Professor Yang Jiang

Professor Yang Jiang is a Professor of Immersive Design in the School of Arts and Humanities, Faculty of Arts, Social Science and Education at the University of Hull in the UK. She is a fellow of HEA, a member of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Peer Review College, AdvancedHE Aurora Women Leader, and she has gained a Level 3 Certificate in Leadership and Management from ILM (The Institute of Leadership & Management). Yang leads and co-leads multi-million pounds cross disciplinary research portfolio, collaborating with researchers, communities and sectors from completely different backgrounds. She is the principal investigator of Augmented Fashion: Immersive Interactions for Sustainable Heritage in Fashion and Textile (https://www.augmentedfashion.co.uk ), a value of £1.3 million Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), UKRI-funded project. Her research and teaching interests are mainly in 3D visualizations, Immersive Technologies, computer gaming and computer-generated 3D character animations, as well as real-time motion capture. She collaborates with artists and creative media industries on 3D visualizations to create interesting animation characters; reconstruct events from videos to enrich computer animations; 3D visualizations for GIS; new games and user-centered design in the Human-Computer Interaction area. She also provides consultancy and other forms of income generation in the Digital Media area.