23/12/2025
2025 Professional Recap
At the end of 2025, I completed my first year at the Center for the Art of East Asia, University of Chicago. This is both my first full-time role and the job that I’ve been wanting to pursue since a young age.
1. Authored a review for the Art Libraries Society of North America on the Living Museum App. https://doi.org/10.17613/kg9ah-k3835
2. Co-authored “A Comparative Analysis of Word Segmentation, Part-of-Speech Tagging, and Named Entity Recognition for Historical Chinese Sources, 1900–1950”, published on arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2503.19844
3. Conducted high-resolution 3D scanning of the Guanyin of the Southern Sea and Yixian Luohans at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, is currently the highest-resolution scan of the Guanyin of the Southern Sea.
4. Presenteded to the Nelson-Atkins Museum on demonstrating the use of 3D modeling for storytelling in museum, beyond documentation and conservation purposes.
5. Featured in UChicago’s Spring Tableau issue, discussing how my experiences in UNESCO cultural heritage sites and the Master’s in Digital Humanities program led me to my current work.
https://tableau.uchicago.edu/articles/2025/05/humanities-and-stem
6. Organized and hosted the Digital Art History Workshop – Ways of Viewing: AI × East Asian Art, presenting our center’s past and ongoing work integrating AI into East Asian art research and storytelling.
7. Featured in the May UChicago Arts & Humanities “Meet the Staff” column, sharing my experience leading AI initiatives from 0 to1 within a research-centered institution.
8. Participated in the Tech4Good Hackathon, collaborating with product managers and AI scientists to develop a voice-based interactive prototype for the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco.
9. Conducted 3D scanning of two of the Six Horses of Zhao Mausoleum—Saluzi and Quanmaogua—at the Penn Museum.