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Born in Shenzhen—China’s hardware Silicon Valley—I spent kindergarten drawing fractal-like petals that teachers dismissed as "not flowers." By second grade, as awards went to sycophants, not the curious, I designed and sold custom bookmarks that rippled a black market of creativity among classmates.

After an art teacher punished students for "wasting paint" (i.e., experimenting), I organized a rebellion: an open-ended weekend art event, encouraging creativity and exposing hypocrisy. Within months, parent complaints got him fired.

Outside school, I coded obsessively on Hopscotch, a children’s platform, creating thousands of projects—social networks, physics simulations, optical illusions—many trending community-wide. I taught myself English via late-night forum chats with people in EST and devoured podcasts on Perelman, Feynman, Curie, etc. My comics about coding adventures filled four drawers and were loved among my friends. I built mobile apps: a STEM resource hub and a tool for the myopic elderly. But my intensity and hyperfixation confused adults. Once, while explaining 3D rendering on a 2D engine to my Australian host family, I got punched and reported for "bullying." On a daily basis, teachers mocked that I should de-exist and monitored my calls.

Back in Shenzhen, I launched “The Quibbler” (a Harry Potter-inspired zine). Friends volunteered to draw, write, edit and distribute it. Every edition would expose flaws in the education system. It went viral in school, leading to two teachers being fired. Administrators panicked, banned it repeatedly and even analyzed the handwritings attempting to infer the authors. Friends kept resurrecting it. Kicked out of class for being "too nerdy", I’d sit in hallways reading astrophysics and physics books. A friend urged me: "This system’s rigged. Leave. Teach yourself like Faraday and Tesla."

So after elementary school, I relocated to Canada! Adults dismissed my interests as “baby science”. I gained a habit of focusing as people argued in the background, starting from financial markets: With $10k on a simulated trading platform with real market data, it grew into $40k over three months, and got top 1% in Canada’s UWaterloo financial literacy contest.

Several times I nearly died; In the emergency room, doctors called me racial slurs. I rewrote my system to be powerful, nurturing and wise inspired by Sumerian goddess Inanna. For context, my entire family is highly brilliant yet due to divergences and sleeplessness, did not win in the conventional system. But meh, Edison was deaf, Darwin was debilitated, Euler was blind, and at the birth of science people thought it was anti-church antiquity until proven value in practical warfare（・∀・）

In high school, I reverse-engineered these kinds of sci-fi tech adventures:

  1. Neurotech. I built with an OpenBCI biosensing kit from my bedroom, making EOG/EMG interfaces that controlled games with eye movements, detected facial expressions and generated music. I wrote technical analyses on Neuralink and Brain-Computer Interfaces for ADHD, which led to a collaboration with University of Waterloo’s multisensory brain and cognition lab. I gained some practical neuroscience knowledge (through 2nd place in Waterloo brain bee) and also theoretical (comp neuro courses)

  2. Quantum computing. As I didn’t know linear algebra, I brute-forced it by binging youtube and links 5 hours at a time. Subsequently, I joined a quantum physics research seminar. Delivering weekly presentations motivated me to quickly learn concepts such as the Sunyaev–Zeldovich effect and Hilbert spaces. My group delivered a final presentation about finite potential wells and published a review on quantum simulators.

  3. Swarm robotics. I heard of this concept from a UWaterloo engineering lab where I built a haptic hand interface to control a swarm of robots, and ran an interest group at Minerva University.

I practice Erdős's itinerant, social philosophy, excited by the object-layer cool things and sit in the unknown. These days, I’m rallying friends to build scent context protocol, arxiv wars and computing with neurons. Sci-fi fuels me—The Matrix, Interstellar, the Optimalverse, the genius trilogy etc. My projects are subtle defiances against systems that reward conformity over creativity. I’m drawn to technologies that expand human agency, whether through brain interfaces, multi-agent interactions, quantum leaps or more.
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