Hometown: Hong Kong
Major: Performing and Media Arts
Minor: Information Science
I’m a Performing and Media Arts major and a storyteller at heart, with a deep curiosity about the relationship between technology and live performance: how the two have always pushed each other forward, and what that means for the artists and audiences of today.
I grew up training in musical theater, and I now spend much of my time on technical theater productions and film crews as a lighting designer and gaffer. That hands-on experience has shaped the way I think: I’m not just interested in what technology does in a performance space, but why it works the way it does, how it got there, and how it can serve a story.
Lately, my questions have centered on in-person human connection. So much of life can now happen online, and the pandemic showed us just how far that can go, yet people keep seeking out shared, physical experiences. I want to understand why, and what role storytelling plays in drawing people into the same room. Light is one of my favorite ways into that question: on a stage or in a film it carries the narrative, while in a museum, a building, or an interior it quietly shapes how we feel and move through a space.
Growing up a short ride from Hong Kong Disneyland, I learned early that a story doesn’t have to stay on a stage. It can live in a queue, a doorway, a shift in color as you turn a corner. Whether it’s an immersive production, a museum exhibition, a theme park land, or a large-scale live event, I’m drawn to the same challenge: designing a journey through a space so that every moment, from the first step inside to the last, tells part of the story and leaves people feeling they experienced something together.
I’m equally fascinated by how technology gets represented in the media. Long before most people use a new technology, they’ve already formed feelings about it through the films, shows, and stories they’ve grown up with. A single depiction can make a technology feel thrilling, trustworthy, or threatening, and those impressions ripple outward into public perception, policy, and even what gets built next. Tracing how science fiction has imagined technology over the decades has shown me how much stories shape not just what we expect from the future, but how willing we are to welcome it.
As AI reshapes the creative landscape, I’m less interested in debating whether to engage with it than in figuring out how to do so with intention: growing with the tools rather than being left behind by them.
Outside of academics, I love escape rooms, solving crosswords, and watching chocolate chip cookies bake through the oven door.
