Born and raised in Yantai, China, Alex is a designer based in Los Angeles. He graduated from Yale University (M.Arch ‘23), where he studied under Peter Eisenman, Frank O. Gehry, Alexander Garvin, and Anthony Vidler. He received his B.Sci in Architectural Studies, and a Minor in Urban Planning, from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2019 with Highest Honors. He practiced architecture with OMA (Rotterdam), Pentagram (New York), Morphosis, SOM (New York), and Gensler (San Diego), with projects built in Milan, Paris, New York, and Beijing. He was also a competitive player at Yale Table Tennis Club.