Currently: COO @ Chibitronics.

Chibitronics is a hardware edtech startup that is on a mission to make technology as accessible, intuitive and creative as a set of crayons. Based on founder and CEO Jie Qi’s research on paper circuits at MIT Media Lab, Chibitronics creates award-winning educational toolkits that blend high-tech innovation with arts and crafts. We are empowering a new generation of artists, engineers, and creators by building technologies that reimagine paper as a medium for coding, engineering, and creative expression.

Previously, I was VP of Product Strategy in the Data & Decision Sciences group at Paramount, where I led the design and development of platforms that enabled data-driven decisions across all of Paramount’s portfolio brands.

I graduated from the Jerome Fisher Program in Management and Technology at the University of Pennsylvania with a joint B.S. in Computer Science and Economics. I completed my M.S. at MIT Media Lab, where I was advised by César Hidalgo as part of the Macro Connections group. My research focused on utilizing digital data to create visual engines for understanding social phenomena and informing decisions that affect innovation, business, and public policy.

Press: Billboard, NYTimes Magazine, Scientific American, MIT Tech Review, Fast Company, and flowingdata.

Recent Talks: SXSW, DSS 2018, Digital Transformation Summit @ HBS, Data Science Salon 2020 (virtual), LeadDev 2020 - Placing Engineering at the heart of innovation (virtual)