Researcher and Designer of Human-Computer Interaction
Yuxiang is a graduate researcher at the MIT Media Lab's Critical Matter Group, and a former Student Fellow at the Open Source Hardware Association. He builds open-source AI hardware for body-coupled robotics and fabrication — wearable, closed-loop systems for sensing and actuating the body, carried from lab prototype to manufacturable reference design.
His tech stacks involves: Design/Fabrication of mechatronic and embedded systems with a industrial design mindset Advanced manufacturing with novel materials and mechanics (e.g. compliant) Web development in the context of media arts and ubiquitous computing
Portable Somatic Wearable: AI-Assisted Reflection Through Gaze-Derived Somatic Markers Saetbyeol LeeYouk, Sergio Mutis, Yuxiang Cheng, and Behnaz Farahi Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '26), Barcelona, Spain · doi.org/10.1145/3772363.3799134
AimBot Integrating Assistive and Informative Haptics through Field-Oriented Controlled (FOC) Motor Force Dynamics Capstone Project, Work In Progress
Data Nomad A Ubiquitous Cooperative Data Acquisition Infrastructure based around Open Hardware Enabling the Private Production of Collective data Open Project, Long Term
Project Parallax A Speculative Detour around the First Person Dominance in the Extended Reality Individual Project, Summer 2024
ChatITP: Creative Biosphere An Interaction-Centered LLM Workspace Powered by Creativity from the Past Research Group Project, Long Term
Light Mnemonics Light-based memory and interaction art 
De Orbitis Planetarum Artistic exploration of planetary orbits 
MIDI Glove Fingerstyle performance with MIDI Glove 
Hit Fingerstyle performance with On-Guitar Projection Mapping 
