About

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Yumeng Hou currently serves as Research Assistant Professor at the School of Creative Media at City University of Hong Kong, and will join the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the National University of Singapore as an Assistant Professor in July 2025..

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 Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Journal of Documentation, Journal of Open Humanities Data, Digital Humanities Quarterly, IEEE VIS, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, and ADHO Digital Humanities Conference(s), as well as in 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.