NYU Tisch 2018-2020
Lehigh University 2010-2014
full-time
Beam Center 2021-12 to 2022-06 Taught a semester on creative textile work to 50 high schoolers on embroidery using hand and machine techniques. topics: teaching, sewing, textiles, steam cmd+f: teaching, sewing, textiles, embroidery, driving, tutoring
Cityblock Health 2021-03 to 2021-12 Developed and architected automated payer data ingestion pipelines, focusing on testability and visually communicating with non-engineering teams. topics: healthcare, data-engineering cmd+f: airflow, beam, bigquery, dataflow, google cloud function, google cloud, kubernetes, node, postgres, pubsub, python, s3, scala, scio, sql, tdd, terraform
Politics Rewired 2020-09 to 2021-03 Designed and implemented data warehousing architecture and client metadata lookup API. Automated customer billing calculation reports. Product development and unit-testing framework for SQL-as-Programming-Language based data management product. Significant refactoring from untested, untyped, terminal-driven to tested, typed, and monitored-batched-based workflows. topics: sms, product-development cmd+f: apollo, graphql, typescript, plpgsql, postgres, sql, bigquery, python, kubernetes, google cloud, ux
Foursquare 2017-05 to 2018-07 Worked on Pilgrim SDK, an enterprise product for developers to translate raw mobile location data into event-based timelines of duration "visits" to venues, defined by Foursquare's user-cultivated venue database. Concentration on internal-facing visualization-based research tools for reviewing effects of model training. topics: machine-learning, tech-industry cmd+f: scala, machine-learning, d3, data-visualization, frontend, data-engineering, scalding, spark, hive
Dotdash 2015-10 to 2017-05 Worked in close collaboration with editorial team to develop NLP-based content management systems, SEO focused idea generation web tools, and integration of automated topic-based article recommendation system. cmd+f: NLP, frontend, backend, react, elm, flask, python, aws, emr, lambda, kafka, elasticsearch, solr, pandas, vue
Saucon Technologies 2014-05 to 2015-10 Designing and implementing analytical and computer vision applications for embedded devices to be used in varied public transit environments. cmd+f: c++, java, opencv, openframeworks, computer-vision
part-time
NYU Office of Sustainability 2019-02 to 2019-08 Assisted "Teardown" workshop/lecture/research series as "Freestore Steward" by Regina Cantu and Jasmine Soltani. Focused on sociological inquiry around design department's "free shelf" fabrication resource. http://luminghao.com/blog/#freestore cmd+f: accessibility, design, fabrication
Aliza Shvarts 2018-11 to 2020-02 Frontend, API, OpenGL, and email automation for 4th and 5th installment of "How does it feel to be a fiction?", "Player", and "Relational Clocks". Installed at Art In General NYC, FUTURA Prague, and 6th Athens Biennale. cmd+f: rust, c++, google-analytics, sendgrid, digital-ocean
NYU Courant 2018-09 to 2019-01 Designed assignments and tutored for "Special Topics: Applied Internet Technology" an undergraduate senior level course on javascript-based full-stack web development cmd+f: teaching, javascript, mongodb, frontend, data-analysis
NYU Moses Center 2018-09 to 2019-01 Assisted blind product-design student with fabrication, programming, and CAD classwork tasks. cmd+f: accessibility, design, fabrication
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NYU ITP Thesis 2020 Thesis project for my masters at NYU ITP in 2020 https://loserio.cloud A pianos-as-a-service REST API and research project towards a theory of technology centered on maintenance. topics: maintenance, digital-studies, abstraction, media-theory, sts cmd+f: digital-ocean, express, node, ngnix, mongodb, raspberry-pi, python, next.js, react
NYU ITP Spring Show 2019 2019 Agitation of the divide between signal and energy, difference and summation. Created in collaboration with Aileen Stanziola. BJT transistor-based 1-bit adder circuit with photovoltaic control interface on a mound of soil. Custom pcb for excess power banking and solar "necklaces" designed and fabricated for this project. topics: information, difference, electronics, materiality, digital-studies, abstraction, media-theory cmd+f: installation, media-art, solar, pcb
NYU ITP 2018 Conceptual electronic discrete component for adding long-term (erosion-based) timing signals to digital circuits. topics: electronics, materiality, decay, abstraction, media-theory cmd+f: sculpture, electronics
NYC Media Lab 2019 "Access to Places", an offline-first subway station interior navigation guide for blind riders. Semester-long product development culminating in presentation in NYC Media Lab Showcase event at Brooklyn Navy Yards. topics: accessibility, transit cmd+f: ux, react-native, user-research
Microsoft Research 2019 Continued development of "Access to Places" project (offline-first subway station interior navigation guide for blind riders) initiated with Havas. Grant program focused on user-experience design aspects of app. topics: accessibility, transit cmd+f: ux, react-native, user-research
Landesakademie Ochsenhausen 2015 One of six selected composers to participate in 14-day onsite development workshop. Developed three-movement piece for piano and cello. topics: ppp cmd+f: composition
NYU Tech for Social Good Day 2020 Collaboration with Hannah Tardie. Hands-on workshop of various desoldering methods combined with lecture on e-waste orientated from the perspective that e-waste exists at the creation of electronics, not just their disposal. http://luminghao.com/2020-02-03-relevanceoftrash/ topics: e-waste, discard-studies, electronics, media-theory, philosophy-of-technology, sts
NYU ITP 2020 Lecture/video on process and themes of loser.io project. http://luminghao.com/2020-05-07-itpthesis-pres/ topics: philosophy-of-technology, piano-tuning, sts, maintenance, sound, digitality, e-waste, discard-studies, media-theory
The Computer Mouse Conference 2019 Presentation of preliminary research advocating for a recognition of "calibration labor", i.e. the work of adjustment, alignment, normalization, translation, and normalization that undergirds all claims of automation. http://luminghao.com/calibrationlabor/ topics: sts, labor, media-theory, philosophy-of-technology
Simple Show 2018 Presentation of trends and observations made on tour of 9 malls of the PA/MI/IL at The Simple Show, a live-comedy show featuring one non-comedic "expert" per evening. topics: retail, americana
NYU ITP Thesis 2020 loser.io is a rhetorical company marketing API access to pianos as service. At the core of this project is loser.io's "engineering blog" where theoretical writings based on research done was presented under the guise of "specifying the stack" of loser.io. https://medium.com/loser-io-engineering-blog topics: philosophy-of-technology, piano-tuning, sts, maintenance, sound, digitality, e-waste, discard-studies, media-theory
Adjacent Magazine 2019 The majority of bleeding-edge entertainment technologies can be traced to institutions of ideological sovereignty with the capital to develop them, however in this article, I discuss a selected number of cases where private-sector entertainment technologies matured prior to appropriation for military and religious uses. https://itp.nyu.edu/adjacent/issue-5/be-all/ topics: media-theory, simulation
DSNY Oral History Archive 2019 Under the direction of Robin Nagle, Anthropologist in Residence at the New York City Department of Sanitation, I was fortunate enough to conduct an interview with Christine Datz-Romero, co-founder of the Lower East Side Ecology Center, focused on the origins of their Gowanus E-waste Warehouse. Publication awaiting site-redesign. http://www.dsnyoralhistoryarchive.org/ topics: e-waste, discard-studies, oral-history