Xiaohan Liao
Doctoral Student at Inria
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolXiaohan Liao is a creative interactive designer and doctoral student based in Seattle with nine years of experience blending art and engineering to build intuitive, production-ready interfaces. She has designed and implemented UI systems for drones at BRINC, prototyped multimodal AI companions at Microsoft, and conducts research at Inria, demonstrating fluency across product, research, and prototype development. Comfortable shipping code as well as visual design, she programs in JavaScript, HTML5/CSS and Qt/QML to turn interaction concepts into functional demos under tight timelines. Her background in computing art and interaction design informs a human-centered approach that prioritizes cultural context and inclusive experiences. Notably, she pairs storytelling and LLM-driven prototyping to explore new modalities of agency in AI agents, bridging speculative research with tangible design artifacts.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
master of design interaction design, master of design interaction design at University of WashingtonUniversity of California, San DiegoMaster of Fine Arts - MFA Interaction design, Master of Fine Arts - MFA Interaction design at California College of the Arts
English, Chinese, Spanish
Github Skills (2)
mongodb6
scheduling3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
duststar0213/Expanded-Tools-Interactive
Jan 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:48 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
duststar0213/Projects
Jan 2017 - Jan 2017
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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