Weili Shi
Senior Creative Technologist, AI Frontiers, Microsoft Research
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolWeili Shi is a Senior Creative Technologist at Microsoft Research's AI Frontiers, bringing a decade of experience designing interactive, immersive experiences for museums and cultural institutions. He blends deep technical fluency—Unity, Cinder, openFrameworks, TouchDesigner, shading languages, ML, and computer vision—with a strong design and storytelling sensibility honed through MFA training and roles at Bluecadet and G&A. Comfortable leading projects end-to-end, he moves from concept and prototyping through budgeting and production, delivering award-winning installations for institutions like MIT Museum, The Henry Ford, and the Royal Ontario Museum. As a digital media artist he uses custom-trained AIs and projection mapping to create contemplative, unconventional works (e.g., Manhattan-as-shanshui and Terra Mars swaps), and has shown at Ars Electronica and SIGGRAPH. He also taught graduate creative technology at Parsons and publishes academically, positioning him at the intersection of research, art, and production. An often-overlooked strength is his ability to translate experimental research prototypes into scalable, museum-ready installations that balance technological novelty with visitor experience.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Fine Arts (MFA), Design and Technology, Master of Fine Arts (MFA), Design and Technology at Parsons School of Design - The New SchoolMaster of Engineering (M.Eng.), Computer Science and Technology, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Computer Science and Technology at Tsinghua UniversityBachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electronic and Information Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electronic and Information Engineering at Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Chinese, English
Github Skills (36)
kotlin10
kotlin-jvm10
jvm9
animation9
webgl9
scene9
openframeworks8
java8
opengl8
cinder7
generative-model7
vulkan7
graph6
computer-vision5
generative-adversarial-network5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
shi-weili/Currents-Cinder
Sep 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:31 commits, 26 pushes, 2 comments in 6 months
shiwl/CC_Lab_2016_G
Sep 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:23 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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