Yi Zou

Joey 邹一

Hi there :)I am a first-year PhD student in the Computational Media and Arts Thrust at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), supervised by Prof. Pan Hui and Prof. Zhiming Hu.I previously earned an MPhil in the same program, under the supervision of Prof. Pan Hui and Prof. Hai-Ning Liang. Before that, I received a BEng in Electrical Engineering from South China University of Technology.My research focuses on building context-aware adaptive user interfaces in Mixed Reality, understanding human behavior, and investigating interactions between physical and virtual entities.

Selected Projects

IEEE VR 2026POSTERBEST POSTER AWARD

DodgeUI: An Adaptive Interface for Mitigating Attentional Conflict via Implicit Motion Cues in Mobile AR

Yi Zou, Ao Yu, Ziming Li, Hai-Ning Liang*, Pan Hui*

IEEE VR 2026WORKSHOP—NIDIT

Contextual Recovery: Guiding Hand Tracking Failures Recovery in Mixed Reality via VLM Reasoning

Yi Zou, Ziming Li, Hai-Ning Liang*, Zhiming Hu*

Services

2026

Reviewer

ISMAR 202625th IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality
Bari, Italy
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Apr. 2026

Student Volunteer

MMSys 202617th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference
Hong Kong SAR
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Teaching

Fall 2026

Teaching Assistant

CMAA 5036E-Textile and Wearable Technology
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)
Fall 2024

Teaching Assistant

CMAA 5018Metaverse Cross-Disciplinary Design Thinking
InstructorProf. Pan Hui
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)