Occasionally accepting guests in Redwood City, CA
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CURRENT MISSION

Leverage my curiosity and energy to explore the world (outward) as well as my inner heart(inward).

ABOUT ME

I am currently a product manager at an AI startup based in Bay Area, California. I am a person with excessive energy and curiosity towards a lot of things in this world.

PHILOSOPHY

A believer in existentialism, enjoying the moment while making choices about life.
A 2x Burning Man participant. A vipassana meditation practitioner. A nature lover. A futuristic enthusiast.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I started my couchsurfing experience in 2017 and have both hosted and being a hostee at different regions! Through couchsurfing I met a lot of people in Cuba and it was one of the most amazing traveling experience I had. Also made many friends in Costa Rica, France, Mexico thorugh couchsuring there!

Interests

I have a natural curiosity towards everything in this world

I am in some way a biology geek as I have an obsession with plants and animals and have an unusual habit of raising peculiar pets ranging from the cutes ones like succulent plants and hamsters to more intolerable ones, mosquitoes and cockroaches. I spent a lot of time observing them and the tangible biological world, feeling excited and intoxicated.

• environmental studies
• data science
• philosphy
• product management

Music, Movies, and Books

Sci-fi movie fan
My favorites: Inception, Interstellar, Arrival, Star Trek

Fantasy novel fan
My favorites: Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, A Song of Ice and Fire (GOT!!!)

enjoy classic piano music

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I took a photo of a black bear on a mountain trail of Colorado. I was about ten steps away from this black bear and the moment after I took this photo, I stepped back quietly and hide behind a rock to maintain respect to its territory.

I built a mobile sensor to detect air pollution and share data with people in my city. I obtained crowd-sourcing data from citizens who use the smartphone-sensors I built and created the color-graded PM2.5 distribution graph of my city Changsha.

I also worked on the project “Map of Life” at Yale, which is an interactive map displaying all wildlife distribution data on earth and allow people to report sightings of wildlife.

Teach, Learn, Share

Wish to learn more about other cultures
I can definitely teach Chinese.
Love to share a passion on nature
Would also be happy to share my limited knowledge on various subjects...
Would love to talk with you about Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Berkeley (same with my name!), Hume and Kant!

What I Can Share with Hosts

I would love to bring some Chinese gadgets/pins/stickers and help you grow your collection of cultural objects!

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, China, Costa Rica, Cuba, France, Guatemala, Luxembourg, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Qatar, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, United States