I am a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the Department of Interactive Media, School of Communication, Hong Kong Baptist University. Previously I worked as an RGC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Division of Arts and Machine Creativity, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) and School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK). I obtained my PhD degree from CityUHK, under the supervision of Prof. Hongbo Fu. I received a BA in communication and a minor in computer science and technology from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), with Guo Moruo Scholarship honored.
Research
My research interests lie at the intersection of technical and empirical Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Computer Graphics (CG), and Communication & Media Studies, with a focus on content creation and interaction design with emerging technologies such as Generative AI and AR/VR. My work spans various practical and creative applications including 3D sketching, animation creation, game design and development, cultural heritage preservation, creativity support, and artistic expression. My recent research explores:
- Novel interactive techniques, tools, and systems with GenAI and AR/VR
- How people utilize GenAI and LLMs in domain-specific creative applications
- Technology-assisted artistic practice and creative works
I am actively looking for self-motivated PhD/Mphil students, research assistants, student helpers, and visiting students to join my group. Please refer to Group page for more details.
News
- 2025-12: Our paper on GenAI-assisted creative drawing GenFoDrawing is accepted by IEEE TVCG.
- 2025-12: I organize an interactive showcase of course GAME4007 AI for Game Design.
- 2025-12: I attend SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 in Hong Kong.
- 2025-10: I am invited to give a guest lecture at HKUST(GZ) and HKUST.
- 2025-09: I am invited to give a talk on Art-Tech: Technology-assisted Artistic Creation at the Federation of Hong Kong Jiangsu Youth.
- 2025-09: I am invited to give a guest lecture at HKUST.
- 2025-08: I have joined the Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) as a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor. Start a new journey!
- 2025-05: I will serve as a Program Committee member for the SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 Emerging Technologies.
- 2025-04: I am invited to give a talk and share my experience about Interdisciplinary Research on HCI, CG, and Communication at Striving for Excellence PhD Workshop, Chinese Society of Graphic Science.
- 2025-03: We are organizing the First HKUST AI Film Festival with CVM 2025 on April 19. This event has garnered significant attention, receiving coverage from over 200 media outlets worldwide.
- 2025-03: I will serve as a member of the technical program committee (TPC) for ISWC Notes and Briefs of UbiComp/ISWC 2025.
- 2025-02: I will serve as a member of the International Program Committee (IPC) of the CAD/Graphics 2025.
- 2024-12: I serve as the Web Chair for the Computer Graphics International 2025 (CGI 2025).
- 2024-12: I will serve as an International Program Committee (IPC) member for the 9th ACM/EG Expressive Symposium (Expressive 2025).
- 2024-12: I attend SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 in Tokyo.
- 2024-11: I serve as the MC for the opening of the exhibition "Altering Nature: Exploring Life in Computational Art" at HKUST.
- 2024-10: I am invited to give a talk at the Technical Colloquium: Academic Rising Stars Forum at Chinagraph 2024.
- 2024-06: Our paper Sketch2Human is accepted by IEEE TVCG.
- 2024-05: I serve as the organization co-chair for the 13th international conference on Computational Visual Media (CVM 2025), held in Hong Kong.
- 2024-05: I attend CHI'24 in person at Honolulu, Hawaii. Our paper ProInterAR is presented and we show a hot-desk demo. I also chair the session "Immersive Experiences: Creating and Communicating".
- 2024-04: I will serve as a Program Committee member for the Pacific Graphics (PG) 2024.
- 2024-03: I will serve as a Technical Program Committee (TPC) member for the ISWC Notes and Briefs of UbiComp/ISWC 2024.
- 2024-03: I will serve as a Program Committee member for the SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 Emerging Technologies.
- 2024-01: Our paper ProInterAR has been accepted by CHI 2024.
- 2024-01: I will serve as an Associate Chair (AC) for the CHI 2024 Late-Breaking Work (LBW) Program Committee!
- 2023-10: I was awarded the Third Prize in the Science and Technology Progress Award of Anhui (安徽省科学技术进步三等奖).
- 2023-07: I will serve as an Associate Chair (AC) for the CSCW 2024 Program Committee.
- 2023-04: The interactive digital book "Press Time to Sit Flight: Exploring the Secrets of Nature Science Tour"（坐着时间去飞行）, which I participated in planning and producing, is included in the Key Publication Planning Project during the 13th Five-Year Plan and was selected as a 2022 National Outstanding Popular Science Works.
- 2023-01: I will serve as an Associate Chair (AC) for the CSCW 2023 Program Committee!
- 2023-01: Our paper ProObjAR has been accepted by CHI 2023.
- 2022-12: I will serve as an Associate Chair (AC) for the CHI 2023 Late-Breaking Work (LBW) Program Committee!
- 2022-11: I have attended the RGC Award Ceremony.
- 2022-09: Started my postdoc at CityUHK!
- 2022-08: I attended CAD&CG 2021+2022 in Dalian, China, and gave an invited talk.
- 2022-06: I successfully defended my Ph.D. thesis: 3D Content and Interaction Prototyping with Mobile Augmented Reality.
- 2022-05: Our paper DrawingInStyles was accepted by IEEE TVCG.
- 2022-05: Our paper Predict-and-Drive was accepted by ISMAR 2022 and will be published in a special issue of IEEE TVCG.
- 2022-05: I was awarded the RGC Postdoctoral Fellowship and will conduct postdoctoral research with Prof. Hongbo Fu. I am honored to be one of the 50 awardees globally!
- 2022-04: I was invited to give a talk on "Mobile AR Prototyping for Proxemic and Gestural Interactions" at TAFA EAA Youth Academic Forum in Tianjin Fine Arts Institute.
- 2022-02: Our paper ProGesAR was accepted by CHI 2022. I will present it on CHI 2022 online in May.
- 2022-01: My Ph.D. thesis was selected for the SIGGRAPH PhD Thesis Fast Forward 2021 program.
- 2021-09: I was invited to give a talk at Graphics and Mixed Environment Symposium (GAMES) about ARAnimator. The talk video can be found here.
- 2021-09: I was awarded "Shidi CAD & CG Excellent Student Award 2021" and "Outstanding Academic Performance Award" from CityU.
- 2021-09: I was featured in SCM Newsletters (Issue 8 (2021)).
- 2021-03: I was invited to give a talk on "In-situ 3D Content Creation in Mobile AR" at the Affiliated Forum on Human, Technology and Future of IWHEC 2021.
- 2020-12: Our paper "3D Curve Creation on and around Physical Objects with Mobile AR" was accepted by IEEE TVCG, and was invited to be presented in IEEE VR 2021.
- 2020-10: I was invited to give a talk on ARAnimator at SCM|ACIM Colloquium, CityU.
- 2020-09: I was awarded "Research Tuition Scholarship" of CityU.
- 2020-03: Our paper ARAnimator was accepted by SIGGRAPH 2020 and I will present it on SIGGRAPH 2020 online in August.
- 2019-12: I will visit the Institute of HCI and Media Integration, Tsinghua University as a visiting PhD student.
- 2018-12: The books "Press Time to Sit Flight: Exploring the Secrets of Nature Science Tour"（坐着时间去飞行）and "Introduction to New Media Science Popularization"（新媒体科普概论）that I participated in planning and produced were published. "Press Time to Sit Flight: Exploring the Secrets of Nature Science Tour"（坐着时间去飞行）is an interactive digital book, which was recommended as "National Excellent Publication Recommended to the Elderly" in 2019.
- 2018-10: I worked as a student helper in PG 2018.
- 2017-12: I attended SIGGRAPH Asia 2017 in Bangkok.
Selected Publications
All Publications
Book Sections
Teaching
Instructor
GAME4026 Creative Production in Extended Reality
Spring 2026, HKBU
GAME4006 3D Game World Programming
Spring 2026, HKBU
GAME4007 AI for Game Design
Fall 2025, HKBU
Teaching Assistant
SM1103A Introduction to Media Computing
Fall 2018, Fall 2019, CityUHK
SM2716 Physical Computing & Tangible Media
Spring 2018, CityUHK
Invited Instructor
Maya and 3D Animation Creation
Fall 2016, USTC
Science and Technology Week
2013-16, USTC
Talks
Selected Awards & Honors
2023 Science and Technology Progress Award in Anhui (Third Prize)
2022 RGC Postdoctoral Fellowship (HKD 1,219,650)
2022 Outstanding Academic Performance Award in CityUHK
2022 National Outstanding Popular Science Works
2022 SIGGRAPH PhD Thesis Fast Forward (7 Globally)
2021 Shidi CAD&CG Excellent Student Award (6 in China, RMB 30,000)
2020 Research Tuition Scholarship in CityUHK (HKD 42,000)
2018 Outstanding Publication Recommended to the Elderly in China
2016 Guo Moruo Scholarship (Top 1.7%, Highest Honor for USTC Undergraduates, RMB 10,000)
2016 Merit Graduate in Anhui Province & USTC (Top 3%)
2016 Honorary Rank of Academic Achievement in USTC (Top 5%)
2016 Outstanding Thesis in USTC
2014 Sun Bin Leadership Scholarship in USTC
2014 Aegon-Industrial Responsibility Scholarship of USTC
2013-15 Outstanding Instructor in "Science and Technology Week" in USTC
2013 Gold Award of Excellent Student Scholarship in USTC (Top 5%)
2013 Outstanding Young Volunteer in USTC
Services
2025-26 Research Ethics Review Panel Member, School of Communication, HKBU
2025 CVM 2025 Organization Co-Chair
2025 The 1st HKUST AI Film Festival Organizer
2025 Computer Graphics International 2025 (CGI 2025) Web Chair
2024 CHI 2024 Session on Immersive Experiences: Creating and Communicating
2023/24 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW)
2023/24 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Late-Breaking Work (CHI-LBW)
2024/25 SIGGRAPH Asia Emerging Technologies
2024/25 UbiComp/ISWC Notes and Briefs
2025 CCF CAD/Graphics
2025 The 9th ACM/EG Expressive Symposium
2024 Pacific Graphics (PG)
2020-26 ACM CHI (Special Recognitions for Outstanding Reviews)
2022/24/25 ACM UIST
2025 IEEE ISMAR
2025 IASDR
2025 SIGGRAPH 2025 Poster
2023/24 ACM CSCW (Special Recognitions for Outstanding Reviews)
2024 ACM SIGGRAPH
2022/23 SIGGRAPH Asia
2020/23 Pacific Graphics (PG)
2022 ACM MobileHCI (Special Recognitions for Outstanding Reviews)
2021 IEEE VR
2021 IEEE AIVR
2024 ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
2024/25 IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC)
2023 Computers & Graphics (C&G)
2023 IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (CG&A)
2023 The Visual Computer (TVC)
2022 IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG)
2018 Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (PG)
Join My Group
Thank you for your interest in joining my research group! Due to the high volume of inquiries I receive, I may not be able to respond to every email individually. I sincerely apologize in advance if I'm unable to get back to you promptly.
PhD/MPhil Students
The Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme (HKPFS) application deadline is December 1 annually, while the regular RPg program deadline is March 1. Prospective students are encouraged to reach out early to discuss potential research directions and application strategies.
Research Assistants and Student Helpers
Part-time Research Assistants (RA) and Student Helpers are available for current undergraduate or master's students enrolled at Hong Kong universities. Full-time RA positions are open to all qualified candidates, with preference given to those with research experience or publications in related areas. Applicants planning to apply for PhD/MPhil programs in the future are particularly encouraged to apply.
Skills and Research Directions
Technical HCI & Graphics
Applicants with solid programming skills in Unity (C#), JavaScript, Python, Apple ARKit (Swift/Objective-C), or Google ARCore (Java/C++) are welcome to apply.
Empirical HCI
Applicants with experience in user study design, qualitative and quantitative research methods, statistical analysis, or mixed-methods approaches are encouraged to apply. Familiarity with tools such as R, SPSS, or qualitative coding software is a plus.
How to Apply
Please send your inquiry via email with the subject line: [Position Type]+[University]+[Your Name]
(e.g., "PhD+HKBU+John Smith" or "Student Helper+HKU+Mary Chan")
Email content should include:
- A brief description of your research interests
- The research direction(s) you would like to pursue
- Your availability (start date and duration)
Attachments:
- CV
- Undergraduate (and master's, if applicable) transcripts