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Boston, Ma, Us

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

▶Desktop: The Non-Hierarchical Knowledge Platform• Studied similar websites and synthesized the pros and cons.• Wireframed and prototyped the non-hierarchical knowledge-sharing platform and tested through users’ views.▶Desktop: Transforming the Timeline• Led a team of five people at school to create a website for curating non-white-male architects.• Independently researched UX on the website, including interviews, personas, user journey, and wireframes.▶Project: The… Show more ▶Desktop: The Non-Hierarchical Knowledge Platform• Studied similar websites and synthesized the pros and cons.• Wireframed and prototyped the non-hierarchical knowledge-sharing platform and tested through users’ views.▶Desktop: Transforming the Timeline• Led a team of five people at school to create a website for curating non-white-male architects.• Independently researched UX on the website, including interviews, personas, user journey, and wireframes.▶Project: The Compton Trilogy Videos• Conducted in-depth interviews, including a local real estate developer, an activist, a scholar, and a local family. • Independently created and edited three video essays to show the uncovered optimistic side of Compton.▶Project: Visualizing anti-Asian Crimes in NYC • Visualized the hate crimes in NYC from 2019 to 2021 chronologically and geographically.• Displayed the spikes in anti-Asian crimes and made a comparison study with macro societal incidents.▶Project: AR Project: Shadow as new light• Learned using Unity in a week and employed Vuforia AR to prototype the game.• Used creative thinking to solve the programming problem and optimized the algorithm. Show less

Chaoyang Qu, Beijing, China

• Successfully completed design system for a design forum co-hosted with Urban Land Institute. • Designed the posters and the booklet for a bid-wining project.• 3D-modeled and rendered multiple pictures for several projects.• Provided robust construction feasibility support for the Chongqing project using the geographic information system.

Beijing, China

• Synthesized and reported the development conditions and potentiality for Yangquan through traffic capacity and industrial development level.• Independently led the research and finished a report on regional industries in Nangqian city with a concentration on cultural tourism.

Beijing, China

• In charge of the visual design of Cijian Magazine 4th anniversary issue and winter special issue.• Edited up to 50 submissions for Peking University Teaching Department social media.• Organized seasonal workshops for 20 first- and second-year students about essential designsoftware and principles so that they could start or improve designing for various purposes.

Beijing, China

Teaching Assistant in the Low Carbon Economics and Finance Course 2020 Spring for Prof. Tang Fangfang

Beijing, China

L&A is a famous global design group.• Analyzed the climatic conditions for the project in Daxing Industrial Park.• Developed and organized two workshops for climatic analyses.• Took several field trips to collect information for various projects.

Master In Design Studies

Activities and Societies: Fairbank Center and Harvard China Travel and Research Fund Winner | Sixth Annual MDes Research & Development.

Google Ux Design Certificate

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, City/Urban, Community And Regional Planning

Activities and Societies: Graduate with distinction | Merit Student 2016-2017 | Excellent Research Award 2017-2019 | Tiehan Scholarship.

Environmental Design

Full Scholarship from China Scholarship Council

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Economics