Zoe Qian

ABOUT

Hi, I’m Zoe.

A technical founder building emotionally intelligent AI.

I’m interested in how AI models represent emotion and express it through language, voice, and multimodal interaction. I explore these questions by building systems, reading research, and designing small experiments.

At the workbench

I’ve built a voice agent, a content agent for creating videos, and fine-tuned a small text-to-speech model. I’m also exploring new models and training a wake-word model.

What you’ll find here

Research is where I develop focused questions, connect the literature, and outline experiments others can reproduce. TIL is a broader notebook of practical lessons from building a company as a technical founder. Projects brings the systems themselves together.

Current questions

  • What should an emotion representation capture?
  • How can a small speech model express emotion with useful control?
  • How should language, voice, and visual context work together?
  • What would convincing evaluation look like?

Find me

You can find my public code and connect with me on GitHub ↗.