Chau Vu. Châu Vũ.
Incoming CS PhD Student at Harvard University, advised by Dr. Elena Glassman.
Both an HCI researcher and a builder at heart, I design and evaluate systems grounded in human perception and cognition, leveraging advances in AI and ML to augment our capabilities. Bridging theory and empirical validation, I’ve applied this approach to solve critical problems across personal informatics, creativity support, and education. Currently working on visualization techniques to support scientific discovery through knowledge sensemaking across documents.
Honored to have authored and received Best Paper and Honorable Mention awards at premier HCI research venues including ACM UIST, CHI, and DIS. Before Harvard, I graduated as full international scholarship holder and John Stauffer scholar in Computer Science from Pomona College, advised by Dr. Jingyi Li, Dr. Alexandra Papoutsaki and Dr. Daniel Epstein. I also built the first website for Vietnamese Sign language learning and ray-tracing software at Microsoft.
News
[03 - 2026] — "Artistic Practice Opportunities in CST Evaluations: A Longitudinal Group Deployment of ArtKrit" received Honorable Mention Award at DIS 2026 (Top 5%)! [link]
[01 - 2026] — Honored to receive the Computing Research Association Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award [link]
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[10 - 2025] — Presented "Computationally Scaffolding of Composition, Value, and Color" and received Best Paper Award at UIST 2025 (Top 1%).
Selected Publications
Artistic Practice Opportunities in CST Evaluations: A
Longitudinal Group Deployment of ArtKrit
— DIS 2026
Honorable Mention Best Paper Award
Understanding Adoption, Use, and Abandonment Practices in Baby
Tracking
— CHI 2026
Computational Scaffolding of Composition, Value, and Color for
Disciplined Drawing
— UIST 2025
Best Paper Award
Understanding Temporality of Reflection in Personal Informatics
through Baby Tracking
— CHI 2025
Honorable Mention Best Paper Award
Mind wandering somewhere in between Hanoi and Los Angeles.
I like building things—staying close to the code, whether for research or ideas that simply won't leave me alone. Visit GitHub for a full list of my projects.
Outside of work, you will find me at a movie theatre (my updating Letterboxd), gym, with a piano, or in the wild catching moments on a digicam when I travel:
