Research Scientist
Fields of Interest
Biography
M.P.S., Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), New York University, 2023
B.E., Industrial Design, China Agricultural University, 2020
Zhuodi (Zoe) believes that human nature guides our future by determining how technology is imagined and exploited. She is particularly interested in the creative process that leads to innovation, particularly for social good, with a focus on using technology to serve people. With an academic and industrial background in both engineering and the arts, she helps turn ideas into practical solutions.
(Engineer, designer, content creator, and more. She simply enjoys climbing new mountains and seeing life from fresh perspectives. CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zoe-cai/)
Research
Selected Research
- Zhuodi Cai. 2025. How I Perceive It: Human Memory-Augmented Analogical Reasoning for Machine Visual Interpretation. In Proceedings of the SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 Art Papers (SA Art Papers ’25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 12, 8 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3757369.3767595
- Zhuodi (Zoe) Cai, Ziyu (Rose) Xu, Juan Pampin. Human-Machine Ritual: Synergic Performance through Real-Time Motion Recognition. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Ninth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2025).
- Zhuodi Cai. 2024. 3Description: An Intuitive Human-AI Collaborative 3D Modeling Approach. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Digital and Interactive Arts (ARTECH '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 32, 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1145/3632776.3632785
- Time and Time Again, an exhibition by Leo Nuñez & Juan Pampin
- IMU-based Human movement recognition using MINIROCKET and application in Dance performance Download PDF