I'm Owen Teng, working across HR leadership, product building and organizational learning—exploring how people and agents work together, and how experience becomes reusable capability.
简体中文 · Website · Robinson AI Lab
Work, with companions. Rooms, animation and six assistants make everyday collaboration with AI more approachable. The Windows mail preview brings organizing work, editable replies and follow-through into a public showcase with private source; more workflows unlock progressively.
Enter Companest → · Watch the six-companion greeting
Enter the mail room from the little world, open a real matter, review its context and suggestions, edit the reply, and save the draft locally.
This 30-second recording keeps the real mouse clicks, character animation, interface transitions and save feedback. Names, company references and sender/recipient addresses are mosaicked.
Edited real desktop footage with gaps shortened. Suggestions were generated during preparation; the clip reopens them and does not demonstrate first-generation speed. The draft was saved locally; no email was sent. The Chinese interface still shows Friday branding.
From shared delivery to capability an organization can reuse. My research explores how human judgment and agent execution work around shared outcomes, then uses operating evidence to examine changes in roles, authority and incentives. The 37-page paper presents hypotheses that remain to be tested in real operation.
Read the paper → · Core hypotheses · Role example
Give knowledge a structure your AI can work with. I proposed the Six-Brain Method and developed it with Robinson AI Lab into an open-source personal knowledge management project: a local Markdown blueprint, an Obsidian example vault and bilingual guides. Maintained by Robinson AI Lab.
Explore FridayOS 1.0 → · The Six-Brain Method · Get started
Other open-source exploration: frago — an agent automation toolkit forked from tsaijamey/frago.
Bringing gamification into management
Forbes China · 2023 — Management, gamification and industry collaboration. In Chinese.
Designing an AI-HR strategy in the generative AI era
InfoQ · 2024 — Adapted from my DTDS talk. In Chinese.
When the organization learns
Research note — How personal experience becomes knowledge another person can use.
HR Director at Neusoft Smartgo since March 2025; previously Head of Neusoft's Shanghai Branch of Group HR. Co-founder of Robinson AI Lab.
MS in Marketing, Johns Hopkins University (2017). Selected for Forbes China's 2022 list of 100 Outstanding Young Overseas Returnees, Growth Potential category.
More about my practice and research
- AI × HR. Led Neusoft's Apollo Innovation Lab, 2023–2025, bringing digital employees and workflow automation into practice and developing the team's product capabilities.
- Products & learning. Waffle Product Incubation Lead at Shanghai Xuanxiao Technology, 2023–2025; connecting enterprise learning needs, game mechanics, interaction design, development, and client delivery.
- Community. Founded AGSC under the Shanghai Multimedia Industry Association; served as Director and Chair during 2019–2025 and led the second through fifth GCA conferences.
- Open questions. What evidence justifies changing a role? Can another person use a method independently? How can spaces, roles, and feedback make human–agent collaboration easier to understand?
Counterexamples and attempts that did not work are welcome. Join the research discussion →