As a Social Computing researcher, my long-term interest is Cyborg Sociology: the study of how human-augmentation technologies such as XR, AI, and beyond transform, diversify, and reform societies. During my PhD, I focus on Protocoling Distributed Intelligence—specifically through Wild Agents, Artificial We, Machine Phenomenology, and Agent Institutions. My research applies Machine Behavior, Protocol Studies, Artificial Life, Collective Intelligence, Trust Systems, Evolutionary Ecology, and AI Mechanistic Interpretability. I've proposed a Trust Experience Design (TXD) manifesto for distributed autonomous futures.

I 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? Can the Bodhisattva philosophy guide 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.

• [Dec 2026] Two of my works were accepted to the NeurIPS 2026 Creative AI Track in Sydney, Australia (Dec 6–12, 2026)!
• AI Mom™. Project.
• Agent Inheritance Protocol: Speculating on Feralized Agents After Principals Die. Paper.
• [Nov 2026] I will participate in the 2026–27 PIBBSS Winter Fellowship in Cape Town, South Africa (residency: Nov 23, 2026–Feb 23, 2027).
• [Nov 2026] I will participate in the London AO Summit in London, UK (Nov 5–6, 2026).
• [Oct 2026] I will attend CSCW 2026 in Salt Lake City, Utah, US (Oct 10–14, 2026).
• [Oct 2026] I attended the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Annual Meeting in Toronto, Canada (Oct 7–10, 2026).
• Game Studies, Protocol Studies, Machine Phenomenology, AI Sovereignty, Artificial Immortality
• [Sep 2026] My work Afterlife Protocol, with Iris Long, was selected by the Long Now Foundation for inclusion in its forthcoming Book of Time print and digital anthology.
• [Sep 2026] I gave the talk “Protocoling as Design Theory” at the Protocol Symposium 2026 (online; Sep 24, 2026).
• [Sep 2026] I attended the launch of Serpentine Arts Technologies’ Future Art Ecosystems R&D Fellowship: Art x Convergence in London, UK, as a Fellow Advisor (Sep 15, 2026).
• [Aug 2026] I co-hosted the workshop “Artificial Life in the Wild” at ALIFE 2026 in Waterloo, Canada (Aug 20, 2026).
• [Aug 2026] I participated 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).
• [Aug 2026] I attended the Berkeley Agentic AI Summit 2026 in person at UC Berkeley, California, US (Aug 1–2, 2026).
• [Jul 2026] I participated in the Stanford AO Summit at Stanford University, California, US (Jul 30–31, 2026).
• [Jul 2026] I gave an invited guest talk, “Who Owns It? Futuring Self-Sovereign and Co-Ownership of Artificial Life in the Wild,” at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law (MPI-CSL) in Freiburg, Germany (Jul 28, 2026).
• [Jul 2026] I attended CogSci 2026 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Jul 22–25, 2026).
• [Jul 2026] I will host a workshop “AI for Commoning: Speculating on the Kami of the Commons” 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] One work was accepted to the SIGGRAPH 2026 Immersive Pavilion in Los Angeles, US (Jul 19–23, 2026)!
• Allow Me Into Your Dream: Sharing Mixed Realities Through Handshakes
• [Jul 2026] I visited Kai Lukoff’s Human-Computer Interaction Lab at Santa Clara University to share my work on Leaks from Otherworlds (Jul 2, 2026).
• [Jun 2026] My paper “Dissociative Identity: Language Model Agents Lack Grounding for Reputation Mechanisms” was presented by recorded video at FAccT 2026, held in Montréal, Canada (Jun 26, 2026).
• [Jun 2026] I presented “Inattentive Robot” at TimelyAI Workshop at CHIWORK 2026, Linz, Austria (Jun 22, 2026).
• [Jun 2026] I gave a tutorial, “Intro to Mechanistic Interpretability,” at Santa Fe Institute’s Complex Systems Summer School in Santa Fe, New Mexico, US (Jun 22, 2026).
• [Jun 2026] I participated in Santa Fe Institute’s Complex Systems Summer School in Santa Fe, New Mexico, US (Jun 9–Jul 1, 2026).
• [Jun 2026] I was invited to join Serpentine Arts Technologies’ Future Art Ecosystems R&D Fellowship: Art x Convergence as a Fellow Advisor.
• [Jun 2026] I was invited to join as a Fellow of Decentralization Research Center (DRC).
• [Jun 2026] One paper was accepted to DRS 2026 for the Design and More-than-Human session in Edinburgh, UK (Jun 8–12, 2026).
• Experiencing the More-than-Human through Human Augmentation
• [Jun 2026] I served as a Teaching Assistant and gave a talk, “Tasting Design Research,” for the Interaction Design (IDE) 2026 course at the University of Oxford (Jun 1–5, 2026).
• [May 2026] I participated in the Machine+Behavior Conference 2026 in Berlin, Germany (May 18–19, 2026), followed by the Behavioral Clones Workshop (May 20, 2026).
• [May 2026] I will give a guest lecture, “Inter-Being Protocols: Becoming-with Humans, Animals, Machines, and More-than-Human Others”, for RCA Communication MFA students in London (May 27, 2026).
• [May 2026] I gave the online keynote “Experiencing the More-Than-Human Through Human Augmentation” for the SSX & InterAccess Vector Festival AR residency (May 27, 2026).
• [May 2026] I attended the Technical AI Safety (TAIS) Conference 2026 at the Examination Schools, University of Oxford, UK (May 14, 2026).
• [Apr 2026] I presented my work at the MOCO’26 Doctoral Consortium in Montpellier, France (Apr 23, 2026).
• On Improvisation and Open-Endedness: Insights for Experiential AI
• [Apr 2026] I presented two papers at CHI 2026 in Barcelona, Spain (Apr 13–17, 2026)!
• 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]
• [Apr 2026] I visited TU Delft, Netherlands, for Hiroshi Ishii’s lecture and discussions on TeleAbsence (Apr 9, 2026).
• [Apr 2026] I co-led “AI for Commons” lectures and workshops with Yi-Wen Tseng for National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU), Taiwan (online; Apr 2 and 9, 2026).
• [Mar 2026] I presented “Should Terror Shape Machine Behavior?” at the Centre for the Governance of AI (GovAI) in London, UK (Mar 25, 2026).
• [Mar 2026] I attended the Civic AI conference at Rhodes House, Oxford (Mar 25, 2026).
• [Mar 2026] I presented “Experiencing More-than-Human Through Human Augmentation” at the Immersive Acts symposium, Royal College of Art, London, UK (Mar 12, 2026).
• [Feb 2026] I gave an online guest talk, “Afterlife Beliefs Shape Behaviors,” to Hiroshi Ishii’s TeleAbsence team at MIT Media Lab (Feb 16, 2026).
• [Feb 2026] I started my Existential Risk Alliance (ERA) Fellowship in Cambridge, UK (residency: Feb 1–Mar 31, 2026).
• Should Terror Shape Machine Behavior?
• [Jan 2026] I co-hosted a “Kami of the Commons” speculative design workshop as part of the Civilizational AI Camp in Chiang Mai, Thailand (Jan 31, 2026).
• [Jan 2026] Two workshop papers were presented at AAAI 2026 in Singapore (Jan 26–27, 2026)!
1. On Improvisation and Open-Endedness: Insights for Experiential AI — CLIP Workshop.
2. Some[Body] Must Receive That Pain for Agent Accountability — LaMAS Workshop.

• Conference Reviewer for AAMAS 2027, IASEAI 2027, CSCW 2027, CHI 2027, TEI 2027, 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 ACM AI Letters, Interacting with Computers, International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, Behaviour & Information Technology
• Jury for MIT Reality Hack 2025