Kent Cao

Cao’s research lies at the intersection of art, archaeology, technology, and epigraphy of early China. His current book manuscript examines how Yangtze societies from the 14th to 9th centuries BCE assimilated foreign artistic traditions and developed their own bronze practices, contributing to models of transregional transmission of ideas and technologies in complex societies.

Cao collaborates with colleagues in physics, engineering, computer science, and media art to advance interdisciplinary digital humanities. He served as Co-PI of Pilgrimage to Pureland: Art, Perception, and the Wutai Mural VR Reconstruction and participated in the Ancient Art and Higgs Boson project at Princeton University. His current projects include computational modeling for artifact reconstruction and simulations examining the relationships between object form, metallic strength, and alloy composition in ancient bronzes.

He holds a Ph.D. in East Asian Art and Archaeology from Princeton University, an M.St. in Archaeology from the University of Oxford, and he read Archaeology and Anthropology at University College London and the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has received support from the Smithsonian Institution, Henry Luce Foundation, Getty Research Institute, and American Council of Learned Societies. His latest papers have appeared in Artibus Asiae and the International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction.

曹业宬的研究专攻中国早期美术、考古、技术与铭文的交叉领域。他当前的书稿探讨公元前14至9世纪长江流域社会如何同化外来艺术传统并发展自身青铜器制作技艺，为复杂社会中跨区域思想与技术传播模式提供了新视角。

曹业宬积极与物理学、工程学、计算机科学及媒体艺术领域的同事合作，推动跨学科数字人文研究。他曾担任“净土朝圣：艺术、感知与五台壁画虚拟现实重建”项目的联合首席研究员，并参与普林斯顿大学的“古代艺术与希格斯玻色子”项目。其当前研究项目包括文物重建的计算建模以及古代青铜器造型、金属强度与合金成分关系的计算机模拟实验。

曹业宬于普林斯顿大学获得东亚美术史与考古学博士学位，牛津大学考古学硕士，并曾就读于伦敦大学学院及伦敦政治经济学院的考古与人类学专业。其最新研究成果发表于一流期刊《亚洲艺术》（Artibus Asiae）及《国际人机交互期刊》（International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction），并获得斯密森学会、亨利·卢斯基金会、盖蒂研究所及美国学术理事会的研究资助。