I work for the Victorian Department of Education as Senior Advisor, where I focus on strategic planning and partnership development for cutting-edge Victorian school STEM facilities and ecosystem. 

Having worked across academic, government and community organisations, I bring innovation, evidence-based research and civic engagement to educational infrastructure initiatives. I am committed to designing better systems and building stronger networks at the intersection of digital technologies, community action and built environment.
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My monograph, Reassembling Digital Placemaking: Participation and Politics, is available with Routledge. #Placemaking emphasises creating spaces beyond mere infrastructural delivery to an ongoing process of engagement, inspiration, governance and narration, through which a common sense of place emerges and sustains. A development of my doctoral dissertation, this book examines digital placemaking as a testing ground for urban politics through practices like urban activism, creative branding, tech placemaking and digital governance. It proposes a tripartite assemblage model of urban politics as issue-based, sociotechnically-enabled, relational and cosmopolitical.

My co-edited book with Nikos Papastergiadis and Danielle Wyatt, Place without Borders: Arts Precincts and Public Culture in Victoria, is forthcoming with Surpllus (Melbourne) in 2026.
 
I am an Accredited Mental Health First Aider with Mental Health First Aid Australia, with International Association of Public Participation Australasia (IAP2) engagement and PRINCE2 Project Management certificates. I work, write and teach in English and Mandarin.
 
Prior and during completing my PhD with the University of Melbourne, I have been teaching and researching digital media communications. I research continue to research the intersection of technologies, analytics, built environment and urban governance, focusing on Australia, China and Taiwan. My research interest are continued on ORCID and Google Scholar.

In my free time, I write about Passive Houses (Passivehaus) in Australia and occasionally write about philosophy with PhiloMedium. I am particularly fascinated by the writings of Hannah Arendt and Bruno Latour. I am actively mentoring via Ask Alumni program in the University of Melbourne. I also manage small art projects, go on hikes and outback camp in #Straya.

While upholding democracy as a continuous negotiation amongst governments, businesses and civil societies, I value everyday community action, knowledge and storytelling. My interdisciplinary work has always been propelled by an urgency to understand urban complexities and digital ambiguities and help build a multicultural, pluralistic and inclusive social environment.

I welcome collaboration opportunities on research, writing and project management. Drop a line.