Born in Beijing.
Shaped by many worlds.

Anthropologist (i hope), musician (maybe), occasional overthinker (can confirm). Born in Beijing, trained in Rochester, currently figuring things out in Durham. I research AI and political identity by day, write songs by night, and have strong opinions about why math class is actually great for creativity.

At Rochester I graduated with honors and stayed an extra year as a Take Five Scholar — a program that lets you take classes completely outside your major, for free. Along the way I worked as a research assistant, taught discussion sections, gave campus tours, and somehow also became president of the undergraduate anthropology council. Before that, I interned at the China Children and Teenagers' Fund in Beijing, coordinating cultural programs with the National Museum of China and international student outreach. I'm currently working as a volunteer coordinator at Carolina Performing Arts, and this fall I'm heading to Pittsburgh for a PhD in Communication.

I have a three-year-old black Shiba Inu who is objectively very silly and one of the funniest creatures I've ever met. I used to have a dwarf rabbit named Grey (Yiguo) — he passed away in December 2025 from a heart condition — and a Syberian hamster named Panda who didn't make it past the summer of 2024.

My current life goals include a Dyson everything and a surf machine.