Yumeng Hou
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Biography
Yumeng Hou is a digital humanities researcher currently pursuing a PhD at the Laboratory for Experimental Museology (eM ), EPFL. Trained as a data scientist, Yumeng holds experience in data visualisation, machine learning, analytics, and cloud solutions. Her research examines the convergence of cultural heritage, computational archives, digital narratives, knowledge encoding, and cultural AI. Yumeng is passionate about leveraging computational strategies to augment cultural studies, especially in the fields of intangible cultural heritage and traditional folklore. She is preparing a thesis on the datafication and (re)presentation of embodied knowledge in Southern Chinese martial arts in (digital) museum settings.Before joining eM as a researcher, Yumeng's professional experience includes Product Manager at Alibaba, Digital Analyst at Procter & Gamble, Creative Tech Lead at _box Interaction Studio, and Digital Strategist at NewStyle Media Group.
Education
PhD Candidate
Digital Humanities (EDDH)
EPFL
Oct 2020 - now
Visiting Researcher
Academy of Visual Arts
Hong Kong Baptist University
July 2022 - Jan 2023
Master of Science
Computer Science
EPFL
2015 - 2017
Bachelor of Engineering
Digital Media Technology
Zhejiang University
2010 - 2014
Visiting Student
Computer and System Sciences
Stockholm University
2013 - 2014
Publications
Other publications
Publication in Scientific Journals
Hou, Y.*, Seydou F.M., Kenderdine S. (2023). Accessing a multimodal archive of Southern Chinese martial arts through embodied cues. Journal of Documentation. Just accepted. (DOI: 10.1108/JD-01-2022-0027).Hou, Y.*, Kenderdine S., et al. (2022). Digitizing Intangible Cultural Heritage Embodied: state of the art. Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage. https://doi.org/10.1145/3494837
Hou, Y.* (2021). Accessing, Representing, and Transmitting Cultural Heritage through Digital Archives: Challenges and Opportunities. Digital Humanities Research, 4(1), 77-91. http://dhr.ruc.edu.cn/CN/Y2021/V1/I4/77
Xia, J., Hou, Y., Chen, Y. V., Qian, Z. C., Ebert, D. S., & Chen, W.* (2017). Visualizing rank time series of Wikipedia top-viewed pages. IEEE computer graphics and applications, 37(2), 42-53. https://doi.org/10.1109/MCG.2017.21
Peer-reviewed Conference Proceedings
Hou, Y.*, Kenderdine S. (2022). Encoding the Whole-of-Environment Knowledge for Intangible Cultural Heritage: A Computational Experiment with the Hong Kong Martial Arts Living Archive. In (IN)TANGIBLE HERITAGE(S): Design, culture and technology – past, present, and future, June 15-17, Canterbury, UK. AMPS Proceedings Series 29.1, pp.121-132.Hou, Y.* (2022). Augmenting knowledge exploration using agent-based models: A computational experiment with the Hong Kong Martial Arts Living Archive. 7th International Martial Arts Studies Conference. June 29 - July 2 2022, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Adamou, A.* , Hou, Y.*, Picca, D.*, et al. (2021). Ontology-mediated cultural contact in Southern Chinese martial arts. In Proceedings of the International Joint Workshop on Semantic Web and Ontology Design for Cultural Heritage.
Picca, D.*, Adamou, A.*, Hou, Y. et al. (2022). Knowledge organization of the Hong Kong Martial Arts Living Archive to capture and preserve intangible cultural heritage. In DIGITAL HUMANITIES 2022, July 25-29, Tokyo. Book of Abstracts of DH2022, pp.329-331.
Xia, J., Chen, W.*, Hou, Y., et al. (2016). Dimscanner: A relation-based visual exploration approach towards data dimension inspection. In 2016 IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST) (pp. 81-90). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/VAST.2016.7883514