I design and build what shapes how we feel, express, and imagine.

Zhuoyue is a PhD researcher in Human–Computer Interaction (HCI) in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge. Supported by full scholarships from Trinity-Henry Barlow and the Cambridge Trust, his research explores interaction design in mixed reality that deepens connections between humans, the physical world, and digital experiences.
Zhuoyue holds a Master's degree in Education from Harvard University and an Honours Bachelor's degree in Computer Science with a focus on Artificial Intelligence from the University of Toronto. He has previously worked at the MIT Media Lab, IBM, Stanford University, and the University of Pennsylvania. He brings a multidisciplinary approach to his work, balancing roles as a researcher, designer, engineer, educator, and artist.
Full Papers
CHI '26

Unbounded: Object-Boundary Interactions in Mixed Reality
Zhuoyue Lyu, Per Ola Kristensso
CHI '26

Objestures: Everyday Objects Meet Mid-Air Gestures for Expressive Interaction
Zhuoyue Lyu, Per Ola Kristensson
ISMAR '22

Touching The Droid: Understanding and Improving Touch Precision With Mobile Devices in Virtual Reality
Fengyuan Zhu, Zhuoyue Lyu, Mauricio Sousa, Tovi Grossman
[Paper]
AAAI '22
EAAI

Introducing Variational Autoencoders to High School Students
Zhuoyue Lyu, Safinah Ali, Cynthia Breazeal.
[Paper] [Website]
AAAI/ACM SIGAI New and Future AI Educator Award ★
Short Papers
CHI '25
Video
showcases

Clo(o)k: Human-Time Interactions Through a Clock That “Looks”
Zhuoyue Lyu
UIST '22
Posters

HomeView: Automatically Building Smart Home Digital Twins With Augmented Reality Headsets
Zhuoyue Lyu, Jackie Yang, Monica Lam, James Landay
[Paper]
AIVR ’21
Demos

AIive: Interactive Visualization and Sonification of Neural Networks in Virtual Reality
Zhuoyue Lyu, Jiannan Li, Bryan Wang
Work
2023
Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence
Student Researcher
University of Pennsylvania
Teaching Assistant
2021
Stanford University
Research Intern
MIT Media Lab
Research Intern
2020 - 21
Gap year
IBM
Software Engineer
2019
University of Toronto
Teaching Assistant
Research Assistant
Education
2023 - 27
University of Cambridge | PhD
2022 - 23
Harvard University | EdM
MIT (Cross-registration)
2017 - 22
University of Toronto | Honours BSc
University of Pennsylvania (Visiting student)