Michelle Chang

PhD Researcher, SWE | Ex-Google, 2025 NSF GRFP

San Jose, California, United States

About

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.

Experience

  • PhD Researcher at The Electric Plant Co
    May 2026 - Present · 2 mos

  • Senior Affiliate Researcher at Antikythera
    Jun 2024 - Jul 2024 · 2 mos

    Cognitive Infrastructures Studio

  • Google (6 yrs 1 mo)
    • Software Engineer
      Sep 2018 - Sep 2023 · 5 yrs 1 mo

      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.

    • Engineering Resident
      Sep 2017 - Sep 2018 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Research Affiliate at MIT Media Lab
    Jul 2021 - Feb 2022 · 8 mos

    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/).

  • Research Intern at Carnegie Mellon University
    Jan 2021 - Sep 2021 · 9 mos

    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/