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

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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.

News

  • 01/2026: Three full papers accepted at CHI '26 (two as first author, one as co-author).

Full Papers

CHI '26

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Unbounded: Object-Boundary Interactions in Mixed Reality

Zhuoyue Lyu, Per Ola Kristensso

[Paper] [Video]

CHI '26

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Objestures: Everyday Objects Meet Mid-Air Gestures for Expressive Interaction

Zhuoyue Lyu, Per Ola Kristensson

[Paper] [Video]

ISMAR '22

Touching The Droid: Understanding and Improving Touch Precision With Mobile Devices in Virtual Reality

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

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

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

[Paper] [Video]

Best Video Showcase Award ★

UIST '22
Posters

HomeView: Automatically Building Smart Home Digital Twins With Augmented Reality Headsets

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

AIive: Interactive Visualization and Sonification of Neural Networks in Virtual Reality

Zhuoyue Lyu, Jiannan Li, Bryan Wang

[Paper] [Talk]

Best Presentation Award 

Service

Organizing Committee

Program Committee

Reviewer

CHI '26 ✧

CHI '25 ★

UIST '24 ★

CHI '24 ★✧

EAAI '24

EAAI '23

MobileHCI '22

IDC '22

✧ Special recognition for outstanding review

★ Recognition for highly useful review  

Student Volunteer

UIST '22

CHI '22

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)

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