Yuan Yang

Yuan Yang is a Senior Teaching Fellow at the School of Film, Media and Creative Technologies, Faculty of Creative & Cultural Industries, University of Portsmouth. She contributes to teaching and research with a focus on digital animation and immersive technologies.

Her research interests span animation, virtual reality, digital modeling, and creative technologies. She actively engages in interdisciplinary projects that bridge media, education, and technology, emphasizing experiential and immersive learning environments.

The available project descriptions indicate a strong trend toward applying virtual reality and digital reconstruction in educational and cultural contexts, particularly in museum and student support applications.

• Guest Professor (2021)

Yuan Yang has served as a Co-Investigator on significant research and innovation projects, including Reproduction the Original Appearance, focusing on anatomical and creature modeling, and the Immersive Student Support Project - Virtual Tutors, which explored VR-based student support systems in universities. These projects highlight her involvement in both technical and pedagogical innovation.

She is also an active academic participant, having delivered a keynote presentation at the Culture, Visual and Perceptions research seminar in March 2022, demonstrating her engagement with broader scholarly discourse in media and perception.