Computer Science PhD in human-computer interaction, creative technologies Master of Fine Arts.
Chasing mountain trails and vintage motherboards

Hi, I'm Tianyu.

I work at the seam between computer science and visual art — building systems that make images, and making images that explain systems.

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Wide-angle view of an experimental electronic music performance — figures at keyboards and laptops under red-draped fabric, with motion blur and coloured stage light.

Selected work

Project
The Beat Goes On

A heart-rate wearable for an intergenerational community choir, squeezed into 100KB of usable memory and built to survive a crash mid-session.
- Wearables
- Embedded Systems
- C++
Project
Celestial Garden

Sixteen touch-reactive, glowing pods hanging in a Smithsonian gallery, built to feel alive even when no one meant to touch them.
- Embedded Systems
- Arduino
- Interaction Design
Art
Encyclopædia Mundi

A fake 1990s encyclopedia program whose entries drift from real Wikipedia text into GPT-2 generated nonsense, and back.
- Installation
- Interaction Design
- Artificial Intelligence