Georgia Institute of Technology
Dr. Mengtao (Tomy) Lyu is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Hybrid Intelligence (HI) Lab , Georgia Institute of Technology . He received his PhD in Human Factors Engineering from the Department of Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering , The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) , MSc in Supply Chain & Lgistics from School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering , Nanyang Technological University (NTU) , and BEng in Software Engineering and BA in Japanese(Dual degree) from School of Software , Dalian University of Technology (DUT) . Before joining the HI Lab , he was a Research Fellow at Air Traffic Management Research Institute (ATMRI) in Singapore .
Tomy is a member of The Hong Kong Ergonomics Society , and a member of Chinese Ergonomics Society . He serves as a reviewer for many international journals and conferences, including: Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence , Advanced Engineering Informatics , Knowledge-Based Systems , Computers & Industrial Engineering , IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems , International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction , Ergonomics , Frontiers in Neuroscience .
In addition to the academic activities, Tomy used to work as an IT consultant at ABeam Consulting , and as an IT supervisor at Asics Corp .
Research Interest
- Human Factors
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Human-AI Teaming
- Transportation safety
- Bio-signal analysis
- Knowledge-based decision making
News
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I have received the 2025/26 Outstanding Student Project Award
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- I’m delighted to share that I received the Outstanding Student Project Award, The Hong Kong Ergonomics Society (HKES)
I woke up at 4:30 AM to attend the meeting online, while such milestones definately worth losing a little sleep 😄
(Also excited to share that I broke my benchpress PR that same morning, hitting 117.5kg in the gym, carrying that excitement😎)

Award Certificate
- I’m delighted to share that I received the Outstanding Student Project Award, The Hong Kong Ergonomics Society (HKES)
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Paper Published (CHI 2026)
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- Congrats to Yiteng!
Our paper “From Expectation to Evaluation: Expectation Cues Systematically Bias LLM and Human Judgment” was published at ACM CHI 2026 (ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Barcelona, Spain)
- Congrats to Yiteng!
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Paper Accepted (IJHCS)
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- Congrats to Yiteng!
Our paper “ARHUD design for dynamic spatial information presentation to improve driver situation awareness of blind spots” was accepted by International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
- Congrats to Yiteng!
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My publication has been featured in Tobii's 2025 Annual Research Report!
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- Inspiring, innovative and pioneering research in 2025 by Tobii
My previous work Do you need help? Identifying and responding to pilots’ troubleshooting through eye-tracking and Large Language Model has been featured in Tobii’s 2025 Annual Research Report. I’m glad to see my works getting recognized, such little surprises in life keep motivating me 😁😁😁

Inspiring, innovative, and pioneering research in 2025 by Tobii
- Inspiring, innovative and pioneering research in 2025 by Tobii