Sha Xin Wei PhD is Professor at the School of Arts, Media + Engineering and the School of Complex Adaptive Systems, and directs the Synthesis Atelier for transversal art, philosophy and technology in the Global Futures Lab at Arizona State University. He established and directed the pioneering transdisciplinary Topological Media Lab for gesture, media and responsive environments, which he transplanted to Montreal as Canada Research Chair in media arts and sciences. He is a professor at the European Graduate School, and Senior Fellow of Building21 at McGill University.

Sha's core research concerns a topological approach to poiesis, play and process. His art and scholarly work range from gestural media, movement arts, and realtime media installation through experiential design to critical studies and philosophy of technology. Sha has published in philosophy, media arts and sciences, experimental music and performance, science and technology studies, computer science, and human computer interaction, including the book Poiesis and Enchantment in Topological Matter (MIT). He is an associate editor for AI & Society, and serves on the Governing Board of Leonardo International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology.