Yumeng Hou
Computational Archives x Digital Embodiment
About
Yumeng Hou is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore (NUS).
Yumeng's research focuses on the intersection of computation, visualization, digital curation, and cultural archives, investigating how their amalgamation can enhance the representation, transmission, and transformation of traditional practices and performances, often regarded as intangible cultural heritage. Her research outcomes thus far have been published in leading journals and conference proceedings in the fields of digital humanities, heritage studies, and computational sciences, including ACM JOCCH, DSH, JDOC, JOHD, DHQ, IEEE VIS, CG&A, ADHO DH Conference(s),and scholarly books.
Yumeng obtained her PhD from EPFL's Laboratory for Experimental Museology (Switzerland). She holds an MSc in Computer Science from EPFL and a BEng in Digital Media Technology from Zhejiang University (China). Beyond academia, she has worked as Product Manager at Alibaba Cloud, Digital Strategist for NewStyle Media Group, and Creative Tech freelancer.
News & Press
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[08/05/2025] Co-curated exhibition opens! Central African Art - Invocation of an Unseen World. 9 May – 28 September 2025, Indra and Harry Banga Gallery, Hong Kong.
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[27/02/2025] Plenary Speaker at NIDH International Symposium Cultural Engagement Experience Redefined with Immersive Interactive Technologies, Tokyo, Japan.
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[01/12/2024] Plenary Speaker at DH Boundless Dialogue: Conversations on Intangible Cultural Heritage, Renmin University of China.
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[24/08/2024] Keynote speaker at the 5th International Martial Studies Conference.
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[26/07/2024] New paper "Augmenting access to embodied knowledge archives: a computational framework" published in Digital Humanities Quarterly.
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[08/02/2024] New paper "Ontology-based knowledge representation for traditional martial arts" published in Digital Scholarship in the Humanities.
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[24/11/2023] New paper "Building a Knowledge Graph of Chinese Kung Fu Masters From Heterogeneous Bilingual Data" published in Journal of Open Humanities Data.
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[09/08/2023] New paper "The Facets of Intangible Heritage in Southern Chinese Martial Arts: Applying a Knowledge-driven Cultural Contact Detection Approach" published in Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage.
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[13/07/2023] Finalist for Best Paper Award at Digital Humanities 2023, Graz, Austria
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[08/05/2023] New paper "Unlocking a multimodal archive of Southern Chinese martial arts through embodied cues" published in Journal of Documentation.
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[30/11/2022] Keynote speaker and panellists at 4th International Martial Studies Conference, Guangzhou CN
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[14/04/2022] Selected as EPFL Doc.Mobility grant recipient
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[08/04/2022] Guest Lecture for "Digital Art History: Current Trends and Experimental Applications", University of Basel.
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[18/02/2022] New paper "Digitizing Intangible Cultural Heritage Embodied: State of the Art" published in Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage.
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[16/09/2021] "What it really means to do interdisciplinary research?"