​Liyao is a PGR student in Digital Humanities, mainly researching the intersection of digital media and perception. He primarily focuses on autonomous driving and video games. He holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and a master's degree in Arts, and is currently pursuing his Ph.D. at the School of Journalism, Fudan University.

His doctoral research examines the operational mechanisms of autonomous driving from a mediological perspective, analyzing the subsequent changes in human attention patterns. Concurrently, he is deeply interested in the generation of space and the sense of place within video games. He is utilizing open-world games as experiential fields to discuss how humans experience a mediated reality.​

An avid explorer of the outdoor world, he also enjoys adventuring in open-world games to experience the self and the world under different embodied states. Having conducted in-depth fieldwork in both the digital journalism and autonomous driving industries, he hopes to use himself as a medium to narrate the shifts occurring in the present world alongside technological development.

Research interests

• Media and human perception
• Attention in autonomous systems
• Sense of place in video games