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Yiqin Zhao

Assistant Professor, Interactive Games and Media

School of Interactive Games and Media
Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences

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Tuesday: 9:30-11AM Thursday: 9:30-11AM

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Yiqin Zhao

Assistant Professor, Interactive Games and Media

School of Interactive Games and Media
Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences

Bio

I received my Ph.D. from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in August 2025. During my Ph.D. study, I have worked on AR environment sensing and perception systems, context-aware generative AI systems, privacy-preserving AI content generation, and infrastructure projects for AR experimentation. My current research focuses on building AI models and system support for real-world applications in dynamic contexts, with a special emphasis on enabling the seamless integration between virtual contents and the physical world. In the past, I also had the fortunate to work with many awesome industry researchers at Adobe Research, Google AR&VR, Kuaishou Y-tech Graphics AI team, and Baidu.

Currently Teaching

IGME-330
3 Credits
This course provides students the opportunity to explore the design and development of media-rich web applications that utilize both static and procedurally manipulated media such as text, images and audio. This course examines client and server-side web development and features common to such applications. Issues explored include framework characteristics, information management, presentation, interactivity, persistence, and data binding. Programming projects are required.
IGME-799
1-6 Credits
The student will work independently under the supervision of a faculty adviser on a topic not covered in other courses.

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