He studied Computer Engineering and Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong and at Goldsmiths College in London. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institut de Recherche et d’Innovation of Centre Pompidou and is currently postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Digital Cultures of Leuphana University of Lüneburg. Hui publishes internationally on philosophy of technics and media, in periodicals such as Metaphilosophy, Cahiers Simondon, Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft, etc. He is author of On the Existence of Digital Objects (University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming).