Yuan-Yi Fan studied computer music, media art, and multimedia engineering in Media Arts & Technology at University of California Santa Barbara, where he received his PhD under supervision of Curtis Roads. He designed and developed interactive, intelligent, and immerisve objects and experiences at startups, ventures, advanced design studio, immersive production studio, and corporate research center in Los Angeles. Before UCSB, he built MEMS ultrasound array transducers in Taiwan.

His works have been presented and exhibited at festivals, museums, and conferences, including ACM Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), ACM Multimedia (MM), ACM User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH), International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), International Community for Auditory Display (ICAD), Audio Engineering Society (AES), Leonardo, Leonardo Music Journal, WOCMAT/IRCAM Forum (International Workshop on Computer Music and Audio Technology), The 1st L.A.S.T. (Life, Art, Science, and Technology) Festival, International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA), IEEE VIS Arts Program, Currents New Media Festival, ZERO1 Biennial, New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival (NYCEMF), Dongdaemon Design Plaza (DDP), and ZKM Globale: inSONIC. He has also servered as a reviewer for notable conferences, including ACM SIGGRAPH Art Gallery.