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Who I am
I’m Sheng Zhao (赵晟), an undergraduate student at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China 🏫.
I will join the Department of Computer Science at University of Rochester, NY, USA as a Ph.D. student, working with Prof. Yuhao Zhu, from 25 Fall.
My research focuses on AR/VR systems and visual computing, considering human perception modeling and neural rendering acceleration.
Education
2021.9 - Present (2025.7 Expected)
B.Eng. in Electrical Engineering
B.S. in Fundamental Sciences (Mathematics and Physics)
Experience
2024.6 - 2024.9
Advisors: Professor Michael Nebeling and Postdoc Janet Johnson.
2023.4 - 2024.6
Advisor: Professor Xin Yi.
C3I Lab, Tsinghua University
2023.11 - 2024.6
Advisor: Professor; Shanghai AI Lab Manager Bowen Zhou.
Peer-review Papers
[1]. Sheng Zhao*, Junrui Zhu*, Shuning Zhang, Xueyang Wang, Hongyi Li, Fang Yi, Xin Yi, and Hewu Li. CoordAuth: Hands-Free Two-Factor Authentication in Virtual Reality Leveraging Head-Eye Coordination.
Accepted as Conference Paper, The 32nd IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR’25). (* Equal Contribution)
[PDF][ieeevr.org][IEEE Xplore]
[2]. Xueyang Wang, Sheng Zhao, Yihe Wang, Ziyu Han, Xinge Liu, Xin Tong, and Xin Yi. Raise Your Eyebrows Higher: Facilitating Emotional Communication in Social Virtual Reality Through Region-specific Facial Expression Scaling.
Accepted, 2025 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’25).
[PDF][sigchi.org][ACM Library]
[3]. Janet Johnson, Macarena Peralta, Mansanjam Kaur, Sophia Huang, Sheng Zhao, Hannah Guan, Shwetha Rajaram, and Michael Nebeling. Exploring Collaborative GenAI Agents in Synchronous Group Settings: Eliciting Team Perceptions and Design Considerations for the Future of Work.
Accepted, The 28th ACM SIGCHI Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW’25).
[Arxiv]
[4]. Sheng Zhao, Janet Johnson, Xin Yi, and Yukang Yan. Open Your Heart: Investigating the Impact of Dynamic Conversational Strategies and the Multiple Virtual Agent Setting on Emotional Support.
In submission.
Service
Reviewer: IMWUT’24, OzCHI’25, VR’25, CHI’25, CHI LBW’25, ICWSM’25, DIS’25, ISMAR’25
Student Volunteer: CHI’25
Repository
Facilitating more controllable and flexible novel view generation from a single image through precise camera parameters and enhanced attention blocks.
[Github]
Hobbies
- 🎵 Favorite musicians: Stefanie Sun (孙燕姿) and Jay Chou (周杰伦).
- 📚 Favorite book: Dream of the Red Chamber (红楼梦).
- 🚴♂️ Passionate about outdoor activities and proud member of the Tsinghua Cycling Team. Strava account here.