Summary
Zihao Wang is a research-oriented software engineer with 9 years of hands-on experience building AR/3D experiences, front-end products, and cloud-integrated prototypes across academia and industry. Currently a Research Assistant at Texas A&M and a CUHK MMLab affiliate, he designs AR interactions using Unity/C#, Quest 3 hardware, GPT-driven handwriting recognition, and Firebase for real-time synchronization. He’s shipped consumer-facing front-end features that attracted 1,000+ active users and led Web‑AR projects using Three.js that improved rendering performance by 30%. His internships at Tencent and startups strengthened his TypeScript/React skills and state management expertise (Zustand, React Hooks) while contributing to open-source component work. Equally at home prototyping Science+Art installations as in powering AI-enabled task management in AR, Zihao blends creative systems thinking with pragmatic implementation to deliver delightful, interactive software.
9 years of coding experience