Ben Peng
CS Master's Student
Rice University
Houston, TX · 2024–present
Software · Fashion · Photography
Software · Fashion · Photography
Hey, I'm Ben — currently a Master's student in Computer Science at Rice University.
I build software that solves real problems, but outside of that I'm deeply into fashion and photography. I love putting together outfits, sharing my style, and capturing visuals that tell a story.
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believe the best software disappears into the background. It solves the problem so cleanly that you forget you were even using a tool at all — the same way a great outfit feels like a second skin, not a costume.
“Build things that feel inevitable in hindsight.”
Photography taught me to see negative space as a design decision, not an absence. I carry that into every interface I build: the gap between two elements is as deliberate as the elements themselves.
These three disciplines — code, clothes, camera — collapse into the same question: what is essential, and what can go?