Qiao (Georgie) Jin
Hi! I am a tenure-track assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at North Carolina State University (starting Fall 2025), where I lead the Extended Horizon Lab. Our group explores how Extended Reality (XR, including AR, VR and MR) and AI can be designed to support learning, collaboration, and social connection.
Previously, I was a postdoc at Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, working with Prof. Vincent Aleven. I received my PhD from Grouplens Research Center at the University of Minnesota, luckily advised by Prof. Lana Yarosh. Prior to that, I received my Master’s degree from the Institute of Automation at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Bachelor’s degree from Shandong University.
📢 Our group has several openings for PhD students, postdocs and RAs. If you’re interested in XR + AI within the fields of HCI/CSCW/EduTech, feel free to reach out!
Latest News
- Nov, 2025: Our group is featured on the NC State CS department [News]! 📸
- Nov, 2025: Grateful to receive funding from the NCSU Innovation Fellows Program to support our work “MuseXR: Designing Shared Learning Experiences through Extended Reality.”
- Nov, 2025: Grateful to receive ETF (Educational and Technology Fee) funding to support my ongoing XR education work.
- Oct, 2025: I’ll be at #MobiHoc 2025. See you in Houston!
- Oct, 2025: I’ll be at #CHI PLAY 2025. Excited to return to Pittsburgh and see old and new friends!
- Oct, 2025: Excited our paper “From Tool to Partner: Exploring the Roles of Embodiment on AI Agent in Pair Programming” won Best Short Paper Honorable Mention at #VL/HCC 2025! ! Check out the project news here.
- Sep, 2025: Grateful to receive the NSF RiTEL award: Supporting Students’ Modeling Practice Through a LLM-Powered Pedagogical Agent in an AR Learning Environment.
- Sep, 2025: Our work “They All Look Mad with Each Other!: Understanding the Needs and Preferences of Children and Parents in AI-Generated Images for Stories” has been accepted to #IJCCI.
- Aug, 2025: Our poster work “GENLARP: Enabling Immersive Live Action Role-Play through LLM-Generated Worlds and Characters” has been accepted to #ISMAR 2025. Very proud to see Andy Yu leading this work!
- Jul, 2025: Our work “From Tool to Partner: Exploring the Roles of Embodiment on AI Agent in Pair Programming” has been accepted to #VL/HCC 2025. Very proud to see Xiaoran Yang leading this work!
- Jul, 2025: Our work “Jump, Stop, Jump Again: Exploring AI-Supported Physical Activity Play at Home with Parents and Children” has been accepted to #CHI PLAY WIP 2025. Very proud to see Hongfei Ji leading this work!
- May, 2025: Our work “Lumilo 2: A Scalable Mixed Reality System for Real-Time Teacher Analytics and Intervention” has been accepted to #AIED 2025 Interactive Events Track. Come check out our demo!
- Apr, 2025: Our poster work “Predicting Teacher Interventions in K-12 Classrooms Using Disengagement, Struggle and Help-Seeking” has been accepted to #EDM 2025.
- Apr, 2025: Traveling to CHI ’25, excited to connect in Yokohama!
- Apr, 2025: Our work “Stakeholder-Informed Prioritization (SIP): A Technique for Quickly Gauging Research and Design Priorities” has been accepted to #IDC WIP 2025.
- Mar, 2025: Excited to receive travel support and attend the NSF Workshop on Networking and Systems Challenges in Immersive Computing in Arlington, VA!
- Mar, 2025: Educational XR talk at the CMU Learning Science and Engineering Seminar (Thanks to the host @Ashish Gurung).
- Mar, 2025: Our work “An Exploratory Study of Using Interactive Volumetric Video in VR for Embodied Learning” has been accepted to #ICLS 2025.
- Feb, 2025: Our work “Chameleon: Unobtrusive Substitution of Real-World Obstacles in VR with Risk-Level-Aware Adaptation” has been accepted to #CHI LBW 2025. Very proud to see Andy Yu leading this work!
- Feb, 2025: Our paper “Assessing Disparities in Hybrid and Online-Only Local Support Communities” has been accepted to #CSCW2025.
- Nov, 2024: Excited our paper, “Field Trial of a Tablet-based AR System for Intergenerational Connections through Remote Reading“, got DEI Recognition at #CSCW2024!
- Oct, 2024: Guest Lecture at Human Factors Course at CMU (Thanks to the host @Laura Dabbish).
- Oct, 2024: Present our poster work at #UIST2024. Check out our Holoclass project for future VR classrooms and Sensebot for remote embodied communication. See you in Pittsburgh!
- Sept, 2024: Serve as area chair at #CSCW2025 and #CHI2025.
- Aug, 2024: Passed my PhD defense! Grateful for my advisor, committee, collaborators, and all the amazing friends who supported me along the way!
- Jul, 2024: Talk at Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIA) (Thanks to the host @Danli Wang). See you in Beijing!
- Jun, 2024: Excited our paper, “Is Your Family Ready for VR? Ethical Concerns in Children’s VR Usage,” won Best Paper Honorable Mention at #IDC2024! See more work from our XR for Youth Ethics Consortium!