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Botao Amber Hu

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About Botao Amber Hu

Affiliations (Current and Past)

Reality Design Lab
Facebook Reality Labs

Location

New York City, United States of America

Bio

SIGGRAPH Asia 2025

Botao ‘Amber’ Hu is a social computing researcher and experiential futures designer. He is an incoming DPhil student in Computer Science at the University of Oxford. As a researcher, his interest lies in Decentralized AI (DeAI) Governance, Protocol Science, and Artificial Life. As a designer, he creates experiential futures using social mixed reality as his primary medium. He also serves as a visiting lecturer at the China Academy of Art. He also directs Reality Design Lab, an independent interdisciplinary research and design lab exploring the intersection of soma design, speculative design, spatial computing, and social computing. His work has been featured at leading conferences including SIGGRAPH, CSCW, CHI, UbiComp, WWW, ISEA, IEEEVIS, ALIFE, Ars Electronica, SXSW, and TEDx. He has received numerous accolades, including the SIGGRAPH Best in Show, CHI Best Interactivity, Webby, Red Dot, iF Design, Good Design, A’ Design, Core77 Design Award, and grants from the Ethereum Foundation.

SIGGRAPH Asia 2024

Botao Amber Hu is a researcher, designer, educator, and creative technologist. He founded and leads Reality Design Lab an interdisciplinary research and design lab that focuses on the intersection of philosophy of technology, speculative design, spatial computing, and programmable cryptography. He also serves as a visiting lecturer at the China Academy of Art. His primary focus is on designing experiential futures within collocated mixed reality, democratizing education of mixed reality design, and exploring blockchain-based protocols for artificial life. His works have been featured at top conferences such as SIGGRAPH, CHI, UbiComp, WWW, ALIFE, CHI PLAY, CSCW, SXSW, and TEDx and have received accolades including the SIGGRAPH Best In Show, CHI Best Interactivity Award, Red Dot Design Award, iF Design Award, Webby Awards, A’ Design Awards, and Core77 Design Award. He holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Tsinghua University and a master’s degree in AI from Stanford University.

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