Aven Le ZHOU is an artist scholar who works with embodied interaction and generative agents, e.g., emergence systems, genetic algorithms, and Artificial Intelligence. Since 2018, he has focused on utilizing AI to effectuate human-AI collaborative creativity and created the first Artificial Intelligence Arts course at NYU Shanghai in 2019 as an instructor and resident research fellow (2014-2020) in the Interactive Media Art program. He is an Assistant Professor at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool Univerity, a PhD researcher in Computational Media and Arts at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), a Fellow at the Royal Society of Arts, and an Affiliated Fellow at the Chartered Society of Designers.