Professor Shengdong Zhao has received the prestigious ICACHI Pioneer Award for his outstanding career and pioneering leadership in the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). This accolade celebrates his remarkable achievements and the lasting foundation he has established for the discipline’s advancement.
Additionally, his groundbreaking project, GestureGPT: Toward Zero-Shot Free-Form Hand Gesture Understanding with Large Language Model Agents, developed in collaboration with Zhang Tengxian’s team, has been featured in the SCM Research Stories section. This project addresses a fundamental challenge in gesture recognition and has earned the Best Paper Award at ACM ISS 2024. GestureGPT combines contextual inference with interaction data to infer user intent, making gesture-based interfaces seamless and adaptive.
Congratulations to Professor Zhao on these well-deserved honors!