KeYi Huang is a Gen Z Chinese-born, LA based oil painter and automation bot developer whose work explores how AI can inspire emotional expression in human creativity.

Raised by a bio-chemical engineer father and an amateur painter mother, KeYi found early comfort in art therapy classes, where she first experienced the healing power of creativity. That formative experience shaped her approach to both technology and painting—not as endpoints, but as tools to make space for more intentional, emotionally resonant work.

From enterprise automation to founding her art studio, Kyi Atelier, KeYi’s journey has followed a consistent thread: using AI to support human expression, not replace it. At Dell, she led robotic process automation (RPA) and machine learning initiatives on the enterprise post-sales strategy team, building tools that streamlined workflows and gave people more time to focus on what mattered most. The heart of her work was always about empathy—mapping friction points and designing systems that helped others feel seen and supported.

When she later founded Kyi Atelier, that mission evolved into a creative practice she calls High-Touch Human-AI Collaborative Art—a method of working with AI not to replace artistic intuition, but to challenge and inspire it. Her oil paintings—often translated into limited-edition silk prints—explore memory, distortion, and the emotional terrain of co-creation.

KeYi holds both a Bachelor’s degree in Business Enterprise Management and a Master’s degree in Business Analytics from Wake Forest University, and is proud to be a Double Deacon.

Her work has been featured at New York Fashion Week, in a commercial installation at 40 Wall Street, and on Artsy, where her original paintings were represented by a New York–based gallery. Most recently, her silk fashion line was selected by The Canvas, a United Nations–backed concept store and incubator in SoHo, New York City, as part of a curated collection celebrating sustainability, storytelling, and cross-disciplinary creativity.