Summary
Zihao Wang is a research-oriented software engineer with 9 years of hands-on experience building AR/3D experiences, front-end products, and cloud-integrated prototypes across academia and industry. Currently a Research Assistant at Texas A&M and a CUHK MMLab affiliate, he designs AR interactions using Unity/C#, Quest 3 hardware, GPT-driven handwriting recognition, and Firebase for real-time synchronization. He’s shipped consumer-facing front-end features that attracted 1,000+ active users and led Web‑AR projects using Three.js that improved rendering performance by 30%. His internships at Tencent and startups strengthened his TypeScript/React skills and state management expertise (Zustand, React Hooks) while contributing to open-source component work. Equally at home prototyping Science+Art installations as in powering AI-enabled task management in AR, Zihao blends creative systems thinking with pragmatic implementation to deliver delightful, interactive software.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen 香港中文大学(深圳)
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Texas A&M University