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, with a joint appointment at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is a National Young Talent. He was a post-doctoral researcher in the University of Stuttgart, Germany from August 2022 to July 2025, collaborating with Prof. Andreas Bulling and Prof. Syn Schmitt. 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 and augmented reality, human-computer interaction, eye tracking, embodied AI, and human-centered AI. He has published over 30 papers at top venues in VR/AR, HCI, and AI, including SIGGRAPH, TVCG, IEEE VR, ISMAR, CHI, UIST, and AAAI. His work has won Best Journal Paper Award at ISMAR 2024, Best Journal Paper Nominees at IEEE VR 2021, and Best Student Paper Nominees at INTERACT 2023. He is an Associate Editor of TVCG. He serves as a reviewer for many top venues, including SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH Asia, TVCG, IEEE VR, ISMAR, CHI, UIST, IMWUT, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICLR, AAAI, TMM, IJHCI, and TCSVT.
Research areas:
virtual reality, human-computer interaction, eye tracking, and human-centered artificial intelligence
Email: zhiminghu@hkust-gz.edu.cn