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 an Honours Bachelor's degree in Computer Science with a focus on Artificial Intelligence from the University of Toronto and a Master's degree in Education from Harvard University. 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
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05/2026: Supervising five groups of undergrads (Trinity, Part IA) in Interaction Design.
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04/2026: Will continue serving on the organizing committee for CHI '27.
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03/2026: Doctoral Consortium (framing for my PhD dissertation) accepted at CHI '26.
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01/2026: Three full papers accepted at CHI '26 (two as first author, one as co-author).
Full Papers
CHI '26
Unbounded: Object–Boundary Interaction 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
CHI '26
SimStep: Human-in-the-Loop Authoring of Interactive Educational Simulations Through Task-Level Abstractions
Zoe Kaputa, Anika Rajaram, Vryan Feliciano,
Zhuoyue Lyu, Maneesh Agrawala, Hariharan Subramonyam
[Paper]
CHI '26
Doctoral
Consortium
Designing for Human, Digital, and Physical Interplay in Mixed Reality
Zhuoyue Lyu
[Paper]
Service
Organizing Committee
Program Committee
Reviewer
✧ Special recognition for outstanding review
★ Recognition for highly useful review
Student Volunteer
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 - 21
University of Toronto
Teaching Assistant
Research Assistant
Student Mentor
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)