My Purpose

A human-centric techno-future cannot be created without immersive participation of the public in the process.

There are no lack of visionaries in lecture halls and industry conferences. What’s direly needed to effect representative change is a vibrant bridge connecting worlds of research and cross-cultural public conversations. Despite growing discussions within the circles of technologists, researchers and policymakers, the fast-evolving techno-social infrastructure that is rapidly reshaping the choices, identities and security of billions of people are still often developed, adopted and scaled without inclusive engagement and debates involving the broader public, including minority communities.

This is partly due to the understandable challenges of channeling intellectual research into the dailylife conversations of the many - without flattening the information - while also absorbing the bottom-up, diverse perspectives from societies to help prevent unintended harms of new technologies.

I aspire to be a ‘research-storyteller’ that may help to bring the two worlds a bit closer.

I try to do so by blending my journalism, academic research and digital storytelling skills that I’ve developed from over a decade of inter-disciplinary experience, spanning from being a breaking news curator at Reuters News in Hong Kong, a digital communications specialist on smart cities technologies in Germany, a co-founder of a blockchain-for-social-good research non-profit association, and a graduate student of technology policy.

Focus Topics:

Comparative research on AI policies

Fairness in AI

Surveillance and predictive policing

Digital self-determination

U.N. Sustainable Development Goals

Data protection and ethics

Digital autonomy

Blockchain for decentralised governance