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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.

 

04/2025: Received the Best Video Showcase Award for Clo(o)k at CHI '25.
02/2025: I will be serving as Visa Co-Chair for the CHI '26 Organizing Committee.

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. [Paper]

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Zhuoyue Lyu, Per Ola Kristensson. Objestures: Everyday Objects Meet Mid-Air Gestures for Expressive Interaction. (Under Review). [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. [Paper] [Website]
AAAI/ACM SIGAI New and Future AI Educator Award 🏆

Short Papers

Clo(o)k

Zhuoyue LyuClo(o)k: Human-Time Interactions Through a Clock That “Looks”. Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '25 Video Showcase).  [Paper] [Video]

Best Video Showcase Award 🏆

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 🏆

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 '25 ★UIST '24 ★, CHI '24 ★†, EAAI '24EAAI '23, MobileHCI '22, IDC '22

"Highly useful" review       Special recognition

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