2026 PhD, The University of Tokyo, Japan
2010 MtID, Master of Tangible Interaction Design, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
2007 BS, Bachelor in Electronic Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
2007 Certificate, Digital Content Program, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
2023 - Present Researcher, xLab, University of Tokyo, Japan
2017 - Present Co-Founder, Natura Machina artist collectives, St.Pete-Berkeley-Tokyo
2018 - 2023 Lecturer, Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.
2018 - 2023 Research Staff, Hybrid Ecology Lab, UC Berkeley, CA.
2021 - 2022 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Institute for Applied Arts, NYCU, Taiwan.
2021 - 2023 Adjunct II Professor, UDIST, California College of the Arts.
2020 - 2021 Co-Founder, OVERGROWNN group, Berkeley, CA.
2019 - 2020 Director of Experiential Technology, Vibrant Labs, San Francisco, CA.
2018 - 2021 Lab Manager, CITRIS Invention Lab, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.
2017 - Spring, Artist Residency in Yasuaki Kakehi Lab, Keio University, Yokohama, Japan.
2011 - 2017, Lead Technologist, Tellart LLC, Providence, RI.
2010 Summer, Artist Assistant, Ian Ingram Studio, Pittsburgh, PA.
2007 Summer, Research Assistant, Creativity Lab, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Hsinchu, Taiwan.
2024 Summer, Internship, NTT Social Informatics Laboratories, Tokyo, Japan
Kuan-Ju Wu. Youyang Hu, Chiaochi Chou, Yasuaki Kakehi. ”Sensus Pond: Exploring Water as Sensing Medium for More-than-Human Observation." International Association of Societies of Design Research, IASDR ’25.
Rintaro Chujo*, Yuchi Yahagi*, Kuan-Ju Wu* and Yuiko Fujita. ”To Play or Not to Play: Ethnographic Insights into Designers’ Co-Creation in an Adventure Playground" International Association of Societies of Design Research, IASDR ’25.
Joel Ong and Kuan-Ju Wu, “Weaving Water, Interleaving Silence”, IEEE VIS PQP Arts Program 2025, Vienna, Austria
Jiabao Li, Ziyuan Jiang, Kuan-Ju Wu, and Yasuaki Kakehi. 2025. Cryoscape: AI-Interpreted 3D Ice Printing as Climate Commentary. In Proceedings of the SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 - Art Papers (SA Art Papers '25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 17, 1–6.
Jiabao Li, Ziyuan Jiang, Kuan-Ju Wu, and Yasuaki Kakehi. 2025. CryoScapes: Landscape Painting with Water, Ice, and AI. SIGGRAPH Art Gallery '25.
Wu, Kuan-Ju, Tomomi Nitta, Duim Huh, Mikhail Mansion, and Yasuaki Kakehi. "Signs of Water—Mirror: a Reflection on Digital Narcissism and Extinction of Experience." In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Electronic Art, pp. 892-899. 2025. ISEA ‘25
Mansion, Mikhail, Kuan-Ju Wu, and Yasuaki Kakehi. "Atmospheric Interspaces: Environment-Driven Soundforms at the Edge." In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Electronic Art, pp. 968-971. 2025. ISEA ‘25
Wu, Kuan-Ju, Hiroki Kaimoto, Mikhail Mansion, and Yasuaki Kakehi. "WETform: A Multimodal Water Experience Testbed with Surface Manipulation." In Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 1-6. 2025. CHI ‘25, ACM
Wu, Kuan-Ju. "Water as a Collaborative Medium: Rethinking Human-Nature Engagement." In Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 1-5. 2025. CHI ‘25, ACM
Wu, Kuan-Ju. "Designing with Water: From Material to Metaphor to More-than-Human Mindset." In Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, pp. 1-5. 2025. TEI ‘25, ACM
Mansion, Mikhail, Kuan-Ju Wu, and Yasuaki Kakehi. "Heat Waves: Thermoacoustics in Ecological Sound Art." In Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, pp. 1-6. 2025. TEI ‘25, ACM
Wu, Yuan-Shao, Chun-Cheng Hsu, Wei-Chen Yen, Chiao-Ni Hsu, and Kuan-Ju Wu. "Breathing Life into Slime: The Creation of Kinetic Sculptures from Non-Newtonian Fluids." Leonardo (2025): 168-176.
Wu, Kuan-Ju, Harpreet Sareen, and Yasuaki Kakehi. "The Ways of Water: A Guiding Metaphor for Designing Calm Technologies." In Proceedings of the Halfway to the Future Symposium, pp. 1-9. 2024. HttF ‘24, ACM
McGregor, Andrew, and Kuan-Ju Wu. "Lichen and Machine Interaction to Facilitate Human Connection." IRCA ’21, IEEE
Karchemsky, Mitchell, J. D. Zamfirescu-Pereira, Kuan-Ju Wu, François Guimbretière, and Bjoern Hartmann. "Heimdall: A remotely controlled inspection workbench for debugging microcontroller projects." In Proceedings of the 2019 - CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 1-12. 2019. CHI ‘19, ACM
Wu, Kuan-Ju, and Andrew McGregor. "Natura Machina: Teenage Meadow." In Proceedings of the 2019 - Conference on Creativity and Cognition, pp. 432-435. 2019. C&C ‘19, ACM
Wu, Kuan-Ju, Mark D. Gross, and Mark Baskinger. "Giffi: a gift for future inventors." In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction, pp. 335-336. 2012. TEI ‘12, ACM
Willis, Karl DD, Cheng Xu, Kuan-Ju Wu, Golan Levin, and Mark D. Gross. "Interactive fabrication: new interfaces for digital fabrication." In Proceedings of the fifth International Conference on Tangible, embedded, and embodied interaction, pp. 69-72. 2010. TEI ‘10, ACM
Wu, Kuan-Ju, and Mark D. Gross. "Topaoko: interactive construction kit." In Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 3619-3624. 2010. CHI ‘10, ACM
2025 - Giving Time, Sonoaida, Tokyo, Japan
2025 - WETform, CHI Interactivity, Tokyo, Japan
2025 - Heat Waves, CAPC, Bordeaux, France
2025 - Wavy, xlab Showcase, Tokyo, Japan
2025 - Cryoscapes, Ether Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2024 - Soundform No.2, Future Scape Projects, Yokoyama, Japan
2024 - Signs of Water: Mirror, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
2024 - Signs of Water, interactivité, Lapin et Halot Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2023 - Signs of Water, Ichikawa Art Festival, Chiba, Japan
2023 - Emils, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria.
2023 - Soundform No.4, NTT ICC アニュアル 2023 -, Tokyo, Japan
2022 - Soundform No.2, Sense Island, Yokosuka Sarushima, Japan
2022 - Ethereal Cycles (Soundform No.3), INTERSECT BY LEXUS, Tokyo, Japan
2022 - Frog-O-Lily, Incarnated Ghost group show, Lee & Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2021 - Ballet of the Final Anthozoans, Fairgrounds, St.Pete, FL
2021 - Signs of Life, Fairgrounds, St.Pete, FL
2020 - Core Sample 核芯樣本, 臺灣當代文化實驗場 C-LAB, Taipei, Taiwan
2020 - Core Sample 核芯樣本, 2020 - DigiWave｜無條件進位 CeilToInt();, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2020 - Soundform No.1, Japan Media Art Festival Excellent Award, Tokyo, Japan
2020 - Natura Machina: Teenage Meadow, Digital Craft Exhibition at Applied Contemporary, Oakland, CA
2019 - Natura Machina: Teenage Meadow, CODAME ART+TECH Festival, San Francisco, CA
2019 - Soundform No.1, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria.
2018 - NaturaMachina: Newborn, Vibrant Matter: Artworks Refiguring Form, Los Angeles, CA
2018 - Playform, Currents New Media Festival, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
2016 - Waveform 2.0, Granoff Center Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
2014 - TOOL, Cooper Hewitt Design Museum, New York City, USA, (Sketchbot)
2011 - Interacción I/O/I, Disseny Hub Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. (GIFFI)
2011 - Three River Festival, Assemble Gallery, Pittsburgh, USA. (GIFFI, ROBBBUTTERFLY, PLUNKO)
2011 - Maker Faire Bay Area, San Mateo County Event Center, San Mateo, USA. (GIFFI)
2011 - 3DDC, Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC, USA, (Cutter)
2010 - Maker Faire NY, New York Hall of Science, New York, USA. (Cutter)
2010 - Frame Gallery, Pittsburgh, USA. (Head Monster)
2020 - 23rd Japan Media Arts Festival 文化庁メディア芸術祭 Art Division Excellence Award (Natura Machina)
2017 - Core77 Notable Interaction Award: Museum of the Future: Machinic Life (Tellart)
2017 - Best of CES Award Engadget: Toyota Concept-i (Tellart)
2015 - IXDA Interaction Award Shortlist in Engaging: The Coffee Connector (Tellart)
2014 - Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum's permanent collection: Sketchbot (Tellart)
2014 - Core77 Interaction Professional Notable: The Binoculars (Tellart)
2013 - IXDA Interaction Award Finalist in Engaging: Chrome Web Lab (Tellart)
2013 - Core77 Interaction & Exhibition Winner: Chrome Web Lab (Tellart)
UTokyo Innovation for Intelligent World Fellowship (2023 -2026)
UC Berkeley Creative Curriculum Grant 2022 - 2023
UC Berkeley Professional Development Fund 2021 - 2022
Taiwan Ministry of Culture Arts and Technology: Creative Innovation and Counseling Project 2020
UC Berkeley Professional Development Fund 2018 - 2019
2023 - Spring, Instructor: Designing Emerging Technology I, UC Berkeley, Berkeley CA
2022 - Summer, Instructor: Maker Launchpad Program, UC Berkeley, Berkeley CA
2022 - Spring, Instructor: Material and Tangible Interaction Workshop, Institute for Applied Arts, NYCU, Taiwan.
2022 - Spring, Instructor: Designing Emerging Technology I, UC Berkeley, Berkeley CA
2022 - Spring, Instructor: Creative Programming and Electronics, UC Berkeley, Berkeley CA
2021 - Fall, Instructor: Computational & Studio Practice, California College of the Arts, San Francisco CA
2021 - Fall, Instructor: New Material and Design Workshop, Institute for Applied Arts, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan.
2021 - Summer, Instructor: Creative Programming and Electronics, UC Berkeley, Berkeley CA
2020 - Spring, Instructor: Creative Programming and Electronics, UC Berkeley, Berkeley CA
2019 - Summer, Instructor: Creative Programming and Electronics, UC Berkeley, Berkeley CA
2019 - Spring, Instructor: Creative Programming and Electronics, UC Berkeley, Berkeley CA
2018 - Spring, Instructor: Reimagining Mobility, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.
2016 - Fall, Instructor: Internet of Trees, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2016 - Spring, Instructor: Creative Imaging Lab, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2015 - Fall, Instructor: Drawing Machine, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
2011 - Spring, Teaching Assistant: Experimental Form, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.
2010 - Spring, Lecturer: Making Things Interactive, School of Architecture, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.
“Artists’ Talk”, ICC, Japan 2023.12.23
“p55p:poetry-people-politics-pedagogy-processing”, Processing Community Day 2021.11.17
“Kunya Kunya Workshop”, SCCD, Taiwan 2021.4.24
“Poetic Electronics”, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan 2021.4.13
“Co-Living Co-Healing Workshop”, Institute of Applied Arts, NYCU, Taiwan 2021.3.12
“Natura Machina”, MindshareLA, USA 2019.08.03