Assistant Professor, Computational Media and Arts Thrust, Information Hub, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)
Director, AI & Art for Knowledge & Creativity (ARK) Lab
Dr. Xin Tong is an Assistant Professor in the Computational Media and Arts Thrust at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou). She was a postdoctoral scholar supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) at Stanford University. She obtained both her Master’s and PhD degrees from Simon Fraser University in Canada, where her doctoral dissertation received the 2021 Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society (CHCCS) Best Dissertation Award.
Her research focuses on intelligent HCI and human-AI collaboration, human–robot collaborative co-creation processes and interaction mechanisms. She has published more than 60 papers in top-tier international HCI conferences and journals and won several Best Paper Awards at these conferences. She has received grants from NSFC, the National Foreign Talent Program, CCF–Lenovo Blue Ocean Research Grant, the Guangzhou City–University Joint Grant, etc. She was also awarded the 2025 CCF HCI Committee Young Scholar Award and the Outstanding Individual Award from the Kunshan Science and Technology Association.
She has also been one of the organizing committee members in CHI 2026, DIS 2026, IDC 2025, CHI Play 2025 and 2024, HHME 2026 and 2023, ChineseCHI 2022, etc., and reviewers for top-tier conferences.
佟馨博士,于2024年加入香港科技大学(广州)信息枢纽计算媒体与艺术学域,担任助理教授、博士生导师。曾任获得加拿大自然科学与工程基金会(NSERC)的博士后学者奖并在美国Stanford University任职博士后。她于加拿大Simon Fraser University获得博士和硕士学位,她的博士论文获得2021年加拿大人机交互协会颁发的Bill Buxton 2021最佳人机交互博士论文奖。她的研究方向是人-AI、人-机器人合作交互过程中的交互机制、过程和界面。
佟馨博士曾获得中国自然科学基金,国家外专局外专人才项目,CCF-联想蓝海研究基金,华为红鸟学者奖、广东省科技厅基金,广州市校联合课题,苏州和昆山政府、思念基金、后土基金等各项科研课题。此外,她获得2025年CCF人机交互专委会青年激励计划奖,昆山科学技术学会2023-2024年先进个人奖项等。她在国际知名人机交互领域的会议和期刊上以第一作者或通讯作者身份发表60余篇学术文章,多次获得ACM CHI、ChineseCHI、VINCI最佳论文奖和最佳论文提名奖,SIGGRAPH ASIA 和ChineseCHI 最佳海报奖和最佳技术展示奖,并担任这些会议期刊的委员会成员、组织成员和审稿人。
此外,她曾担任CHI 2026 出版主席、DIS2026工作坊主席、IDC2025可持续发展主席、CHI Play 2025出版主席和2024 ,HHME 2026 和2023技术展示主席等各个会议的组织委员会成员。她从2021年起担任中国计算机协会(CCF)人机交互专委会执行委员,2021年起组织国际人机交互线上暑研项目HCIX/HCI+,2024年起担任ACM SIGCHI GBA Local Chapter 委员。
A selection of recent conference and journal papers — the complete list is on Google Scholar. * corresponding author.
Song, J., Wan, H., Han, L., Gao, Y., Yip, D., & Tong, X.* (2026).
ACM DIS 2026, pp. 3780–3803 DOI
Zhang, J., Zeng, K., Xu, Y., Xie, L., Lin, J., Zhao, K., Ma, Y., Wang, X., & Tong, X.* (2026).
ACM DIS 2026, pp. 4728–4749 DOI
Wang, A., Li, Z., Tong, X., & Hui, P. (2026).
ACM DIS 2026, pp. 661–687 DOI
Tong, X., He, L., Deng, Z., … & Li, M. (2026).
International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, 2026, pp. 1–35 DOI Project page
Xu, Y., Xiang, S., Song, Y., Sun, R., & Tong, X.* (2026).
ACM CHI 2026, pp. 1–22 DOI Project page
Li, Y., Zeng, K., Zong, J., Zhang, Y., Deng, H., Wang, L., & Tong, X.* (2026).
ACM CHI 2026, pp. 1–19 DOI Project page
Zhang, J., Pan, D., Wang, L., Hui, P., & Tong, X.* (2026).
ACM CHI 2026, pp. 1–25 DOI Project page
Yu, J., Zhang, X., Luo, Y., LC, R., Wu, K., & Tong, X.* (2026).
ACM CHI 2026, pp. 1–22 DOI Project page
Wang, Y., Xu, Y., Nikolova, A., Wang, Y., Wang, J., Wang, C., & Tong, X.* (2026).
ACM CHI 2026, pp. 1–28 DOI Project page
He, L., Chen, P., Tang, Z., Liu, Y., Jeung, J., Han, T., & Tong, X.* (2026).
ACM CHI 2026, pp. 1–25 DOI Project page
Pan, D., Luo, L., Zhu, J., Gao, Z., Tong, X.*, & Hui, P.* (2026).
ACM CHI 2026, pp. 1–23 DOI Project page
Wan, Y., Tong, X., & Wu, K.* (2026).
ACM CHI 2026, pp. 1–22 ★ Best Paper Honorable Mention Award DOI Project page
Wang, Y., Bei, R., Cao, J., Tian, Y., Fan, M., Li, M., Yao, Y., & Tong, X.* (2025).
ICHEC 2025 (Chinese CHI), pp. 1–14 ★ Best Paper Honorable Mention Award DOI Project page
Fu, Y., Su, S., Li, J., Yang, S., Lu, Z., & Tong, X.* (2025).
ICHEC 2025 (Chinese CHI), pp. 1–16 DOI
Chen, R., He, Q., Bao, H., Choi, J., & Tong, X.* (2025).
VINCI 2025, pp. 1–9 ★ Best Paper Award DOI
Zhang, J., Yan, X., Zhao, Y., Jin, X., Tong, X., Fan, M., & LC, R. (2025).
VINCI 2025 DOI
Wang, H., & Tong, X.* (2025).
VINCI 2025, pp. 1–5 DOI
Zhou, Z., Yuan, X., Cao, J., Weissglass, D., Hoffer, Z., Sanfilippo, M., & Tong, X.* (2025).
Proceedings of ASIS&T 2025, 62(1), 835–847 DOI Project page
Zhu, H., Kumar, A., Zhao, S., Wang, R., Tong, X., & Zhao, Y. (2025).
ACM ASSETS 2025, pp. 1–15 DOI Project page
Wen, Y., Wang, J., Ye, H., He, L., Fan, M., & Tong, X.* (2025).
ACM IDC 2025, pp. 69–80 DOI Project page
Wu, Z., Kumyol, S., Wong, S. Y., Hu, X., Tong, X., & Braud, T. (2025).
ACM Creativity & Cognition 2025, pp. 774–791 DOI
Zhao, K., Chen, R., Zhang, X., Wang, C., Chen, S., Wang, X., Wang, Y., & Tong, X.* (2025).
ACM CHI 2025, pp. 1–17 DOI Project page
Zhao, S., Huang, Y., He, X., Tong, X.*, Li, X.*, & Wu, D.* (2025).
ACM CHI 2025, pp. 1–20 DOI Project page
Zhu, Z., Yu, A., Tong, X., & Hui, P. (2025).
ACM CHI 2025, pp. 1–19 DOI Project page
Wang, X., Zhao, S., Wang, Y., Han, Z., Liu, X., Yi, X., Tong, X., & Li, H. (2025).
ACM CHI 2025, pp. 1–22 DOI Project page
Fan, M., Cui, X., Ma, W., Li, H., Tong, X., Yang, L., & Wang, Y. (2025).
ACM CHI 2025, pp. 1–15 DOI Project page
Li, Y., Deng, H., Ma, N., Tong, X., Fan, M., Li, Y., & Wu, D. (2025).
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 9(2), 1–25 DOI
Yin, J., Zheng, W., Wang, Y., Tong, X., & Yan, Y. (2025).
IEEE VR 2025, pp. 580–590 DOI
Cao, Y., He, Y., Chen, Y., Chen, M., You, S., Qiu, Y., Liu, M., Luo, C., Zheng, C., Tong, X., Liang, J., & Gong, J. (2025).
ACM IUI 2025, pp. 519–537 DOI
Wei, L., Dai, C., Peng, X., Tong, X.*, & Liu, C.* (2025).
Chinese CHI 2025, pp. 486–498 DOI
He, L., Wu, Z., Li, Y., Zheng, W., Sun, Y., Fan, M., Zhao, Y., & Tong, X.* (2025).
Chinese CHI 2025, pp. 384–404 DOI Project page
Pan, J., Zhu, X., You, R., Wen, Y., Lu, Z., & Tong, X.* (2025).
Chinese CHI 2025, pp. 47–62 DOI
Lyu, Y., Liu, D., An, P., Tong, X., Zhang, H., Katsuragawa, K., & Zhao, J. (2024).
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), 8(4), 1–36 DOI
He, X., Wu, D., Li, X., & Tong, X. (2024).
Proceedings of ASIS&T 2024, 61(1), 148–160 DOI
Zhang, L., Quan, Y., Cao, J., Zhou, K. Z., & Tong, X.* (2024).
IEEE QRS-C 2024, pp. 206–215 DOI
Li, Y., Bai, L., Mao, Y., Peng, X., Zhang, Z., Chan, A. B., Tong, X., & LC, R. (2024).
HCI International 2024, pp. 224–243, Springer DOI
Bei, R., Liu, Y., Wang, Y., Huang, Y., Li, M., Zhao, Y., & Tong, X.* (2024).
ACM CHI 2024, pp. 1–19 DOI Project page
Sun, Y., Yi, Z., Ma, X., Mao, J., & Tong, X.* (2024).
ACM CHI 2024, pp. 1–19 ★ Best Paper Award DOI Project page
Cao, J., Peng, X., Liang, F., & Tong, X.* (2024).
ACM CHI 2024, pp. 1–18 DOI Project page
Ye, H., You, R., Lou, K., Wen, Y., Yi, X., & Tong, X.* (2023).
Chinese CHI 2023, pp. 210–224 ★ Best Paper Honorable Mention Award DOI Project page
He, Q., Zheng, W., Bao, H., Chen, R., Lu, Z., & Tong, X.* (2023).
Chinese CHI 2023, pp. 596–613 DOI Project page
Yuan, X., Ye, H., Tang, Z., Zhu, X., Yao, Y., & Tong, X.* (2023).
Chinese CHI 2023, pp. 110–126 DOI Project page
Xiao, Y., Deng, B., Chen, S., Zhou, Z., Zhang, L., LC, R., & Tong, X.* (2023).
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (CSCW 2024) DOI
You, R., Zhou, Y., Zheng, W., Zuo, Y., Machuca, M., & Tong, X.* (2023).
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 7 (CHI PLAY), 289–318 DOI Project page
Tong, X., Mauriello, M. L., Mora-Mendoza, M. A., Prabhu, N., Kim, J. P., & Paredes Castro, P. E. (2023).
ACM CHI 2023, pp. 1–20 DOI
Tang, X., Chang, X., Chen, N., Ni, Y., LC, R., & Tong, X.* (2023).
ACM CHI 2023, pp. 1–24 DOI Project page
Cao, J., He, Q., Wang, Z., LC, R., & Tong, X.* (2023).
ACM CHI 2023, pp. 1–18 DOI Project page
Fu, K., Chen, Y., Cao, J., Tong, X., & LC, R. (2023).
ACM CHI 2023, pp. 1–19 DOI Project page
Tang, X., Sun, Y., Zhang, B., Liu, Z., LC, R., Lu, Z., & Tong, X.* (2022).
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 6 (CSCW2), 1–29 DOI Project page
Ye, H., Zhang, C., Xu, H., LC, R., & Tong, X.* (2022).
IEEE International Conference on Cyberworlds (CW) 2022, pp. 142–146 DOI Project page
Tong, X., Li, Y., Li, J., Bei, R., & Zhang, L. (2022).
AAAI/ACM AIES 2022, pp. 723–738 DOI Project page
For papers published in 2022 and before, please check Google Scholar.
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Dr. Tong actively contributes to the HCI community through conference organization, peer review, university service, and public engagement.
Publication Chair for ACM CHI 2026; Tutorial Chair for CCF HHME 2025; Proceedings Chair for ACM CHI Play 2025; Sustainability Chair for ACM IDC 2025; Associate Chair (Papers) for ACM CHI, CHI Play, ChineseCHI, and CSCW.
Reviewer for ACM CHI, CHI Play, DIS, IDC, CSCW, and IEEE VR, and for journals including Human-Computer Interaction, IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, IMWUT/UbiComp, JMIR Serious Games, Scientific Reports, and several Frontiers journals. Received Best Reviewing Recognition as an ACM CHI Play Associate Chair in 2023.
Organizing committee of the HCIX Summer Research Program since 2021; several internal committees at HKUST(GZ); community outreach related to STEM education and autism support.
Dr. Tong teaches both undergraduate and postgraduate courses at HKUST(GZ), spanning creative prototyping and interactive experience design, social robots for HCI, art, and design, introductory computer science, career development, and the behavioral foundations of university education, alongside supervising independent study.