Yumeng Hou
Computational Archives x Digital Embodiment
About
Yumeng Hou [yjuːˈmʊŋ] [hoʊ] is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore. She researches at the intersection of computation, visualisation, interaction, digital curation, and cultural archives, exploring how their integration can enhance the representation, transmission, and transformation of intangible cultural experiences. Her work has been published in leading journals and conference proceedings in digital humanities, heritage studies, and computational sciences, including ACM JOCCH, DSH, JDOC, JOHD, DHQ, IEEE VIS, CG&A, ADHO DH Conference(s), as well as in scholarly books.
Yumeng earned her PhD in Digital Humanities 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). Before joining NUS, she was a Research-track Assistant Professor at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. Beyond academia, she has worked as Cloud Product Manager, Digital Strategist, and Creative Technologist.
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?"