Erzhen Hu

I am a final-year PhD candidate in Computer Science at the University of Virginia, advised by Prof. Seongkook Heo. Before that, I obtained M.S. in Statistics from University of Virginia, and B.A. in Sociology from Shanghai University.

I design and study interactive systems that engineer both the scale and nuance of communication, bridging behavioral theories of human interaction with AI-driven authoring and generative tools. These systems span conversational interfaces, avatar-based simulations, and multimodal media. My work has been recognized and supported by a Google PhD Fellowship and selection as an MIT EECS Rising Star. During the summers, I've interned at Microsoft Research, Google, and Autodesk Research.