Technology healed by technology.

Andy Zeng

Human-Centered Systems Builder

From tech overuse to tools for language, learning, and attention.

I build around problems I have lived: a Yao speech workflow, a study device for my younger sister, and a reflection-first app for screen control, a Captcha that fights back against AI scrapers.

Bridgelingua

1,500+
Languages support fine-tune pipeline

Bridgelingua

5,000+
Speech recorded to test Yao fine-tune

Domi

400+
Units sold through local promotion and Xianyu

Youtube

100,000+
Subscribers

FOCUSFLOW

1,000+
Users

CAPTCHA

10
Technical claims under patent review
PSA Gold Medal landscape photograph by Andy Zeng.

Qinghai, China

PSA Gold Medal award-winning work

Andy with rural children after a dyslexia screening session.

Rural GUangxi, China

Selfie after a dyslexia awareness lecture at East Ethnic Primary School in my hometown. For most of these children, it was their first screening — they wouldn't let me leave.

Field interview during Yao dialect recording in Du'an County.

Rural GUangxi, China

Recording Yao dialect speech audio in Du'an Yao Autonomous County — my grandfather's hometown — to collect datasets for testing the Bridgelingua speech recognition fine-tune pipeline.

Main Project

Bridgelingua

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Shipped an ASR app and a fine-tuning pipeline for thousands of low-resource languages. Now scaling as a digitization kit for UNESCO IDIL.

Orchestrated Yao volunteers to record and label 5,000+ utterances, creating dataset for fine-tuning and validation.

Built upon Meta’s OmniASR, this SOP pipeline trains lightweight models into deployable voice assistants. Now packaging it as a universal kit (IPA-config, QA, scripts) to digitize 1,500+ low-resource languages, with 100+ already passing baseline WER tests.

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Why it started

I started it after seeing how a language can disappear digitally when no public dataset exists.

What was built

With bilingual volunteers, I built recording, labeling, translation, and spoken-output tools that can be reused for other low-resource languages.

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Translation page, supporting hundreds of indigenous languages

Main Project

Domi

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Featured

A study device built for my younger sister has already generated 400+ local orders.

Led 5 hardware iterations with an EE senior, deploying a custom posture-tracking AI model[1] optimized for edge chips (96%+ accuracy).

Shipped a complete ecosystem (device + parent/teacher/child apps). The marketable prototype has now reached 400+ families.

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Why it started

It began with one family problem: tutoring only worked when posture, focus, and guidance were designed together.

What was built

I built linked child, parent, and teacher experiences plus an edge posture model, then iterated the hardware five times.

Paper draft

A first-author arXiv draft documents the child-posture pipeline behind Domi's on-device feedback.

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PCB, prototype, or iteration evidence

Domi prototype iteration evidence.

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A research paper on a AIGC synthetic data pipeline—the core technology powering Domi's on-device posture recognition.

Main Project

FocusFlow

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A self-control app grounded in habit psychology, designed to fix my own tech overuse when external blockers failed.

Replaced rigid screen-time limits with a system that analyzes usage triggers and prompts active and regular reflection.

After successfully stabilizing my own focus, launched the app publicly to support 1,000+ active users.

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Why it started

After bypassing macOS Screen Time and reporting the loophole to Apple, I stopped believing blocking alone could fix overuse.

What was built

FocusFlow asks for reflection before AI help, so the product trains awareness instead of outsourcing discipline.

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AI check-in or reflection flow

FocusFlow AI check-in flow.

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Photography

Observation, structure, and atmosphere

Landscape work stays as the quiet tail of the page: place, human trace, structure, and atmosphere.

Honors
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Rouge Mountain

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Qinghai, China

PSA (Photographic Society of America) Gold Medal — Hong Kong International Photography Salon. Top 4 of 1,379 entries (Top 0.29%)

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Iron Bloom

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Guilin, Guangxi, China

Iron Flowers folk art — molten iron struck skyward by hand, an amazing folk heritage still alive in Guangxi. Performers are dancer of fire!

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Galactic Dunes

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Zhongwei Desert, Ningxia, China

IPA Official Selection — International Photography Awards.

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Devil's Eye

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AIKEN Spring, Qinghai, China

IPA Official Selection — International Photography Awards.

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Sortie

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Zhuhai, guangdong, China

Zhuhai Airshow 2024, shot through a typhoon. Several frames requested by press journalists on site.

Methodology

Aesthetic foundation

Pre-composition

Post-processing

People & Stories

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Loom

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rural Guangxi, china

Zhuang brocade weaver at her loom. She speaks only Yao — we needed a village translator just to talk.

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Doorway

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rural Guangxi, china

Mother of a Zhuang weaver I worked with, 98 years old. Children running home at dusk — she watches from the same door every evening.

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Rainy Half

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guangzhou, guangdong, China

Playing left back in semifinal. It rained through most of three years on varsity — never a reason to stop.

Natural Treasures

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Earth's Heart

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Ningxia, China

"I know the world has a heartbeat" Ningxia's Wuhu (five lakes) zone in desert. Hours of off-road driving through sand to reach this salt formation — then the vehicle sank, and we waited for rescue.

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Jade Bloom

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Ge'er'mu, China

IPA Official Selection; Salt crystallization on Qinghai's Emerald Lake, seen from above. The mineral layers fold outward like petals — the dot near the center is a person.

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Ink Wash

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He'lan Mount, China

Helan Mountain, shot from inside the cloud line. The single road below was the only mark the frame would hold — everything else, fog and distance.

City & Light

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Thousand Years with Stars

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Chongqing, China

Hong'en Pavilion, Chongqing. One of my earliest works. Chongqing Memory Selected; Star trails composited over hours of exposure — the tower holds still while the sky turns.

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Road To Canton

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Guangzhou, guangdong, china

A road I once traveled to reach Guangzhou. This time I stayed on the bridge long enough to watch the light and cars move.

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Passage of Light

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Shenzhen, guangdong, china

Beneath Shenzhen Bay Bridge — columns repeating until they read like a maze, or a cage the seagulls never quite leave.

Andy Zeng | Growth, Photography, Language & Attention