About

Yumeng Hou currently serves as Research Assistant Professor at the School of Creative Media at City University of Hong Kong, through the Global Research Assistant Professors Scheme. Her work intersects computation, visualization, digital curation, and cultural archives, exploring how the amalgamation of curatorial thinking with data science methods can enhance the preservation, transformation, and transmission of traditional practices and performance arts - often regarded as the intangible cultural heritage of humanity. Her research has been published in leading journals and conferences across the fields of digital humanities, heritage studies, and computational sciences. These include the Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Journal of Documentation, Journal of Open Humanities Data, Digital Humanities Quarterly, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE VIS, and ADHO Digital Humanities Conference(s), as well as in scholarly books.

Yumeng obtained her B.Eng. degree in Digital Media Technology from Zhejiang University, China, an M.Sc. in Computer Science, and a Ph.D. from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, with a dissertation completed at the Laboratory for Experimental Museology. Beyond academia, she has worked as Product Manager at Alibaba Cloud, Digital Strategist for NewStyle Media Group, and Creative Tech Lead and Advisory Board Member for _box lab, an art-tech innovator dedicated to data-enhanced playful museums.