New York Tech Zine Fair
Meera Desai
Ziwei Gu
Lydia B. Chilton
The Variation Lab @ Harvard SEAS | The Variation Lab @ Harvard SEAS
BIO I am a human-AI interaction researcher, with a focus on creativity support tools and understanding the limits and problems of large language models. I'm currently a Postdoctoral Fellow with Elena Glassman at Harvard University. I recently completed my PhD at Columbia University with Lydia Chilton . I have been supported by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and the Brown Institue for Media Innovation .
I'm also a poet and essayist. I write about the ocean, our looming climate crisis, my nieces and nephews, sexuality, and the intersection and distinction of the arts and science. I'm working on a poetry manuscript called 'whalefall'. In 2020 I was named a Brooklyn Poets Fellow and was a 2020-2021 CultureHub Resident Contributing Writer . I was a Writer in Residence at the Vermont Studio Center in 2022. I'm currently on the editorial team for taper , a literary magazine for small computational pieces.
I used to build machines and sensors. I hold a Bachelors of Science in mechanical engineering from MIT, where I recieved the Carl G. Sontheimer Prize for Excellence in Innovation and Creativity for my work on soft robotics. I worked at two startups: Rest Devices (we built baby monitors) and Soofa (we built smart city furniture).
New York Tech Zine Fair
Meera Desai
Ziwei Gu
Lydia B. Chilton
The Variation Lab @ Harvard SEAS | The Variation Lab @ Harvard SEAS