MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Kexin Wang

Kexin Wang

HCI Engineering Group
MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

kexinw@mit.edu  ·  kexinwang.works

Research

I work on digital fabrication and artificial life. My projects use programmable light and printed structure to direct living material, and treat fabrication itself as a way of computing: a laser that hands a slime mold an optimization problem and reads the answer out of its growth, origami tessellations that fold into their own power source, printed surfaces whose geometry decides where fibers land and how they sense.

I also build tools that carry research out of the lab, including an authoring platform for papers that contain the interactions they describe, and an engine that turns new research into hands-on courses. I trained as a fashion designer before moving into engineering.

Selected publications

  1. !nteractivesPub: Redistributing Author and Reader Effort through Interactive Academic Authoring
    Kexin Wang*, Yitong Sun*, Ticha Sethapakdi, Tianyu Yu, Yixin Wang, Stefanie Mueller
    CHI 2026 Extended Abstracts, Barcelona. *Equal contribution
  2. Participatory Evolution of Artificial Life Systems via Semantic Feedback
    Shuowen Li*, Kexin Wang*, Minglu Fang, Danqi Huang, Ali Asadipour, Haipeng Mi, Yitong Sun
    SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 Art Papers, Hong Kong. *Equal contribution
  3. Ori-TENG: 3D Printed Origami Tessellations as Triboelectric Nanogenerators for Self-powered Sensing and Energy Harvesting
    Marwa AlAlawi, Kexin Wang, Regina Zheng, Adelene Chan, Martin Feick, Stefanie Mueller
    UIST 2025 Adjunct, Busan. 🏆 Honorable Mention
  4. Exploring Fungal Morphology Simulation and Dynamic Light Containment from a Graphics Generation Perspective
    Kexin Wang, Ivy He, Jinke Li, Ali Asadipour, Yitong Sun
    SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 Art Papers, Tokyo.

Elsewhere