Tzu-Yun is a creative engineer, designer, and researcher playing with robots and physical interfaces around people. She tackles social requirements (characters, verbal and nonverbal communication) for home humanoids during her AI residency at 1X.

Experience

CobotRobotics Software Engineer

2026 — Now

Santa Clara, California, United States

Design and build Proxie HRI

1XAI Resident

2025 — 2025

Palo Alto, California, United States

Make interaction with NEO more joyful and magical!

Cornell UniversityRobotics & HRI Researcher

2024 — 2025

Ithaca, New York, United States

Design and create plant-robot hybrid prototypes by rapid prototyping and mechatronics design.

Conduct co-design user research with Prolific and Miro to understand the emotional bonds between humans and social robots.

Cornell UniversityGraduate Research Assistant

2021 — 2023

Ithaca, New York, United States

Design and build an automated capacitance measurement system for cyclic tests (> 100 cycles) on polymeric-based soft pressure and curvature sensors.

GoogleCS Research Mentorship Program (CSRMP) Fellow

2022 — 2022

Develop CS research opportunities in HCI, ML under the mentorship of experienced Google research scientists.

Education

Cornell University

Doctor of Philosophy - PhD (early exit with M.S.)

Cornell University

Master's degree

National Tsing Hua University

Bachelor of Science - BS

Shandong University

Experience+2

Education

Doctor of Philosophy - PhD (early exit with M.S.)

Master's degree

Bachelor of Science - BS

Visiting student

Experience