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Yixi (Chris) Wu

Design engineer · Founder of Lino

Work

Lino · lino.one · Dec 2025 – Present

Solo Founder

Design, build and run Lino, a canvas that people and an AI agent share. Its core idea: Intent Engineering.

Engineered the agent: its context from the canvas, user and canvas memory, tools and skills, permission modes and human-in-the-loop review.

Did the rest alone too: product strategy, interaction design, the infinite canvas and editor, sync, subscriptions and the website.

Launched on macOS in Sep 2026 after ~3,000 commits; Windows in beta.

Glance (Veryloving, Inc.) · Jun – Aug 2024

AI Product Design Intern

Designed concept, interaction and form for AI earphones whose case has a screen: one docks into a desktop robot, another’s screen slides open like a lid.

Research

CMU · Spring 2026

Master’s Thesis: Witness

Built a system that lets a personal agent see the physical world: a Swift capture app, a vision-language pipeline and a three-tier memory.

Lived with it for 157 hours and found that seeing was the easy part. The hard part is deciding which moments actually matter.

CMU · 2025 – 2026

Research Assistant

Interactive Structures Lab. Co-designed a new version of the robotic wall.

WHY Lab. Rebuilt and extended open-source hardware from e-waste.

Laboratory for Cybernetics. Designed and built the lab’s website.

Publications

Objects with Arms: How Task-Relevant Embodiment Shapes Perception in Physical Collaboration. V. Y. Han, Z. Wei, A. Y. Li, C. Wu, A. Ion. IEEE RO-MAN 2026.

Projects

Risee · 2025 · solo

LLM actions orbit any text you select, as a ring you turn with the arrow keys. Any prompt becomes an action; short text runs on faster, cheaper models.

Piko · 2025 · led a team of 4

A wearable AI companion that catches you doomscrolling. Built its hardware: a 3D-printed skeleton (up to 10 versions per part) and the code that moves it.