Zhiming Hu

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

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Short Bio

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 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 20 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 the Editorial Board member 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, AAAI, TMM, IJHCI, and TCSVT.

Research Interests

His research interests include virtual and augmented reality, human-computer interaction, eye tracking, embodied AI, and human-centered AI. He mainly works on human behavior analysis and modeling for interactive systems with the purpose of understanding human behavior patterns and building human-centered intelligent interactive systems.

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Latest News

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Academic Positions

Affiliated Assistant Professor, 2025.10-now, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Assistant Professor, 2025.08-now, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)
Post-doctoral Researcher, 2022.08-2025.07, University of Stuttgart

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Software and Theory, 2017.09-2022.07, Peking University, supervised by Prof. Guoping Wang
B.Eng. in Optical Engineering, 2013.09-2017.07, Beijing Institute of Technology

Awards & Honors

Best Journal Paper Award at ISMAR 2024
Baden-Wurttemberg Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2024
Best Student Paper Nominees at INTERACT 2023
SimTech Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2022
National Scholarship (top 2%), 2021
Best Journal Paper Nominees at IEEE VR 2021
CSC (China Scholarship Council) Scholarship, 2020
Chancellor's Scholarship (top 2%), 2020
Leo KoGuan Scholarship (top 5%), 2019
Leader Scholarship (top 0.2%, 7 out of over 3800 students), 2017
National Scholarship (top 2%), 2016
National Scholarship (top 2%), 2014

Professional Activities & Talks

Reviewing

Journals: TVCG, IMWUT, TMM, IJHCI, TCSVT, TiiS, MTAP, VR, BRM
Conferences: SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH Asia, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, CHI, UIST, IEEE VR, ISMAR, AAAI, PG, ETRA

Organising Committee

ICXR 2026 Associate Program Co-Chair
TVCG Associate Editor
Executive Committee Member of CCF TCVRV
AAAI 2026 Program Committee
ETRA 2025 Presentation and Poster Chair
AAAI 2025 Program Committee
MuC 2024 Associate Chair
PETMEI 2024 International Program Committee
ETRA 2024 Virtualization Chair
MuC 2023 Associate Chair
iWOAR 2023 Technical Program Committee

Invited Talks

Investigating the Coordination of Human Eye Gaze and Body Movements in Extended Reality. GAMES Webinar 2025, Hosted by Dr. Xinda Liu, July, 2025.
Eye-body Coordination during Daily Activities for Gaze Prediction from Full-body Poses. ISMAR 2024, October, 2024.
Gaze-guided Human Motion Forecasting. IROS 2024 workshop on Nonverbal Cues for Human-Robot Cooperative Intelligence, Hosted by Dr. Jouh Yeong Chew, October, 2024.
Towards Human-centered Artificial Intelligence. Nanjing University 11th Chengyao Youth Forum, China, December, 2023.
Towards Human-aware Intelligent User Interfaces. Peking University Fifth Youth Forum on the Next Generation Computer Sciences, China, December, 2023.
Towards the Coordination of Eye, Body and Context in Daily Activities. Beijing Institute of Technology 10th Teli Forum, China, Hosted by Prof. Guoren Wang, November, 2023.
The Coordination of Digital Humans. Peking University Career Talk on Computer Science, China, November, 2022.
Analysis and Prediction of Human Visual Attention in Virtual Reality. Southeast University, China, Hosted by Prof. Ding Ding, June, 2022.
Recognizing User Tasks from Eye and Head Movements in Immersive Virtual Reality. IEEE VR 2022, Hosted by Prof. Kiyoshi Kiyokawa, March, 2022.
Forecasting Eye Fixations in Task-Oriented Virtual Environments. GAMES Webinar 2021, Hosted by Prof. Xubo Yang, September, 2021.
Gaze Analysis and Prediction in Virtual Reality. ChinaVR 2020 - IEEE VR Night, Hosted by Prof. Lili Wang, September 2020.
Eye-Head Coordination Model for Real-time Gaze Prediction. 2019 International Conference on VR/AR and 3D Display, Hosted by Prof. Feng Xu, June 2019.

Teaching

Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), 2026 -
Machine Perception and Learning, University of Stuttgart, 2022 - 2025

Publications

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Personal Blogs

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