Yibo Fu
I’m a creative technologist, designer, fabricator & HCI researcher. I believe in a physical world of ‘ambient computing’. I love how design has the potential to make science & technology weird/fun/clever/uesful. I’m always inspired by how things function and how they're fabricated both by nature and by humans.
I write code in cpp, js & python, specializing in embedded system/physical computing and tangible human computer interaction. I love using Arduino or Raspberry Pi to play with electricity’s magic power of impacting almost anything and I made an Arduino from scratch. As an industrial designer, I do 3D modeling in Rhinoceros and Alias(learning Grasshopper). In my spare time, I mess around withC4D & Arnold/Octane renderer to create non-existing world.
I enjoy hands-on stuff. I have experience in many fabrication processes including 3D printing, CNC milling, vinyl cutting, laser cutting, lathe, machine sewing, soldering, casting, etc. And I’m extermely interested in fabrication-inspired/innovated ideas.
Education
09/2020-12/2022
MFA Design & Technology, Parsons School of Design
09/2020-07/2021
Exchange program, Tsinghua University
09/2016-07/2020
B.E. Industrial design, South China University of Technology
07/2018-08/2018
Exchange summer program, Industrial design, Georgia Tech Institute
Working experience
02/2023 - 09/2023 Research assistant, Morphing Matter Lab at HCII in Carnegie Mellon University
09/2022 - 12/2022 Visiting researcher, Morphing Matter Lab at HCII in Carnegie Mellon University
10/2022/ - 12/2022
Graduate teaching assistant, xFab, PGTE5270, Parsons School of Design
05/2022 - 08/2022
Design technologist intern, Smart Design
02/2022-now
Graduate research assistant of Prof. Harpreet Sareen at Parsons School of Design
06/2019-09/2019
Industrial design intern, Nreal.ltd
Awards & scholarships
2022 Core77 Design Award Notable
2019 Red Dot Design Award Best of the Best
2019 A’design Award Bronze
2020, 2021 Parsons Provost’s scholarship (50% tuition)
2021 Parsons Material Fund
2021 Parsons AMT Student Support Award
2022 - 2023, 2021 - 2022 Parsons Graduate Student Research Fund Award
Exhibition
Ephemera, 2022 Ars Electronica Festival, LinzOther links
p5.js sketchesMajor Studio 1 Website on Github,
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