Yi ZOU

Joey 邹一

Hi there :)I am a second-year MPhil student in Computational Media and Art Thrust at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou). I am supervised by Prof. Pan HUI and Prof. Hai-Ning LIANG. I collaborate closely with Prof. Zhiming HU.My research interests involve building context-aware adaptive user interfaces in Mixed Reality, understanding human behavior and the interactions between physical and virtual entities.

Recent News

  • Mar. 25, 2026
    Our DodgeUI poster received the Best Poster Award at IEEE VR 2026! Sincere thanks to all my collaborators! Appreciated everyone who came by and chatted :)
    Sudal-E, the otter mascot of IEEE VR 2026, Daegu, Korea
  • Jan. 2026
    One NIDIT Workshop Paper and one Poster are accepted to IEEE VR 2026! See you at Daegu!
    IEEE VR 2026, Daegu, Korea

Research Projects

IEEE VR 2026|POSTER|BEST 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 2026|WORKSHOP-NIDIT

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

Yi ZOU, Ziming LI, Hai-Ning LIANG*, Zhiming HU*

Education

Present
Sep. 2024

Master of Philosophy, Computational Media and Arts

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)
Information Hub, Computational Media and Arts Trust
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Jul. 2024
Sep. 2020

Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical Engineering

South China University of Technology
School of Electric Power Engineering
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Services

Apr. 2026

Student Volunteer

MMSys 2026 - ACM Multimedia System Conference
Hong Kong SAR
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Teaching

Fall 2024

Teaching Assistant

CMAA 5018 — Metaverse Cross-Disciplinary Design Thinking
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)