Rui Ma
strategy &
emerging
technology
translate · materialize
before they have a category.
selected systems
Most roles are built after a field has been named. I am most useful earlier: when the technology works, the frame is missing, and the next decision depends on making the system legible. Three systems, entered before the category was stable:
A live body reads as present; a replayed recording breaks. That's where ION begins.
A Wise Horse / ION ↗
A trust and integrity layer for systems that read from or act on the human body. It begins with live presence: distinguishing a living, coupled biological process from a detached sample or replay.
PulpaTronics ↗
Chipless RFID lasered directly onto paper: identification without silicon, built through product identity, prototypes, pitch architecture, and partner-facing narrative.
Embodied Signal Systems
The body as an interface: EDA, pulse, and EMG mapped into fluid, form, and sound, with emotion treated as a continuous field rather than a category.
read a system
One method underneath every project: four moves.Pick a system and watch it being read.
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about
Research-led design engineering: working from human, social, scientific, and technical investigation toward prototypes, interfaces, services, and system interventions that can be tested.
Five years of social philosophy and philosophy of mind: body, domination, identity, intelligence, consciousness, and technology. Training in how categories are built, how power hides inside language, and how systems decide what becomes legible.
Training in material, body, construction, surface, and identity, reading the body as a designed system before biological signals.
The through-line is not a discipline. It is the ability to enter complex systems before they are legible, find their structure, and make them usable.