One-liner Bio
Botao Amber Hu is a social computing researcher and experiential futures designer. As a PhD candidate in Human Centred Computing at University of Oxford's Department of Computer Science, his research focuses on Decentralized AI and its implications and governance in More-than-human Society, involving Collective Intelligence, Trust Experience Design, Protocol Studies, and Artificial Life.
Bio:
Botao Amber Hu is a social computing researcher and experiential futures designer. He is a PhD candidate in Human Centred Computing group at University of Oxford's Department of Computer Science. As a researcher, his interest lies in Decentralized AI and its implications and governance in More-than-human Society, involving Trust Experience Design, Protocol Studies, and Artificial Life. As a designer, he creates experiential futures using social mixed reality as his primary medium. He also serves as a visiting lecturer for Mixed Reality Design at the China Academy of Art while directing Reality Design Lab, an independent interdisciplinary research and design lab that explores the intersection of soma design, speculative design, spatial computing, and social computing. His work has been featured at leading conferences including SIGGRAPH, CSCW, CHI, UbiComp, WWW, TEI, ISEA, IEEEVR, IEEEVIS, ISMAR, ALIFE, Ars Electronica, SXSW, and TEDx. He has received numerous accolades, including the SIGGRAPH Best in Show, CHI Best Interactivity, Webby, Red Dot, iF Design, Good Design, A' Design, Core77 Design Award, and grants from the Ethereum Foundation. He holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from Tsinghua University and a master's degree in computer science with AI concentration from Stanford University.
Education
- University of Oxford
DPhil Student in Computer Science for Human-Computer Interaction focused on Decentralized AI
- Stanford University
Master of Science in Computer Science concentrated in Artificial Intelligence
- Tsinghua University
Bachelor in Computer Science and Technology, Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences
