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Nancy Zuo nancyzuo.com(510) 320-4457nancyzuo01@gmail.com | Nancy Zuo tells stories that span multiple mediums — interactive tabletop games to large-scale performance art installations. Her practice bridges seemingly distant worlds between paper and screen, digital and physical, past and future, east and west. |
2026-2028 | National Cheng Kung University M.A. Creative Industries Design Media and Interaction Design MOE Taiwan Scholarship |
2019-2024 | Carnegie Mellon University B.S. Digital Immersive Storytelling (Student-Defined Major) Minors in Design and Human-Computer Interaction University Honors, Senior Leadership Recognition Study Abroad: Oxford Internet Institute (Computer Science), Shanghai International Studies University (Chinese Language and Culture) Thesis: “History of Carnegie Mellon: An Archival Record.” Advised by Stephan Caspar, Kelli Maxwell, and Emily Davis. Supported by Frank Ratchye STUDIO of Creative Inquiry. (link) |
2025.10.9 | “The Orange Experience.” Infinity Festival Student Lab. Los Angeles, CA. |
2025.4.30 | “The Orange Experience.” ASU MIX Spring Mixhibition, Mesa, AZ. (link) |
2024 | “Windows XP.” AME 598 Designing Emerging Media Art Installations, Mesa, AZ. (link) |
2023 | “Celebrations.” 15-661 Interaction & Expression using the Pausch Bridge, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA. (link) |
2022 | “Clay-R House.” AR House Spring Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA. (link) |
2026 | “Handheld”, FMT100 Introduction to Production (Will Goldstein), Scottsdale, AZ. |
2025 | “Made in China?”, FMP 592 Directing Documentary Media (Luiza Parvu), Mesa, AZ. (link) |
2024 | “Drone Love”, MIT AI Filmmaking Hackathon, Cambridge, MA. (link) |
2024 | “Tick Tock”, SXSW Worlds for Change, Arizona State University, Austin, TX. (link) |
2023 | “Alexa,” CMU International Film Festival, Pittsburgh, PA. (link) |
2023 | “The Thistle,” CMU University Archives, Pittsburgh, PA. (link) |
2023 | “Behind the Scenes of Mehran’s Steakhouse,” New York City, NY. (link) |
2021 | “lARp,” University of Virginia HooHacks, Remote. (link) |
2021 | “intARnet,” Carnegie Mellon TartanHacks, Pittsburgh, PA. (link) |
2021 | “Catiator,” Stanford TreeHacks, Remote. (link) |
2025 | Artist Opportunity Grant, Arizona Commission on the Arts, Phoenix, AZ. |
2024 | Finalist, “Tick Tock”, SXSW Worlds for Change, Arizona State University. |
2023 | Microgrant, “CMU History,” Frank Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry. |
2023 | First Place, “Alexa,” CMU International Film Festival, Pittsburgh, PA. |
2022 | Modern Languages Pickering Scholarship, Pittsburgh, PA. |
2021 | Qualifier, Pinnacle “The Olympics of Hackathons,” Dallas, TX. |
2021 | First Place Gaming and Art Hack, “lARp”, University of Virginia HooHacks, Remote. |
2021 | Scott Krulcik Grand Prize, “intARnet”, Carnegie Mellon TartanHacks, Pittsburgh, PA. |
2021 | Moonshot Grand Prize, “Catiator”, Stanford TreeHacks, Remote. |
2025 | Chandler Creative Fellow, Arizona State University Worked with local artists to ideate community traffic box artwork in the city of Chandler. |
2023 | Innovation Scholar, CMU Schwartz Center for Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship fellowship for Carnegie Mellon Undergraduates. |
2022 | Identity Review Fellowship Global think tank dedicated to issues related to the data economy. |
2022 | AR House, Art & Gaming Track Residency in the Hollywood Hills for extended reality artists and creators. |
2022 | Kernel KB5 Fellow, Gitcoin Learning community creating the internet of the future. |
2021 | Edyfi New York Hacker house located in the Upper East Side. Original home of Mehran’s Steakhouse (link). |
2025-26 | VR Specialist, Act One Conduct VR field trips focused on local artists for schools around Arizona in classrooms. |
2025 | 3D Artist, District Cinema Created Unreal Engine compatible 3D Korean cuisine food assets for a cooking game with Movin3D motion capture system. |
2025 | 3D Artist, E-Line Media Created game-ready 3D prop assets and authored Blender-to-Unity export workflows to support interactive production pipelines. |
2024 | Tour Guide, Carnegie Mellon Admissions Conducted 70-minute walking tours to prospective students and parents. |
2023-24 | Student Assistant, Carnegie Mellon University Archives Curated archival materials for Dietrich undergraduate Grand Challenge Seminar course. |
2022-24 | Community Talent Operative, 1517 Fund Hosted events and attended hackathons as a sponsor across the U.S. and Canada. |
2022 | AR Product Design Intern, Meta Reality Labs Designed memory and sharing interactions for Ray Bans Stories Smartglasses. |
2021 | Agency Instructional Design Intern, State Farm Created marketing and learning content for insurance agents. |
2021 | Web Designer, Matt’s Maker Spaces Designed a website for elementary school maker spaces around the Pittsburgh area. |
2020-21 | Online Private Instructor, iD Tech Camps Tutored students in Python, Video Editing, Roblox Studio, and Lens Studio. |
2019 | Video Editor, News for Chinese Created video ads and features for local businesses around the San Francisco Bay Area. |
2014-18 | Teaching Assistant, May’s Art School Provided instruction for Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator courses. |
2025 | Graduate Research Assistant, Endless Labs, Arizona State University Created 3D prop assets and assisted in creating 3D modeling tutorials. |
2024 | Graduate Research Assistant, MediatedX Lab, Arizona State University Worked on weather sensing visualization for the City of Mesa and creating workflow to preview drone formations to pitch to Nova Sky Stories. |
2023 | Research Assistant, Computer Human Interaction: Mobility Privacy Security Lab Conducted research study on issues of privacy pertaining to seed phrases in cryptocurrency wallets. |
2023 | Research Assistant, Augmented Perception Lab, Carnegie Mellon Worked on understanding the extent to which “change blindness” is affected in a virtual reality setting. |
2022 | Research Assistant, Improving Cognitive Efficacy Lab, Carnegie Mellon Conducted clinical research study on how note-taking by hand compares to note-taking on a computer. |
2021-Now | General Zuo’s Chicken. Various Titles. Substack. (link) |
2024.11.15 | Kernel Magazine. “San Francisco Circa 2030,” Luck, edited by Jessica Zhou and Jessica Dai. (link) |
2024 | The Melon. “Information That Lives On.” (link) |
2024 | The Phoenix. “Making the World a Better Place.” (link) |
2023.10.31 | The Tartan. “Carnegie Mellon Should be Renamed Carnegie Mellon Dietrich University.” (link) |
2021.8.11 | Design Buddies Newsletter. “What the Heck Tech: A Design Wreck.” (link) |
2021.4.19 | Design Buddies Newsletter. “A Guide to Joining Hackathons as a Designer.” Edited by Jack Shugrue. (link) |
2026 | Compass Fellowship Web, Graphic Designer, Video Production, and Instructor. Taipei, Taiwan. (link) |
2025 | Projection Designer for production of “Indecent.” Scottsdale Community College, Scottsdale, AZ. |
2025 | SIGGRAPH Asia Student Video Production Volunteer. Hong Kong. |
2025 | SIGGRAPH North America Student Volunteer. Vancouver, Canada. (link) |
2025 | Summer Program on Applied Rationality and Cognition (SPARC). Cal State East Bay, CA. |
2023 | Figma Campus Leader, Pittsburgh, PA. |
2022 | Summer Program on Applied Rationality and Cognition (SPARC), Berkeley, CA. |
2022 | Judge, Superposition Hackathon. San Francisco, CA. |
2021 | Mentor, Girls in STEM. Irvington High School, Fremont, CA. |
2018 | iArtsTech Foundation. Anhui, China. |
2016 | Expanding Learning Frontiers. Guangzhou, China. |
2025.8.19 | “University Archives Alumni: Where Are They Now?” Carnegie Mellon University Libraries. (link) |
2024.4.22 | “Uncovering CMU’s Lost Archives with Nancy.” States of Ongoingness, Comma Studio. (link) |
2022. 3. 12 | “Kernel Block 5 Week 4 and Special Guests Ami Yoshimura and Nancy Zuo.” (link) |
2021.3.29 | “Hackathons give HCII Student Energy.” Carnegie Mellon HCI. (link) |