If You Were There
A work in four acts
A three-year city trail, the days I can still place, and a place to help me complete them. Privacy-filtered: initials and city centers only.
Builder & Prototyper
I build working prototypes for collaboration beyond the mouse and keyboard. The current focus is continuous voice and agents that operate visible software with you.
Currently in the San Francisco Bay Area. From 16 September 2026 I will be in New York, then Boston, for a while. Open to joining early teams building agent-native interfaces.
ContactNow building
OS1 — recreating the collaborative computer from Her as real, working software.
You talk with it and a handwritten letter takes shape on screen; keep talking and it revises the letter with you. A working prototype inspired by Her.
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View all projectsThe Telephone
Working hardware
A rotary phone rewired to start an agent session. Pick up the handset, talk, and watch a letter form on screen.
Hao Lab
Living experiment
A studio near Hangzhou wired with sensors, cameras, and microphones to test living with machine perception. Now a portable hub that travels with me.
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.
- First-author ICIRA paper · Modular prosthetic rehabilitation platform
- Product manager · Tencent Cloud
- Independent prototyping practice