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 research focuses on Decentralized AI (DeAI), specifically through Trustworthy Agentic Web, Agent Ethology, and Agentive Commoning, involving Protocol Studies, Artificial Life, Collective Intelligence, Trust Systems, Human-AI Symbiosis thinking. 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 4S: 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.
