Yumeng Hou currently serves as a Research Assistant Professor at the School of Creative Media through the Global Research Assistant Professors Scheme. Her research intersects computation, visualization, digital curation, and cultural archives, exploring how the amalgamation of curatorial thinking with data science methods can enhance the conservation, transmission, and transformation of traditional practices and performance arts - often regarded as intangible cultural heritage. Her work has been published in leading journals and conferences across the fields of digital humanities, heritage studies, and computational sciences. These include the Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Journal of Documentation, Journal of Open Humanities Data, Digital Humanities Quarterly, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE VIS, and ADHO Digital Humanities Conference(s), as well as in scholarly books.

Yumeng earned her PhD from EPFL, Switzerland, where she completed her dissertation on embodied knowledge encoding and computational cultural archives at the Laboratory for Experimental Museology. She holds a BEng in Digital Media Technology from Zhejiang University, China, and an MSc in Computer Science. Beyond academia, she has worked in the cloud media industry, specializing in product management, digital strategy, and creative technologies for museums.