Ruoyun Chen is a director, editor, song writer, and a PhD candidate at Cornell University majoring in System Engineering.

Her academic work focuses on modeling how individual’s decisions interact to reach a system equilibrium, as well as understanding equity in mobility. These together form her interest in capturing and understanding the connections between individuals, especially in the current class-stratified society.

Ruoyun is also a director, song writer and singer. She directed several music videos for her own music and produced/ edited the the documentary feature “Saha World”. Her music video (director, song writer, singer) "May Snow" was selected in the Best Originality Category in Music Video Award 2021. The documentary feature "Saha World" was selected in Flicker's Rhodes Island International Film Festival semifinalist.

She directed her first short "Eve, Eve" is summer 2021, an anti-SciFi short film featuring humanoid maids in the setting of future.