Dr. Yue Li (李月) is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computing, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. She graduated from the University of Nottingham in 2020 with the Postgraduate Award. Dr Li’s research interest is in the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), with particular emphasis on Extended Reality (XR) technologies. She has been actively involved in research related to the design, evaluation, and application of Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) in cultural heritage and education. Dr. Li leads the Heritage, Edutainment, and Reality Laboratory (HER Lab). Her work is published in esteemed international journals and conferences, such as IEEE TVCG, ACM ToCHI, IJHCI, ACM JoCCH, IEEE VR, IEEE ISMAR, ACM CHI, and ACM CSCW.

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I am happy to supervise final year projects in SAT301, SAT405 and SAT406, as well as summer research for HCI/VR/AR related projects.

For students who are interested in doing projects with me, please feel free to send me an email: yue.li@xjtlu.edu.cn. Highly motivated students with skills or experience in VR development (Unity), 3D modeling, and AIGC are very welcomed.

For more information about me, please visit my personal webpage: https://imyueli.github.io/

Human-Computer Interaction

Extended Reality, Virtual, Mixed, and Augmented Reality (XR/VR/MR/AR)

Cultural Heritage, Digital Heritage, Virtual Heritage

Education and Learning

Associate Professor, Xian Jiaotong-Liverpool University, 2026-Present.

Assistant Professor, Xian Jiaotong-Liverpool University, 2021-2025.

Programme Director of MSc Social Computing, Xian Jiaotong-Liverpool University, 2021-Present.

Research Associate, Virtual Engineering Centre, Xian Jiaotong-Liverpool University, 2019-2020.

Research Intern, NVIDIA, 2017-2018.

Research Assistant, Mixed Reality Lab, University of Nottingham, 2016-2017.

CPT208 Human-Centric Computing (AY2021/22 S2, AY2022/23 S2, AY2023/24 S2, AY2024/25 S2, AY2025/26 S2)

CPT411 Evaluation Methods and Statistics (AY2021/22 S1, AY2022/23 S1, AY2023/24 S1, AY2024/25 S1, AY2025/26 S1)

CPT202 Software Engineering Group Project (AY2020/21 S2)

Academic Excellence Award - Teaching Innovation, XJTLU, 2025

Excellent Mentor for Talent Cultivation (人才培养卓越导师), JITRI Academy of Industrial Technology, XJTLU, 2025

Rising Star in Research and Innovation, University of Nottingham, 2025

Suzhou Science and Education Backbone Talents (科教骨干人才), 2022

Jiangsu Shuangchuang PhD (双创博士), 2022

Tri-Campus Postgraduate Award, University of Nottingham, 2020

Postgraduate Teaching Award Highly Commended, University of Nottingham, 2018 and 2019

Vice-Chancellor’s Medal, University of Nottingham, 2016

National Scholarship Award, Chinese Ministry of Education, 2015

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Best Paper Award, UbiComp UbiSense, 2025

Best Paper Award, CHCI (第二十一届全国人机交互学术会议), 2025

Best Poster Award, ChinaVR (第二十四届中国虚拟现实大会), 2024

Best Paper Award & Best Presentation Award, International Conference on Educational Technology, 2022

Nominee of IEEE VGTC Virtual Reality Outstanding Dissertation, 2022

First Prize, International Contest on Blended Teaching Learning, 2021

Outstanding Supervisor, China Competition on Virtual Reality, 2021