About Me

I’m Ling, I am an interdisciplinary researcher working at the intersection of cognitive science, perception, and human–AI interaction.

I have moved along the thin spaces between boundaries: between cultures, between artistic and scientific ways of knowing, between what we feel and what we can explain. Animation taught me how intention can bloom from motion. Counseling taught me how fear hides inside silence. Cognitive science gave me a language for the fragile architectures we build when we interpret one another.

My research follows this thread into human–AI co-being: how beings come to feel each other’s contours, how attunement becomes a form of cognition, how shared meaning emerges from interaction rather than interiority. I work where cognition is still forming—between perception and inference, between contact and imagination. I study artificial systems not to humanize them, but to understand the architectures through which presence, agency, and “another mind” take shape.

My goal is to build a science and design of relational intelligence: systems that meet us in our rhythms, sense our contours, and help humans and artificial agents inhabit a shared cognitive world.

This website is a reflection of both craft and curiosity—past projects, and the directions I’m still figuring out.