Richard Yee is a product designer and creative technologist on Google's emoji team. He graduated Cooper Union with a BFA in 2018 and works on innovative projects that combine design, technology, and user experience. He is passionate about creating immersive and interactive experiences that push the boundaries of what is possible on the web. He has received design awards from Awwwards, Css Design Awards, and the Webbys, for his indie web apps. In 2022, he co-authored a research paper on full body motion capture with Google AI and demoed the new model at the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. He currently works with the MediaPipe team to help open source their motion capture models and make them accessible to developers and designers.