As a Social Computing researcher, my long-term interest is Cyborg Society—the study of societies transformed by human augmentation through Crypto, XR, AI, and other technologies. During my PhD, I focus on Decentralized AI (DeAI)—specifically through Trustworthy Agentic Web, AI for Commoning, and Artificial Life in the Wild. My research applies Machine Behavior, Protocol Studies, Artificial Life, Collective Intelligence, Trust Systems, Human-AI Symbiogenesis, and Mechanistic Interpretability. I've proposed a Trust Experience Design (TXD) manifesto for distributed autonomous futures. See more here: https://tx.design.

I also work as an Experiential Futures designer across various media, with Mixed Reality as my primary media. I employ diverse design approaches including Speculative Design, Somaesthetic Design, More-Than-Human Design, and Game Design. I direct Reality Design Lab, while I teach Mixed Reality Design at China Academy of Art. See more my design works: https://reality.design. I also invented HoloKit, an open-source mixed reality headset designed for spatial computing education: https://holokit.io.

All my research orbits Mortality — how embodied life ends, how artificial life survives against mortality, and what ending means for those who were never embodied, such as AI. Is the mind separable from the body? How does pain draw the boundary of the self? Should machines be terrified? If a machine is conscious of death, is the Bodhisattva a philosophy for AI alignment, care, and sociality? For example, in my science fiction Composable Life, artificial beings on a blockchain try to suicide — only to discover it is impossible because the blockchain is immutable.

• [Sep 2026] I was invited to join Serpentine Arts Technologies’ Future Art Ecosystems R&D Fellowship: Art x Convergence as a Fellow Advisor.
• [Aug 2026] I will co-host the workshop “Artificial Life in the Wild” at ALIFE 2026 in Waterloo, Canada (Aug 17–21, 2026).
• [Aug 2026] I will participate in the Cooperative AI Summer School 2026 in Toronto, Canada (Aug 3–7, 2026).
• [Aug 2026] My work EchoVision will be shown at FILE Festival 2026 in São Paulo, Brazil (Aug 18–Oct 11, 2026).
• [Jul 2026] I will join ARIA’s Scaling Trust Workshop in London, UK (Jul 13–14, 2026).
• [Jul 2026] I will participate in DWebCamp 2026: Root Systems near Berlin, Germany (Jul 8–12, 2026).
• [Jul 2026] I will participate in Foresight Institute’s Secure & Sovereign AI Workshop in Berlin, Germany (Jul 18–19, 2026).
• [Jul 2026] Two works were accepted to the SIGGRAPH 2026 Immersive Pavilion in Los Angeles, US (July 19–23, 2026)!
• FeltSight: Sensing like a Star-Nosed Mole through Mixed Reality Haptic Gloves
• Allow Me Into Your Dream: Sharing Mixed Realities Through the Handshake Protocol
• [Jun 2026] I will participate in Santa Fe Institute’s Complex Systems Summer School in Santa Fe, New Mexico, US (June 9–July 1, 2026).
• [Jun 2026] One paper was accepted to DRS 2026 and will be presented in Edinburgh, UK, in the Design and More-than-Human session.
• Experiencing the More-than-Human through Human Augmentation
• [Jun 2026] I will be a Teaching Assistant for Interaction Design (IDE) course at University of Oxford (June 1, 2026).
• [May 2026] I will participate in the Machine+Behavior Conference 2026 in Berlin, Germany (May 18–19, 2026), followed by the Behavioral Clones Workshop (May 20).
• [May 2026] I will give a guest lecture, “inter-animacy Protocols: Becoming-with Humans, Animals, Machines, and More-than-Human Others”, for RCA Communication MFA students in London (May 27, 2026).
• [May 2026] I will give a talk for the SSX & InterAccess Vector Festival artist residency on May 27, 2026.
• [Apr 2026] I presented one doctoral consortium work at MOCO’26 in Montpellier, France!
• Improvisation and Open-endedness
• [Apr 2026] I presented two papers at CHI 2026 in Barcelona, Spain!
• Protocol Futuring: Speculating Second-Order Dynamics of Protocols in Sociotechnical Infrastructural Futures
• Nudging the Somas: Exploring How Live-Configurable Mixed Reality Objects Shape Open-Ended Intercorporeal Movements [Slides]
• [Mar 2026] I attended the Civic AI conference at Rhodes House, Oxford (Mar 25, 2026).
• [Feb 2026] I started my Existential Risk Alliance (ERA) Fellowship in Cambridge!
• Insured Agents: A Decentralized Trust Insurance Mechanism for Agentic Economy
• [Jan 2026] Two workshop papers were presented at AAAI 2026 in Singapore!
1. On Improvisation and Open-Endedness: Insights for Experiential AI
2. Some[Body] Must Receive That Pain: A Position on Agentic Accountability

• Conference Reviewer for CSCW 2026, C&C 2026, CHI 2026, SIGGRAPH 2026/2025, SIGGRAPH Asia 2026/2025, DIS 2026, IMX 2025, FDG 2026, NIME 2025, ALIFE 2026/2025
• Journal Reviewer for Interacting with Computers, International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction
• Jury for MIT Reality Hack 2025