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Education
Wellesley College
Bachelor of Arts majoring in Media Arts and Sciences (an inter-disciplinary degree in the fields of Computer Science and Fine Arts), concentrating on Media Sciences, with a minor in English. Current cumulative GPA: 3.62
Expected Graduation: May, 2017
Work Experience
Lead UI/UX designer for a a tangible map project, figuring out new ways to interact with the MIT campus in a 3D printed format and show related metadata for the campus.
-Working with software engineers to solve design challenges
-Creating data visualizations and interfaces for a novel map paradigm
-This project will be showcased in the new MIT Atlas center early this coming year
MIT Media Lab
Undergraduate Researcher: Mobile Experience Lab
September 2016-Present
IBM Research
Design and Marketing Intern
May 2016-August 2016
Summer intern in charge of design and marketing projects in the THINKLab at IBM Research headquarters. Responsibilities include updating the design for the internal THINKLab website, writing and curating images for the THINKLab internal blog, assisting in client engagements and design thinking workshops, and directing and producing a series of internal videos.
Researcher for the Fluid Interfaces group in the MIT Media Lab. Designing user interfaces to interact with smarter objects — physical objects whose behaviors are programmable. Studying stylistic tools in augmented reality application (Reality Editor) to apply to user interfaces. (http://openhybrid.org/)
Publications:
CHI EA '16 Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Pages 4-4, ACM New York, NY, USA ©2016. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2889431
Awards Associated with Reality Editor:
Fast Company’s Boldest Ideas in User Interface Design 2015
Postscapes 2016 Editors Choice Award for IoT Software & Tools.
MIT Media Lab
Undergraduate Researcher: Fluid Interfaces Group
February 2015-May 2016
Psychiatric Research Assistant and Editor
César A. Alfonso, M.D. Assoc. Professor of Psychiatry Columbia University Medical Center
Summer 2014
Assisted in researching and editing textbook chapters for the Comprehensive Textbook of AIDS Psychiatry, to be published by Oxford University Press in the coming year. Required extensive medical research and analysis, proofreading, writing and editing chapter drafts, and writing article summaries.
Brooklyn Museum of Art
Curatorial Research Assistant, European and Spanish Colonial Art
Summer 2014
Researched and collected historical data from resources – in both Spanish and English - for use in summary descriptions of paintings for an upcoming exhibition of the works of Puerto Rican painter Francisco Oller.