I am a Ph.D. student in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago. My work explores media technologies — from mid-20th-century film projectors to contemporary cryptographic systems and CAPTCHAs.

I generally adopt a post-hermeneutic approach, asking how the material specificities of media infrastructures quietly structure sociopolitical relations, power distributions, and possibilities of perception.

Current / ongoing projects include:

• A media-archaeological history of CAPTCHAs as sites of human–machine boundary work
• The political ecology and cultural life of Chinese programming languages
• Knowledge management platforms (Notion, Obsidian, Zotero, etc.) and new forms of cognitive alienation
• Preparing for qualifying exams in politics of computing, materialisms, and media theory

Before joining UChicago, I received an M.A. from Columbia University and a B.A. from Tsinghua University. My most recent CV is available here.