About

HCI and XR Researcher

at Data Visualisation and Immersive Analytics Lab

  • Organisation: Monash University
  • Degree: PhD in Human-Computer Interaction
  • Email: vahid.pooryousef [at] monash.edu

I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with interests in extended reality technologies, computer graphics, and human-computer interaction.

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

Publication

Full list and statistics available on Google Scholar.

2026
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V. Pooryousef, L. Besançon, M. Cordeil, C. Flight, A. M. Ross, R. Bassed, T. Dwyer · Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
2025
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V. Pooryousef, T. Dwyer, R. Bassed, M. Cordeil, L. Besançon · 2025 IEEE Conference on Engaging Critical Workforce In co-Design aNd Future-Ready Training
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V. Pooryousef · Monash University
2024
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V. Pooryousef, M. Cordeil, L. Besançon, R. Bassed, T. Dwyer · IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 30(11), 7452-7462
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V. Pooryousef, M. Cordeil, L. Besançon, R. Bassed, T. Dwyer · 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Adjunct (ISMAR-Adjunct)
2023
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V. Pooryousef, M. Cordeil, L. Besançon, C. Hurter, T. Dwyer, R. Bassed · Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
2019
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V. Pooryousef, R. Brown, S. Turkay · Proceedings of the 31st Australian Conference on Human-Computer-Interaction (OzCHI)
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V. Pooryousef, M. Molaie, R. Aghaeizadeh Zoroofi · 26th National and 4th International Iranian Conference on Biomedical Engineering (ICBME)
Preprint
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V. Pooryousef, H. Peiris, H. Liang, A. Li, Z. Chen, T. Dwyer, J. Liu · IEEE VIS 2025 (Poster)
10
V. Pooryousef, L. Besançon, M. Cordeil, R. Bassed, T. Dwyer · IEEE VIS 2023 (Poster)