Yuyang WANG
I am a Ph.D. in Computer and Signal Processing with diverse academic background accumulated from Bachelor to Ph.D. study, enabling me to perform interdisciplinary research. My research activities focus on customized interaction techniques in virtual reality by involving human factors (cybersickness, emotion, etc.).
Research interests
- Mitigation and prediction of motion sickness (or cybersickness) in virtual reality (P.S., with the help of A.I. methods)
- The neural mechanism behind user perception and sensory (P.S., Computational neuroscience, reinforcement learning)
- Multi-sensory VR interaction design and affective computing (P.S., Cognitive systems)
- Multiphysics modeling and simulation based on numerical methods (P.S., Mathematical and physical equations, physics-driven methods)
Research methodology relies on theoretical inference/simulation
and user study
supported by statistics, signal processing, machine/deep learning, control theory and numerical modeling, etc..
Working experience
March 2022 - now
- Postdoctoral researcher
- Computational Media and Arts, Information Hub, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), China
- Advisor: Prof. Pan Hui, IEEE Fellow, member of Academia Europaea
- Keywords: XR, computer-human interaction
Education
November 2017 - October 2021
- PhD
- Image institute , Arts et metiers institute of technology, France
- Keywords: virtual reality (VR), navigation/locomotion, interaction, cybersickness, cognitive workload, subjective evaluation, optimal control, data-driven modeling, deep learning
- Thesis: Intelligent navigation in virtual reality (defended: video)
October 2019 - September 2020
- Visiting PhD scholar
- Institute for Information Management in Engineering (IMI), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
- Keywords: VR, interaction, fuzzy logic, user modelling, human factors
September 2015 - July 2017
- Master on numerical methods in engineering
- International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE), Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain
- Numerical methods including finite element method, advanced discretization methods, numerical methods for PDEs, domain decomposition and large scale computing, etc.
- Applications focus on computational structural mechanics and dynamics, continuum mechanics, fluid mechanics and dynamics, forming processes and electromagnetism, etc.
- Thesis: Development of a numerical model for the transport of dust, file in PDF
September 2011 - July 2015
- Bachelor of non-woven materials in engineering, summa cum laude
- College of Textile and Clothing Engineering, Soochow University, China
- Keywords: engineering mechanics, polymeric chemistry & physics, textile materials, polymer structure & properties, technology of synthetic fibers
- Thesis: Intelligent wearable devices for textile sensory evaluation
Funding and awards
October 2019 - September 2020
- Scholarship from the French-German institute for the industry of future
January 2020 - June 2020
- Erasmus+ mobility grant from the HESAM Université
July 2015
- Excellent Graduates of Soochow University
November 2013
- National scholarship from the Ministry of Education of the PRC
Community service
Organizers or chairs
- Organizer of 2022 IEEE VR Workshop on Datasets for Developing Intelligent XR Applications (Data4XR), online
- Organizer of BoF session, "Towards real-time evaluation of cyber-sickness in VR", April 2021, IEEE VR, online
Reviewers
- Reviewer of international conferences: IEEE VR, IEEE ISMAR, ACM VRST
- Reviewer of international journals: IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Textile Research Journal, Industria Textila Journal
Invited talk
- Intelligent naivgation in virtual reality. November 2021, ParisTech Elite Institute of Technology at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
- Development of navigation techniques in virtual reality: towards customized interaction. December 2020, Hefei University of Technology, China, online
- Introduction to virtual reality. August 2018, the 2nd International Youth Innovation Conference, China
Computer skills
- Language: C# (Unity3D), Python, Matlab, C++, Latex
- Parallel/distributed computing framework using OpenMP, Open MPI, Ray
- AI programming relying mainly on Tensorflow and Keras
Hobbies
- Badminton and Chinese chess since childhood
- Piano during confinement of Covid-19