"How do I read/write your name?"

sheng: Non-rhotic "shern"; followed by qi: "chee" (like in "cheek", or "ち" if you know Japanese) -- would be good enough an approximation of my given name, sheng-qi.
If you'd prefer even more precision, the IPA would look something like /ʈ͡ʂú ʂəŋ̂ t͡ɕʰǐ/.

(Footnote: "g" is silent, and serves as the marker of nasalized "n", just like "ng" in "ring". The qi sound is also written as ch'i under Wade-Giles.)

It is written as 朱 晟祺 (last name first).

Life outside of work

Most of the time I stay at home in a less busy corner of Ithaca, and (try to) relax in the serenity a bit. In my leisure time I (unfortunately) still spend much time with computers and screens, and you might find me happily wasting an entire afternoon on these things:

• I have spent a significant amount of my relax hours playing games!
  • PC: Here are some wonderful games I've been playing recently:
    • Baldur's Gate 3
      • yes, the 4 of us from 3 time zones, after 2 full years, still haven't finished our 1st run 😭
      • We finally completed our first run! (Thanks for your sacrifice, Karlach🫡)
    • Star★Vaders
    • Hades 2
    • Silksong (didn't meet expectation though icl...)
    • AI LIMIT 无限机兵
    • Demonic Mahjong 我在地府打麻将 (best deckbuilding rogue-like lately!)
  • Gacha: Much of my time and passion is given to Arknights, Zenless Zone Zero, and (previously) Project Sekai :D
• I enjoy customizing my keyboards, and it's really fun to play with key caps and hot-swappables. Here are some photos of my current keyboards!
  
• I play clarinet. It's a hobby that I picked up again in Ithaca, after playing it for 5+ years as a kid and then putting it aside after middle school.
• I have worked on the (informal) translation and localization for fellow linguistic learners and students. Most recently, I am also seeking to become a Wikipedia contributor, focusing on the localization of English entries to Chinese.
• Kayaking has been one of the major hobbies that supported my well-being back in Seattle, although Ithaca does not have as much to offer :(

About my website

• This website originated from a static instance of the academic-homepage template (i.e., edits are directly made on the generated HTML/CSS/JS source code after Jekyll building the original site), with lots of customization incorporated to fit my own vibes. If you would like to use it as reference/source code, you are welcome to (source code)! Just be aware that the editing could potentially be more tedious, as you no longer edit through Jekyll now.
• The "profile picture" is a lovely miniature of Azusawa Kohane from Project Sekai. (So cute!)
• The color theme of the site features #7799CC and #7777AA, the character color of Togawa Sakiko and Shiina Taki from BanG Dream! Girls Band Party.