Erzhen Hu

I am a PhD candidate in Computer Science at the University of Virginia, advised by Prof. Seongkook Heo. As we approach the everyday use of virtual world, my research explores how to enable more flexible and frictionless way of connecting with people in virtual and hybrid spaces. More recently, my research focuses on exploring Human-AI communication paradigms that augment human-human conversations through multi-modal agents, leveraging LLMs, and applying advanced 2D and 3D computer vision methods for multi-user scenarios, video-mediated interactions and XR applications. Before that, I obtained M.S. in Statistics from University of Virginia, and B.A. in Sociology from Shanghai University. During summers, I have had the fortunate opportunity to intern with amazing researchers at Microsoft Research and Google.