Hi, I'm Weili.

I'm a Senior Creative Technologist at Microsoft in New York, where I design and build experiences for people working alongside AI agents. At Microsoft Research, I led design and frontend engineering end to end for MagenticLite, an agentic AI research prototype.

Before Microsoft, I spent nearly a decade at Bluecadet and G&A creating interactive installations for museums, including MIT Museum and the Henry Ford Museum. As a creative technologist and often the technical lead, I carried projects from concept and prototyping through technical production, working with designers, writers, and producers to bring emerging technology into meaningful storytelling experiences.

Alongside my professional work, I create personal artwork that brings Zen contemplation to where technology meets art and the humanities. It has been presented at SIGGRAPH and IEEE VIS and exhibited at Ars Electronica Center and the National Museum of China. I also taught graduate courses in creative technology at Parsons School of Design.

Experience

Microsoft

Senior Creative Technologist · 2025–present
Design and frontend engineering for agentic AI research prototypes at Microsoft Research, including MagenticLite.

G&A

Senior Creative Technologist · 2023–2025
Technical lead for interactive museum experiences, including the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.

Bluecadet

Senior Developer · 2019–2023
Developer · 2016–2019
Interactive installations for museums, including MIT Museum and the Henry Ford Museum, often as lead developer.

Parsons School of Design

Adjunct Professor · 2016–2017
Graduate courses in the MFA Design and Technology program.

Education

Parsons School of Design

MFA, Design and Technology · 2014–2016

Tsinghua University

M.Eng., Computer Science and Technology · 2010–2014

Huazhong University of Science and Technology

B.Eng., Electronic and Information Engineering · 2003–2007