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Hi there. I’m Youwen. I study math and computer science at UCSB. Currently I am a visiting student at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, in the department of Computer Science and Technology.

I’m a member of the MIT OpenCompute Laboratory and benevolent dictator at functor.systems.

Here is my GitHub, university transcript, CV/resume, and a picture of my cats.

I am interested in the nPOV and how we can apply higher structures to solve hard problems. In general, I prefer to use free-as-in-freedom software. I developed functorOS, an experimental NixOS-based Linux distribution—among other free software contributions.

I like hacking, and hackathons. I helped organize this year’s SB Hacks, the headliner hackathon of UC Santa Barbara, and I’m now its Director of Development.

In my spare time, I play guitar and spend too much money on guitar pedals. I listen to a lot of music.

See about for more about myself, or now for what I’m up to right now. Or explore the other pages on this website.

Discovery is a child’s privilege. I mean the small child, the child who is not afraid to be wrong, to look silly, to not be serious, and to act differently from everyone else. He is also not afraid that the things he is interested in are in bad taste or turn out to be different from his expectations, from what they should be, or rather he is not afraid of what they actually are. He ignores the silent and flawless consensus that is part of the air we breathe—the consensus of all the people who are, or are reputed to be, reasonable.
— Alexander Grothendieck