Software Engineer

Yukun Dai is a Software Engineer affiliated with the ETH groups “Professorship for Learning and Instruction” and “Social Brain Science”. He joined Prof. Dr. Martina Rau’s group in May 2024.

Yukun earned his master’s degree in computational science and engineering from ETH Zürich in 2021. Following that, he went to industry and worked as an AR developer for two different companies. In 2023, he returned to ETH Zürich as a Research Engineer at the ETH Game Technology Center and subsequently transitioned to the Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (D-GESS) as a Software Engineer in 2024.

His primary responsibilities involve handling complex programming and software development tasks required by the research groups. Yukun’s major focus is on research and development of Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR), which assist in evaluating research topics within the lab. Additionally, his job includes full-stack development, software and hardware management, and conducting user studies.”