Chen Wu-Wei, the IIC Congress Scholar, is now an Associate Professor of AFCT at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University and an Honorary XJTLU Association for the University of Liverpool. His research projects on the digitisation of rock carvings and cave temples have been published in peer-reviewed SCIE journals (ISPRS Archive, CIPA and HCI conferences, SIGGRAPH Asia conferences, ACM Digital Library), book chapters (Springer), and submitted manuscripts under review (Routledge, Vernon Press). Chen is also responsible for the editorial board of GHSS and serves as a reviewer for SPAFA Journal. Prof. Chen previously worked on the digital documentation of caves and niches in China and Korea. He is currently focusing on the tangible and intangible cultural heritage of Indonesia, West and Central Asia.

Research site: https://www.bodyasechoes.com/dha

PG Modules

• Teaching

Curation Project

Techniques for Creative Industry

Cultural Industries Research Project (PG dissertation supervision)

Intellectual Property Design and Development

UG Modules

• Teaching

FYP: Moving Image (UG graduation project supervision)

Major Project (UG dissertation supervision)

• Taught

Motion  Design

Intro of Communication Design (Co-teaching)

Digital Hertiage 

• Memory Twin to connect ICH and tangible heritage 
• Digital Twin for cave temples, grottoes, caves and niches in pan-Asia region
• GLAM and Museology for cyber-archiving
• Virtual restoration for relic conservation

Software Studies and Computational Thinking

• Media archaeology
• Time-based media conservation

Phenomenology

• Continental Philosophy 
• Phenomenological Aesthetics
• Maurice Merleau-Ponty 
• Paul Virilio

Calligraphy

• Chinese calligraphy and digital performance 
• Islamic calligraphy

Graphic Design

• kinetic and interactive typography, book and print
• The world and philosophy of Kohei Sugiura

New York University

• Research Catalyst Prize, PI
• NYU Shanghai Seed Funding, CO-PI
• NYU Shanghai 5-Year Service Award, Award Winner

Savannah College of Art and Design

• SCAD Hong Kong 5-Year Service Award, Award Winner

Academia

Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, 2024.9-Now | Associate Professor

NYU Shanghai, 2017.9-2024.8 | Assistant Arts Professor

Savannah College of Art and Design (HK location), 2011.1-2016.12 | Professor of Motion Media

Hong Kong Design Institute, 2007.9-2010.8 | Lecturer

Shih Chien University Design School, 2002.9-2005.8 | Lecturer

Industry

Artichoke.TV, New York, 2001-2002 | Freelance Designer, Animator

Chinese TV Network, 1997-1999 | Non-Linear Editor