Zhu, Zhuoyue Lyu, Mauricio Sousa, Tovi Grossman. Touching The Droid: Understanding and Improving Touch Precision With Mobile Devices in Virtual Reality. IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR ’22). [Paper]

Introducing Variational Autoencoders to High School Students

Zhuoyue Lyu, Safinah Ali, Cynthia Breazeal. Introducing Variational Autoencoders to High School Students. The 12th AAAI Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence (EAAI ’22). [Paper] [Website]
AAAI/ACM SIGAI New and Future AI Educator Award 🏆

Short Papers

Clo(o)k

Zhuoyue LyuClo(o)k: A Clock That Looks. Human Computer Interaction Across Borders (HCIxB) Workshop. The 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '23 Workshop Papers). 

[Paper] [Video]

HomeView: Automatically Building Smart Home Digital Twins With Augmented Reality Headsets

Zhuoyue Lyu, Jackie Yang, Monica Lam, James Landay. HomeView: Automatically Building Smart Home Digital Twins With Augmented Reality Headsets. The 35th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '22 Posters). [Paper]

AIive: Interactive Visualization and Sonification of Neural Networks in Virtual Reality

Zhuoyue Lyu, Jiannan Li, Bryan Wang. AIive: Interactive Visualization and Sonification of Neural Networks in Virtual Reality. The 4th IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality (AIVR ’21 Demos). [Paper] [Talk]

Best Presentation Award (1st place) 🏆

Experiences

PhD Student

(full scholarships)

2023-2026

Stanford HAI

Visiting Student Researcher

Summer 2023

HGSE

​Ed.M.

2022-2023

MIT

Cross-registration

2022-2023

UPenn

Visiting Student

Summer 2022

Stanford

Research Intern

Fall 2021

MIT Media Lab

Research Intern

Summer 2021

Harvard

Summer School

Summer 2021

IBM

Software Engineer

2020-2021 (Gap Year)

DGP Lab

DGP

Research Intern

2019-2020

UofT

Honors BSc

2017-2022

Academic Service

Organizing Committee: CHI '26 (Visa Co-Chair)

Program Committee: EAAI '24EAAI '23

Student Volunteer: UIST '22, CHI '22

Reviewer:  CHI '25UIST '24, CHI '24, EAAI '24EAAI '23, MobileHCI '22, IDC '22

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