Researcher & Builder

Exploring human–computer collaboration beyond the mouse and keyboard through working prototypes across voice, shared visual context, software action, embedded systems, and physical devices.

Currently in the San Francisco Bay Area. Open to research prototyping roles, early teams building agent-native interfaces, and focused collaborations.

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Current work

Summer 2026

Recreating the opening letter-writing collaboration from Her as a working prototype: continuous voice, shared visual context, and software operated directly by a thinking machine.

A cream rotary telephone beside a laptop showing The Letter Writer prototype in Hao Lab

The Telephone as an Agent Interface

Working prototype

A voice-first physical entry point that turns speech into an agent session and a visible letter.

Grove

Inquiry system experiment

A conversation-native system for carrying evidence, comparison, and revision across an ongoing inquiry.

Hao Lab

Cyborg living experiment

A living environment for testing how perception and action can move beyond a single screen.

Background

BEng and MEng in Mechanical Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Graduate research in the Institute of Robotics’ Biomechatronics Lab covered dual-arm collaborative robotics, wearable EMG systems, and XR interfaces for prosthetic rehabilitation.

2018 First-author ICIRA paper · Modular prosthetic rehabilitation platform
2019—2023 Product manager · Tencent Cloud
2023—Now Independent research & prototyping practice