YITONG SUN

Systems, Sensing and Simulation

Joule-flocked smart textile project thumbnail.Joule-Flocked Smart TextilesWork in progressMIT CSAIL HCIStefanie Mueller’s Engineering Group2025–presentFour earthquake simulation scenarios comparing original buildings, destruction, recreated models, and simulation results.Realistic Earthquake SimulationAwarded EPSRC XR Network+ Grant (£60k) 2024Published in Computers & Graphics Journal 2024Best Paper Awarded and Presented at IMET 2023Delta-E color shift algorithm.Delta-E Colour Shift AlgorithmUK Patent Pending No. 2411463.9, 2024Winner at Innovation RCA Pitch Deck 2024Awarded S/EIS Research Seed Fund (£250k) 2024Posture Coach project thumbnail.Posture CoachAiDLab projectHKUST x RCA Computer Science Research CentreResearch Assistant / Wearable Electronics Engineer2023-2024DeepMetricEye system overview for periocular VR depth estimation.Deep Metric EyePresented at ISMAR 2023Contactless Ocular-State Interface project thumbnail.Contactless Ocular-State InterfaceUK Patent Pending No. 2413233.5, 2024.

Computational Life and Bio-Simulation

Evolutionary pathways of digital lifeforms and ecological states in a digital life system.Participatory Evolution of Artificial Life SystemsPresented at SIGGRAPH Asia 2025Fungal morphology simulation and dynamic light containment pipeline.Fungal Morphology SimulationPresented at SIGGRAPH Asia 2024Sun Light Simulator project thumbnail.Sun Light Simulator2022

Interactive Installations and Earlier Works

Force Feedback Glove project thumbnail.Force Feedback Glove2021Latent-Space project thumbnail.LATENT-SPACEHybrid Vision Digital Art Competition Nominations 2022Japan Media Arts Festival New Face Award 2020Cryptid project thumbnail.CRYPTIDArs Electronica Festival 2019Telestron project thumbnail.TELESTRONThe Day For Night Festival 2017Bored Little Computer prototype front view.Bored Little Computer2021 - Present