Xin Tong

Dr. Xin Tong, Assistant Professor in the Computational Media and Arts (CMA) Thrust, Information Hub at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Duke Kunshan University (DKU). She previously worked at DKU as an Assistant Professor in Computing and Design and served as a Senior Researcher at the Data Science Research Center and the Global Health Research Center of Duke Kunshan University. She was the founding director of the DKU HCI Lab. Before that, she was awarded a Postdoctoral Scholar Award by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Pervasive Wellbeing Technology Lab at School of Medicine, Stanford University. She obtained her Ph.D. and master's degrees from Simon Fraser University in Canada. Her doctoral dissertation won the Bill Buxton 2021 Best Doctoral Dissertation Award (top 1), awarded by the Canadian Human-Computer Interaction Association.

Her research focuses on the application of human-computer interaction (HCI) and human-AI collaboration in the fields of healthcare, wellbeing, accessibility, and digital cultural heritage, including technologies such as VR/AR, AI/ML, Generative AI and LLM. Dr. Xin Tong has received multiple awards and grants from the NSERC, the ACM CHI 2024 Best Paper Award (top 1%), MITACS in Canada, Microsoft, and government agencies in Suzhou and Kunshan. She was also awarded the 2023-2024 Outstanding Individual Award by the Kunshan Association for Science and Technology.

Research Areas:

Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Human-AI Collaboration, Generative AI and LLM, Healthcare and Wellbeing, Accessibility, Digital Culture Heritage

Email: xint@hkust-gz.edu.cn