About
HCI and XR Researcher
at Data Visualisation and Immersive Analytics Lab
- Organisation: Monash University
- City: Melbourne, Australia
- Degree: PhD in Human-Computer Interaction
- Email: vahid.pooryousef [at] monash.edu
I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with interests in XR technologies, computer graphics, and user-centred design.
Resume 
Experience
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Nov 2025 - Present
Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
- Human-Computer Interaction, Extended Reality
Research Assistant
July 2024 - Oct 2025
Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
- Unity Developer, AI Integration for Medical Image Segementation in Virtual Reality Integrated with AI Vision Models
Assistant Lecturer/Teaching Associate
July 2022 - Feb 2025
Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
- Data Visualisation and Exploration (Master degree)
- Data Visualisation and Exploration (Undergraduate degree)
- Skilled learnt: Assignment design, Teaching, Visualisation with R, Tableau, Vega-lite
Freelance Web Developer
2015 - 2021
Remote
- Full-stack development of a ticket selling website
- Full-stack development of a donation website
- Customised wordpress templates and plugins
- An autofill browser extension
Education
PhD Candidate of Human-Computer Interaction
2021 - 2025
Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Working on using mixed reality and generative AI for analysing medical images and report generation for forensic investigation
Master of Software Engineering
2016 - 2019
University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
Thesis title: A Fast Method for Medical Multi-Volume Visualization
Bachelor of Software Engineering
2011 - 2016
Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran, Iran
Skills
Self evaluation of my skills in these areas
Research (SLR, Quant/Qualitative Evaluation) 90%
XR Technologies (Unity, C#, MRTK, VR, AR)90%
Web development (HTML, CSS, JS, PHP) 90%
Data Analytics (R, Tableau, Power BI, Python)70%
Software Engineering (Patterns, Algorithms, Database) 70%
Java Desktop and Enterprise (Hibernate, Tomcat, JavaFX) 60%
Other (Photoshop, 3D Max, etc.) 50%
Electronics and Robotics (Arduino, Proteus, AVR) 40%
