People

Stacey Kuznetsov is an Assistant Professor at the School of Arts, Media, and Engineering, with a joint appointment at the School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering (CIDSE). Her research examines low-cost tools and hands-on making for citizen science, community activism, and (DIY)biology

Alejandra Rodriguez Vega is a PhD student at the School of Arts, Media, and Engineering at Arizona State University. Her research focuses on design fiction, storytelling, and rapid prototyping to scaffold community participation in envisioning and designing futures.

Assegid Kidane (Ozzie) is an engineer at the School of Arts, Media, and Engineering at Arizona State University. His work focuses on distributed sensing and rapid prototyping of digital technologies.

Recent PhD Graduates

Piyum Fernando is a PhD graduate from the School of Arts, Media, and Engineering at Arizona State University. His dissertation applied human computer interaction methods to support open design and public participation in science. He is currently a design technologist at Amazon and a co-founder and research lead of XD Studio, an experience design consultancy.

Jennifer Weiler is a PhD graduate from the School of Arts, Media, and Engineering at Arizona State University. Her dissertation explored the the intersection of media art and human-centered design to develop new fabrication methods for crafting with hybrid physical-digital materials. She is currently an Associate Faculty at ASU, and her courses cover interactive sculpture and programming for media arts.

External collaborators

Elenore Long is an Associate Professor at the Department of English at Arizona State University.

Mary Hood is an Associate Professor at the School of Art at Arizona State University.

Carl DiSalvo is an Associate Professor in the Digital Media program in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Past collaborators

Emily Ritter is an MFA student at the School of Art at Arizona State University. She develops new printmaking methods to initiate dialogue around ecological issues, with activist print traditions as inspiration. Within our group, Emily’s work experiments with new screenprinting materials and methods for tangible interaction.

Tina Santana is a senior-level PhD candidate in rhetoric, composition, and linguistics at the Department of English at ASU.  Her research examines community practices and scholarship, with a particular focus on knowledge and expertise transfer between practitioners. Within our group, Tina is leading a range of food science research efforts focusing on habitual sustainability and community literacy.

Matthew Pandelakis is studying Molecular Biosciences and Biotechnology at Barrett Honors College. He is leading several DIYbio projects within our group and is our go-to biotech expert.

Yue Liu is a Ph.D. student in Media Arts and Sciences at the School of Art, Media and Engineering at Arizona State University. Her work focuses on Human-Computer Interaction, the interaction between art and technology. Her current project examines screenprinting as a technique for prototyping musical instruments and embedding interactive sound into soft materials.