Hi there! I am Yu Zhang (张宇). Currently I am a Postdoctoral Fellow at College of Computing, City University of Hong Kong under the supervision of Prof. Jianping WANG and Asst. Prof. Jiawei MA.

Beyond research topics including social virtual reality and science communication through a human-computer interaction (HCI) perspective during my Ph.D., I am now working on projects that aim for introducing agentic AI into real-world application scenarios across various domains. Particularly, I am interested in developing agentic AI systems that are reliable, transparent, aligned with human goals, and create true values.

Latest News

Feb. 2026
Co-organize a workshop in CVPR 2026: ActiVis.
Nov. 2025
Onboard as a post-doc at CityU HK.

Selected Publications

SpeechCap: Leveraging Playful Impact Captions to Facilitate Interpersonal Communication in Social Virtual Reality

Yu Zhang, Yi Wen, Siying Hu, Zhicong Lu

Proceedings of the ACM on human-computer interaction (CSCW '25), 2025

ACM DLArxiv

RevTogether: Supporting Science Story Revision with Multiple AI Agents

Yu Zhang, Kexue Fu, Zhicong Lu

Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '25), 2025

ACM DLArxiv

Understanding Communication Strategies and Viewer Engagement with Science Knowledge Videos on Bilibili

Yu Zhang, Changyang He, Huanchen Wang, Zhicong Lu

Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '23), 2023

ACM DL

Controlling a Car through OBD Injection

Yu Zhang, Binbin Ge, Xiang Li, Bin Shi, Bo Li

IEEE 3rd International Conference on Cyber Security and Cloud Computing (CSCloud '16), 2016

IEEE Xplore

Working Experiences

Education