Zhiming Hu is a tenure-track Assistant Professor at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) leading the Human-centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) Lab starting from August 2025. He was a post-doctoral researcher in the Collaborative Artificial Intelligence Lab led by Prof. Andreas Bulling and the Computational Biophysics and Biorobotics Lab led by Prof. Syn Schmitt, in the University of Stuttgart, Germany from August 2022 to July 2025. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Computer Software and Theory from Peking University, China in 2022, supervised by Prof. Guoping Wang. He received his Bachelor's degree in Optical Engineering from Beijing Institute of Technology, China in 2017. His research interests include virtual reality, human-computer interaction, eye tracking, and human-centered artificial intelligence. He has published over 20 papers at top venues in VR/AR and HCI, including SIGGRAPH, TVCG, IEEE VR, ISMAR, CHI, and UIST. His work has won Best Journal Paper Award at ISMAR 2024 (the only one at the conference), Best Journal Paper Nominees at IEEE VR 2021 (first time for Chinese researchers), and Best Student Paper Nominees at INTERACT 2023. He serves as a reviewer for many top venues, including SIGGRAPH, TVCG, IEEE VR, ISMAR, CHI, UIST, IMWUT, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, AAAI, TMM, and IJHCI.
Research areas:
virtual reality, human-computer interaction, eye tracking, and human-centered artificial intelligence
Email: zhiminghu@hkust-gz.edu.cn