# Tianxu Zhou

> Product Engineer | Creative Technologist

Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/tianxu

## Work Experience
### Design Engineer @ Hornet
Jan 2026 – Present
Revamping and rebuilding the marketing site, partnering with designers to bring interaction and motion concepts to life

### AI Product Engineer @ Torch
Jan 2025 – Jan 2025
Acquired Praxis Labs

### AI Product Engineer @ Praxis Labs
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | New York, United States
Lead full-stack development with a focus on frontend for a AI-driven conversational agent and Learning Management platform. 

Created lifelike and expressive facial animations that programmatically match real-time voice conversations using Three.js and React

Collaborate with design and research teams to prototype and refine features while ensuring code reliability with unit testing. 

Tech Stack: Figma, TypeScript, Next.js, React, and MongoDB.

### Tech Lead (Experience Feature team) @ Praxis Labs
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | New York, United States
Led full-stack development of AI-powered WebGL software, increasing learner confidence in giving constructive feedback from 57% to 85%
   - implemented UI, 3D character animations, and particle systems for enhanced visual effects
   - partnered with learning scientists to craft and optimize prompts 
   - enhanced WebGL performance, integrated APIs, streamlined QA process, implemented data analytics and error management strategies

### VR Interactive Engineer @ Praxis Labs
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | New York, United States
Developing interactions in Unity, improving UI/UX, creating character animation and retargeting facial mocap in Motion Builder, for a VR learning platform that aims to advance workspace diversity and inclusion

### Lead Interactive Engineer @ Baidu, Inc.
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Remote
Led the interaction design and prototype of the metaverse convention center for Baidu Create 2022

### Web Designer and Developer @ New York University
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
Reorganized the content structure of ITP/IMA faculty internal website, designed its UX and UI using Figma and built the site with WordPress, specifically focusing on digital accessibility

### Virtual Reality Software Engineer @ Tinker Studio
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Seattle, Washington, United States
Designing and developing hand pose interaction, implementing cloud storage in firebase and fixing voice networking bugs in Unity for 2021 Sundance Festival New Frontier-Tinker VR

### Technical Artist @ CAOYUXI studio
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | New York, United States
1. Wrote fragment shaders in ISFEditor and translated the shaders into filters and generators in Motion for audio-visual project editing
2. Designed and built a mobile website using Vue.js, three.js and Shader as a companion app for Dimensional Sampling exhibited at Nxt Museum

### User Experience Designer @ Mobile Now Group
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Shanghai City, China
1. Delivered design solutions through wireframes, design specifications and rapid prototyping, launched three new mobile products
2. Created micro-interactions and optimized existing wireframes for Sephora Mini-program through weekly design sprints; the program influenced more than 1M users and the redesign increased the daily active users by 30%

### Product Manager @ Shanghai qiangjiang network technology company
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Shanghai City, China
Conducted user research, designed welfare mall platform prototype for Staples (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., organized user testing and launched the system that benefited more than 1,000 employees


## Education
### Master's degree in Interactive telecommunications
New York University

### Bachelor of Engineering - BE in Digital media techonology
Jiangnan University

### Exchange program in Interactive Multimedia and Design
Carleton University

### Innovation Camp
The University of Hong Kong


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/tianxu-zhou-908206157

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JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/tianxu/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-23