Hi, I'm Evelyn, a design engineer based in Boston. I'm currently on the founding team at Daylit, leading frontend and design for AI agents in accounts receivable. Previously, I worked across computational design research, interactive WebGL storytelling, and award-winning IoT products. I'm intrigued by questions at the intersection of machine representation and biological process. More on that.
Work
Daylit
2021 – Present
VP of Design Engineering (Founding Team)
AI agents for accounts receivable: automating collections, resolving disputes, and predicting cash flow across a business's ERP and inbox, paired with financing. Since launch, clients have seen around 3x collections on high-risk accounts. We raised $110M in 2025.
Lendica
Before the rebrand we were Lendica, an embedded supply chain finance platform offering net terms, invoice financing, and working capital, distributed inside the vertical SaaS tools businesses already used. I shipped it from one monorepo as a standalone portal, an embedded experience inside partner tools, and a checkout flow. Those products are now Daylit's capital layer.
Babson College, Arthur M. Blank Center
2023 – 2024
Global Entrepreneur in Residence
Advised student founders on product-market fit, MVP design, and technical strategy. Judged campus venture competitions.
Harvard University
2020 – 2021
Design Technologist
Translated curatorial and artistic concepts into interactive 3D experiences for academic exhibitions, using WebGL and React.
Harvard Data Science Initiative
2019 – 2020
Research Assistant, Machine Learning
Built a structured visual-language corpus describing formal relationships in design compositions, and applied ML/NLP to predict descriptive terms for compositional patterns.
Gensler
2019
Computational Design & Augmented Reality Intern
Built an AR app for Android showcasing architecture projects with interactive 3D models. Contributed to algorithm-driven façade design and generative modeling tools.
Philips Lighting (Signify)
2014 – 2017
Product Designer
Designed smart lighting and IoT products end-to-end, from hardware and embedded UX through mass production. Products received multiple international design awards, including Red Dot and iF.
Education
Harvard Graduate School of Design
2020
Master in Design Studies (MDes), Technology
Cambridge, MA
Tongji University, College of Design and Innovation
2014
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng), Industrial Design
Shanghai, China
Research & experiments
I'm a firm believer that the human mind and biological processes are not as special as we take them to be. Our emotions, for instance, exist as conduits from stimulus to action. Can machine intelligence mirror those processes and be more efficient for it? Can it express itself to us the way we do to each other, through emotion and action? Can those same processes extend what it's capable of, into something like creativity? And can we look into a mind — artificial or natural — interpret what's happening there, and even take control?
Predicting the words people reach for when they describe a visual composition.
Any emoji, sampled into a field of particles that scatter under the cursor and spring back.
A system that paints a landscape, reads its mood, and writes its own criticism.
An environment whose weather shifts with your gaze and the rhythm of your motion.
A web tool to examine the edit history of Wikipedia and expose contested areas of knowledge.