Creative technologist Yiting Liu has emerged as a voice in discussions around artificial intelligence’s role in creative workflows, speaking at venues including Florida Atlantic University and NYC Tech Connect, and serving as a mentor at MIT Reality Hack. Her framework—”AI as creative partner, not replacement”—stems from a decade-long intersection of enterprise technology work, classical music training, and independent creative practice, now applied to Vibes, her AI-powered music visualization platform that has been deployed at 8 venues including Sugar Mouse, Wonderville NYC, and Gallery MC for the QIAA Annual Red Carpet Gala.
Vibes homepage: www.gotvibes.app
On January 29, 2026, Liu delivered “From XR Technologist to AI Founder: Building at the Intersection” at Florida Atlantic University’s Art & Design Lecture Series. The presentation examined the technical and business challenges of developing AI tools for live music visualization, drawing on her experience deploying Vibes at multiple events throughout 2024-2025. Liu demonstrated how the platform reduces music video production from weeks to minutes through real-time AI-generated visualizations—a system informed by her Level 10 certification from the China Musicians’ Association and decade of classical piano training, which provides intuitive understanding of musical structure that purely technical developers often lack.
Vibes’ commercial trajectory has included deployments at music venues (Sugar Mouse, The Rat NYC, Async Bar), creative studios (Redline Studio), exhibition spaces (Wonderville NYC), and technical demonstrations at industry events including the XR Motion Conference at Navy Yard and Glimpse Group’s technology showcase. The platform’s appearance at Gallery MC for the QIAA (Qipao International Arts Association) Annual Red Carpet Gala on December 12, 2025, marked its expansion into formal performance contexts, where Liu executed live audio-reactive visualizations synchronized to the gala’s musical performances. This deployment pattern reflects Liu’s focus on securing B2B clients in the live entertainment and venue sectors—a business model targeting the gap between musicians’ demand for visual content and traditional production’s cost and timeline barriers.
Vibes displaying at Sugar Mouse NYC
Liu’s positioning as both developer and spokesperson stems from her technical background at the enterprise scale. At Sia Partners (February 2023-January 2025), she directed a 13-person global spatial computing team, leading large-scale XR deployments for Fortune 500 clients. Prior to that, she worked as creative technologist at Future Colossal (2021-2023), for Fortune 500 clients including Disney, ESPN, Citibank, and Comcast’s NBCUniversal Studio, implementing interactive installations that drew 90,000 attendees within four months. This combination—enterprise XR expertise meeting independent AI development—informs her public commentary on how generative tools scale from prototype to production deployment.
Yiting’s Smart Living 2 Installation at Accenture during her work at Future Colossal.
In 2024, Liu served as a mentor at MIT Reality Hack, working with teams developing AI and XR projects. This followed her 2022 Grand Prize win at the same competition for Lifelines AR, an augmented reality therapeutic tool. Her shift from competition participant to technical mentor represents a pattern of field recognition that has characterized her recent trajectory. At the event, she provided guidance on Unity development, XR implementation, and technical architecture—expertise drawn from both her enterprise work and Vibes development experience.
Yiting as MIT Reality Hack Mentor
Throughout 2024-2025, Liu addressed the distinction between automation and augmentation in creative AI tools at speaking engagements including NYC Tech Connect’s AI Unleashed event at Sugar Mouse. Her presentations argue that effective generative tools emerge from practitioners who understand both technical constraints and artistic intent, using Vibes as a case study: the platform’s approach differs from generic AI video generators by incorporating musical theory principles into its generation algorithms, allowing it to respond to compositional structure rather than just amplitude or frequency data.
At the 2024 Greenpoint Film Festival’s XR Motion program, Liu discussed spatial computing’s evolution from enterprise application to independent creative tool, drawing connections between her Fortune 500 XR work and current AI development. In her 2023 appearance on the AIGA Future of XR Design Panel, she presented this argument through examples from her technical projects, including AR work featured through Unity’s official channels and SixthSense, an AR simulation project.
Liu’s academic background reinforces this interdisciplinary approach. At NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, where she earned her MPS (2019-2021), she served as Coding Lab Manager (2020-2021), conducting 136 technical consultation sessions for graduate students. Her early ITP work “Authentic or Not,” an Arduino-based interactive installation developed during her first semester, attracted 3,000+ attendees at ITP’s 2019 Winter Show and was subsequently exhibited at Liberty Science Center’s E-Week 2020. Before graduate study, she completed degrees in Marketing and Film Production at University of Wisconsin-Madison, alongside a Digital Studies certificate.
Authentic of Not – installation shot
Beyond conference presentations, Liu has appeared on the XR Motion Podcast, which ranks #15 in Apple’s Visual Arts category, discussing career trajectories in spatial computing. She has also spoken at Girls Inc. at Park East High School, addressing students on technical careers in creative industries. She writes on creative technology and founder experience in her newsletter “Messy Truths,” examining the practical tensions between artistic vision, technical implementation, and business development.
As Vibes continues deployments and Liu pursues B2B partnerships with venues and event producers, her public speaking has increasingly focused on the business challenges of AI development—not just the technical architecture. Her central argument remains consistent across venues: generative AI tools work best when built by practitioners who understand both the technical systems and the creative domains they serve, a principle she applies in Vibes’ development as she targets the intersection of live music performance and real-time visual generation.
Yiting’s LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/yitingliu97/
Wonderville NYC https://www.instagram.com/p/DQc3wQlDLTg/
Navy Yard for XR Motion Conference Demo – https://www.instagram.com/p/DQZglaYDalu/
Vibes Summer Night Festival
SugarMouse: https://www.instagram.com/p/DMLHDO9gnkP/
Wonderville NYC: https://www.instagram.com/p/DOtuFwcCMWT/
AsyncBar: https://www.instagram.com/p/DOwZ2Dikoft/
The Rat NYC: https://www.instagram.com/p/DP1l05jFJwD/
The Rat NYC – Vibes Music Jam in October:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DPxGpzaCE33/?img_index=1
Glimpse Group – Vibes Demo
https://www.meetup.com/nyvr-virtual-reality-nyc/events/305477557/?eventOrigin=group_past_events
QIAA Gala at Gallery MC: https://www.instagram.com/p/DXaJi37Catm/
QIAA poster: https://www.instagram.com/p/DR0hRU_kvYO/
Redline Studio for Fashion Tech Mixer: Yiting’s Interview on Vibes https://www.instagram.com/p/DVL2SlAEWzY/
IG recap post:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DGQrXw_oPYu/?img_index=1
Recap for the panel I was on: https://www.instagram.com/p/C_xhWp9umdm/
Podcast I was on after the greenpoint Film Festival on AI https://www.instagram.com/p/DCYSCVxNf4N/
