Headspace

• Interactive learning & user understanding at scale
• Empathy: A deliberate and thoughtful attempt at aligning with the other rather than full simulation of their experience
• Being vs product: Cognition, consciousness, wisdom, non-commercial weirdness & quirkiness
• Co-evolution: What we do changes systematically. How can that inform how we choose to live as individuals and societies?

Favorite books – Goodreads

• Foundation’s Edge
• Contact
• Hyperion Cantos
• 1984
• In Chinese: 文化苦旅 (A Bitter Journey through Culture). Not well-known in the West, but it was half of my teenage personality :p

Favorite musicals

• Elisabeth (In German. A lifelong romance with der Tod aka Death)
• Hadestown
• Frozen
• Moulin Rouge
• I’m also a Swiftie (Female Rage the Musical iykyk)

Note on imposter syndrome

I’m really grateful to work alongside people with track records of STEM research and international competitions. I’d wanted to be a sci-fi writer when I first got into AI. Having struggled through it, I’d love help folks feel like they belong. Please feel free to reach out on X if you want to chat.