San Jose, California, United States
Portfolio: mimilei.com --- Looking to harness HCI, creativity, and new technologies to reimagine modern life in the face of climate change and systemic upheaval. Passionate about public health, sustainability, and storytelling.
Cognitive Infrastructures Studio
Teams - Google Labs: Applied machine learning, computer vision - Project Starline: Rapid prototyping, ML/CV - Google Health: Fullstack engineering (health insurance for Google Search, Google Maps) - Next Billion Users (Files by Google): Mobile app dev, computer vision - YouTube Video Ads: Mobile app dev I get my kicks doing user and interaction research on the side, and leading an internal interest group on computing for interspecies technology.
Working with David Sun Kong at the Community Biotechnology Initiative (https://www.media.mit.edu/groups/community-bio/overview/). Fall 2021 TA for MAS.S68: Ancient Future Technology: Coordinated course logistics, helped review student projects and assignments, created and managed class blog, designed visual assets and course site (https://www.ancientfuturetech.org/).
First author of paper: Patterns and Opportunities for the Design of Human-Plant Interaction (https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3532106.3533555) Worked with: http://morphingmatter.cs.cmu.edu/