I’m Yichen (逸宸), an interaction designer and HCI researcher with a PhD in Computer Science and industry R&D experience. I experiment with emerging technologies across mixed reality, audio, and AI, connecting ideas from design, sound, and computing. My work combines concept development, hands-on prototyping with Unity, JavaScript, and audio programming, and evaluation through user studies and musical performance.

[+] Selected projects

• Sù 溯 — A real-time generative AI musical interface with direct latent-domain controls for creative sound exploration.
• arMIDI — A collaborative augmented reality (AR) interface with shared visualisations of musicians’ gestures and instrument activity to support mutual awareness during electronic music performance.
• cube — An AR musical instrument with freehand gestural interaction and spatially arranged tonal cubes for expressive sound creation through movement.
• off-the-shelf — A human–AI musical collaboration system with AR visualisations of an AI agent’s musical activity to support awareness and engagement during shared performance.

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[<] Background

I’m currently a research fellow in the France 2030 PEPR eNSEMBLE program, hosted by the MINT team at the Université de Lille. I develop interaction concepts that make AI behaviour more understandable during creative collaboration, and investigate how AI tools influence creative agency and roles.

I completed my PhD in Computer Science at The Australian National University in 2025, researching spatial musical interface design with augmented reality.