Kyrie Zhixuan Zhou

My research interests are broadly in human-computer interaction, computer accessibility, AI ethics, and computing education. I aspire to design, govern, and teach about ICT/AI experience for vulnerable populations.

• Honorable Mention Best Long Paper Award (2nd of all 46 papers, 4.3%), ASIS&T, 2024
• Recognition for Contribution to Diversity and Inclusion (15/263, 5.7%), CSCW, 2023
• SOUPS Student Grant, USENIX, 2023
• Best Paper Award (11/678, 1.6%), HICSS, 2023
• Irwin Fellowship, UIUC, 2020
• Sharp Katharine Fellowship, UIUC, 2020

For a complete list of publications, visit Kyrie Zhou's publications page or Google Scholar Profile

Zhou, K. Z., Peng, W., Liu, Y., & Adler, R. F. (2025). Exploring the Diversity of Music Experiences for Deaf and Hard of Hearing People. To appear in Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 9 (CSCW).

Zhou, K. Z., Liu, C., Shan, J., Kletenik, D., & Adler, R. F. (2024). Accessible Adventures: Teaching Accessibility to High School Students Through Games. In 87th Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T).

Zhou, K. Z., & Sanfilippo, M. (2024). Understanding People’s Personalized and Contextual Choices of Differential Privacy: A Proof-of-Concept Survey. In 52nd Research Conference on Communications, Information, and Internet Policy (TPRC).

Liu, B., Zhou, K. Z., Zhu, D., & Park, J. (2023). Uncovering Gender Stereotypes in Video Game Character Designs: A Multi-Modal Analysis of Honor of Kings. In 3rd International Conference on Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities (NLP4DH).

Zhou, Z., Sharma, T., Emano, L., Das, S., & Wang, Y. (2023). Iterative design of an accessible crypto wallet for blind users. In Nineteenth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS).

Chen, X., Xie, J., Wang, Z., Shen, B., & Zhou, Z. (2023). How we express ourselves freely: censorship, self-censorship, and anti-censorship on a Chinese social media. In International Conference on Information (iConference).

Zhou, Z., Wang, Z., & Zimmer, F. (2022). Anonymous expression in an online community for women in china. In 56th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS).

Zhou, Z., & Shen, B. (2022). Toward understanding the use of centralized exchanges for decentralized cryptocurrency. In 13th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE).

Zhou, Z., Ding, X., Tang, X., & Chen, Y. (2022). "I Prefer an Everyday Style and Dislike Big Food Fighters": Integrating Foodshow into Everyday Life. In 55th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS).

Zhou, Z., Guan, H., Bhat, M. M., & Hsu, J. (2019). Fake news detection via NLP is vulnerable to adversarial attacks. In 11th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART).

* indicates equal contribution.