Yuheng Wu
吴宇恒

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PhD Candidate

Department of Computer Science

University of Wisconsin-Madison

[email protected]

I am a 4th year PhD candidate at the MadAbility Lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, supervised by Prof. Yuhang Zhao. My research interests include Human-Computer Interaction, AI-powered Interactive System, Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR), and Accessibility.

I’m interested in building intelligent interactive systems that empower people.

Before UW-Madison, I received my B.S. in Computer Science from Peking University in 2022.

Publications

2026

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    NaviNote: Enabling In-situ Spatial Annotation Authoring to Support Exploration and Navigation for Blind and Low Vision People
    🏆 Honourable Mention
    Ruijia Chen*, Yuheng Wu*, Charlie Houseago, Filipe Gaspar, Filippo Aleotti, Dorian Gálvez-López, and 6 more authors
    * Equal contribution
    To Appear in CHI, 2026
    PDF Video
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    AskNow: An LLM-powered Interactive System for Real-Time Question Answering in Large-Scale Classrooms
    Ziqi Liu, Yuankun Wang, Hui-Ru Ho, Yuheng Wu, Yuhang Zhao, and Bilge Mutlu
    To Appear in CHI, 2026

2022

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    TreeVisual: Design and Evaluation of a Web-Based Visualization Tool for Teaching and Learning Tree Visualization
    Brendan J. O'Handley, Yuheng Wu, Haobin Duan, and Chaoli Wang
    ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, 2022
    PDF Demo Code

Education

UW-Madison University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ph.D. in Computer Science 		Sep. 2022 - Present
Peking University Peking University
B.S. in Computer Science 		Aug. 2018 - Jul. 2022

Work Experience

Niantic Spatial Niantic Spatial
Research and Development Intern
Mentor: Dr. Jessica Van Brummelen and Prof. Gabriel Brostow 		May. 2025 - Sep. 2025
London, United Kingdom
Microsoft Research Asia Microsoft Research Asia
Research Intern, Data and Knowledge Intelligence (DKI)
Mentor: Dr. Yun Wang 		Jan. 2022 - Jun. 2022
Beijing, China

Projects

VR Privacy Immersive Privacy Notification Framework in VR

We designed and implemented a VR privacy notification framework that is adaptable to different notification placements and message priorities. It supports privacy notifications attached to the user's head-mounted display (HMD), attached to the user's virtual body, and anchored in the VR world. It also supports privacy notifications with different priorities and renders them with different emphasis on being explicit and preserving user's immersive experience.

And more to come!

Services and Teaching

Reviewer

CHI'26, ICCV'25, CSCW'24, ISMAR'24

Workshops

Co-organizer, Workshop on Vision Foundation Models and Generative AI for Accessibility: Challenges and Opportunities, ICCV 2025

Teaching

  • CS320: Data Science Programming II
    Teaching Assistant, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Fall 2025
  • CS220: Data Science Programming I
    Head Teaching Assistant, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Summer 2024
  • CS577: Introduction to Algorithms
    Teaching Assistant, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Spring 2023
  • CS220: Data Science Programming I
    Teaching Assistant, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Fall 2022

Miscellaneous

  • Award & Honors: David G. Walsh Research Travel Awards, Fall 2025
  • Programming Languages: Python, JavaScript, C#, C++, Swift, HTML/CSS, SQL
  • Tools & Technologies: PyTorch, R, Unity, MATLAB, ReactJS, VueJS, Flask, Git, Linux
  • Languages: Chinese Mandarin, Chinese Cantonese, English
    • Slowly learning Spanish 🇪🇸