Welcome to HengyuLab
What this site is, what it isn't, and why I'm building in public.
This is HengyuLab — a place to externalize what would otherwise stay buried in private notes, repos, and chat transcripts. Three things live here: products, writings, and a thin layer of identity. Everything else (CV, publications, teaching) stays at hengyuliu.com, where it belongs.
Why a separate site
A CV optimizes for legibility to committees. A lab optimizes for legibility to future me and to anyone trying to use what I've built. Those two readers want different things — one wants the finished artifact, the other wants the working edge. Splitting them lets each be honest.
What you'll find
- Products. Small Vibe-Coded research instruments. Most live somewhere on the spectrum between "personal tool" and "real product." I ship when the thing solves a problem I had that week.
- Writings. Field notes. Each one started as a Knowledge Object — a small, typed unit of externalized thought — that earned its way into a longer post. Less polished than papers, more rigorous than tweets.
- About. Who I am, what I'm working on, how to reach me.
What's not here
Academic publications, formal CV, teaching materials. Those are on my main site. I'm trying hard to keep this lab from collapsing into yet another personal homepage — there's enough of those.
More soon.