Welcome
Hi 👋 , this is Yufeng, an experienced technology tinkerer standing at the intersection of humans and computers.
I am passionate about exploring the recently possible with expressive technologies and creating meaningful experiences with a human-centered approach.
I enjoy expressing myself and solving problems by turning technicality into experiences, designs... and sometimes arts!
Creative problems require creative solutions...
Creative solutions require creative approaches!
Most recently during my time studying HCI at CMU, I find myself building creative prototypes in the research phase more than end solutions. With my previous experience in multimedia production and programming, I can rapidly build experience-ready prototypes for users to react to, prior to further investment.
Experiences
2022-Present, UX Engineer, InterDigital (MHCI Capstone)
2022-Present, UX Researcher, Carnegie Mellon University, Morphing Matter Lab
2022, VR Researcher, Carnegie Mellon University, Augmented Perception Lab
2021-Present, Front-End Developer, NYU Shanghai, Humanities Research Lab
2020-2021, Associate Fellow, NYU Shanghai, Interactive Media Arts
2020, Adjunct Research Associate of Telepresence, NYU Shanghai, Interactive Media Arts
2019, Creative Technologist Intern, OUTPUT, Shanghai
Education
2022, Carnegie Mellon University, Master of HCI, School of Computer Science.
2020, New York University Shanghai, BSc, Interactive Media Arts & Computer Science.
Honors / Awards
2022, Student Design Competition Winner, ACM SIGCHI
2018, Dean’s Undergraduate Research Fund Scholarship, NYU Shanghai
Publications
Qiao Tang, Xinmu Hu, Ziwen Zeng, and Yufeng Zhao. 2022. Co-Orb: Fostering Remote Workplace Gratitude with IoT Technology. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (CHI EA '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 488, 1–6.
Residencies
2021, China Residencies, Film and VR Fellowship, online
2021, Freeport Institute, Signals & Storms Laboratory, online
Exhibitions
2021, Temporal Stack: The Deep Sensor, 上空间 Upper Gallery, Research Centre of Contemporary Visual Art, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang, China (made with art collective NDOI)
2021, Unlinked. NYU Shanghai, Shanghai
2020, Console.log, West Bund Art Center, Shanghai.
2020, ITP/IMA Spring Show, online
2019, Future Lab, West Bund Art Center, Shanghai