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

IEEE VR 2026WORKSHOP—NIDIT
Contextual Recovery: Guiding Hand Tracking Failures Recovery in Mixed Reality via VLM Reasoning

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Teaching
Fall 2026
Teaching Assistant
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)
Fall 2024
Teaching Assistant
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)

