Curriculum Vitae

Education
2012 to present		MIT MEDIA LAB, Cambridge, MA – High-Low Tech Group Candidate for Ph.D. in Media Arts and Sciences
2010 to 2012		MIT MEDIA LAB, Cambridge, MA – High-Low Tech Group Master of Media Arts and Sciences
2006 to 2010		COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, New York, NY – School of Engineering & Applied Science Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering

Selected Talks & Exhibitions

2012		ENTERTAINMENT GATHERING, Monterey Conference Center, Monterey, CA Exhibited Pu Gong Ying Tu (Dandelion Painting) SAY SOMETHING POSTER SHOW, Fourth Wall Gallery, Boston, MA and Think Tank Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Guest exhibition of interactive electronic posters ITP AT NEW YORK UNIVERSITY New York, NY Guest lecture on paper and tape-based circuit building FULLER CRAFT MUSEUM, Brockton, MA Electronic origami pieces featured in Mens et Manus: Folded paper of MIT
2011		PECHA KUCHA BOSTON, Oberon, Cambridge, MA Six-minute presentation on paper-based circuits SKETCHING IN HARDWARE, Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, PA Presentation on research in paper-based electronics and shape memory metal actuation ENTERTAINMENT GATHERING, Monterey Conference Center, Monterey, CA Invited talk on paper-based electronic artworks PARSONS THE NEW SCHOOL FOR DESIGN, New York, NY Guest lecture on soft circuits, paper-based electronics and shape memory alloys
2010		WORLD MAKER FAIRE, New York Hall of Science, New York, NY Taught and presented painted circuits workshops as part of High-Low Tech’s exhibit DORKBOT NEW YORK, Location One, New York, NY Invited talk on Electronic Popables book WE LOVE TECHNOLOGY, Lovebytes, Sheffield, UK Video presentation on Electronic Popables book
2009		GRACE HOPPER CELEBRATION OF WOMEN IN COMPUTING, Tucson, AZ Invited panelist on the importance of undergraduate research ARS ELECTRONICA, Linz, Austria Electronic Popables featured as part of the MIT Media Lab exhibit BAY AREA MAKER FAIRE, San Mateo, CA Presented the littleBits project
2008		AROUND THE COYOTE FALL ART FESTIVAL, Plumbers Hall, Chicago, IL Juried group exhibition; selected for Curator’s Choice Award CREATIVE CARTOGRAPHIES, Brooklyn Arts Council, Brooklyn, NY Juried group exhibition featuring DNA collages CALCULATING ART: MATHEMATICS IN THE VISUAL FIELD, Maloney Art Gallery, Morristown, NJ Juried group exhibition featuring pattern and fractal collages

Research & Design Experience
2010 to present		PAPER BASED ELECTRONICS FOR CREATIVE EXPRESSION High-Low Tech group at the MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA advisor Dr. Leah Buechley Investigate techniques for integrating circuits and programming with paper in order to create expressive and personally meaning technologies. Teach workshops and classes to share and test techniques.
2008 to 2010		littleBits Eyebeam Art + Technology Center, New York, NY artist Ayah Bdeir Produced and maintained electronic and computational artworks. Designed and fabricated electronic circuits for littleBits, an open source modular electronics project.
2009		INDEPENDENT STUDY IN MICROFLUIDICS ARTWORK Lab for Microscale Transport Phenomena at Columbia University, New York, NY advisor Dr. Daniel Attinger Created microscale artworks using photolithography and casting microfluidic channels DISTRIBUTED RESEARCH EXPERIENCE FOR UNDERGRADUATES High-Low Tech group at MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA advisor Dr. Leah Buechley Designed and fabricated Electronic Popables, an electronic pop-up book of paper-based sensors and actuators
2008		SCULPTURE STUDIO INTERNSHIP Lumenhouse Studio, Brooklyn, NY artist Aurora Robson Fabricated and assembled sculptural installations from recycled plastic INDEPENDENT STUDY & SUMMER UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP Microscale Biocomplexities Lab at Columbia University, New York, NY advisor Dr. Lance Kam Cell signaling research using wet lab techniques. Performed microcontact printing, slide preparation, cell culture, fluorescence microscopy and data analysis

Teaching Experience
2012		SANTA FE INSTITUTE, Santa Fe, NM Guest lecture and workshop for GUTS (Growing Up Thinking Scientifically) y Girls program EXPLORATORIUM, San Francisco, CA Artist in residence BMW GUGGENHEIM LAB, Berlin, Germany Designed and taught workshops on paper electronics, reverse engineering and programming 3RD WARD, Brooklyn, NY Co-teaching workshop: electronic pop-ups RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN, Providence, RI Wintersession course: Beginner electronics through paper-based circuits MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Cambridge, MA IAP Course:  Paper-based electronics for creative expression
2011		RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN, Providence, RI Guest workshop for Form + Communication class: Paper-based electronic pop-ups GRACE HOPPER CELEBRATION OF WOMEN IN COMPUTING, Portland, OR Co-taught workshop: Expressive electronics for computer scientists: introduction to e-textiles HAYSTACK MOUNTAIN SCHOOL OF CRAFT, Deer Isle, ME Teaching assistant: Interactive objects in Wood class CESARE POLLINI CONSERVATORY & IUAV UNIVERSITY OF VENICE, Padova, Italy Co-taught workshop: Sounding Popables workshop in paper-driven sonic narrative MIT MUSEUM, Cambridge, MA Co-taught workshop for the Cambridge Science Festival: Electric origami flapping cranes
2010		COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, Electrical Engineering Department, New York, NY Teaching assistant and lab assistant: E1101 Digital Information Age

Publications
2012		Qi, J. and Buechley, L. 2012. Animating paper with shape memory alloys. Upcoming in Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on human factors in computing systems (CHI). S. Monache, D. Rocchesso, A. Gotzen, J. Qi, L. Buechley, and D. Cestaro. 2012. Paper mechanisms for sonic interaction. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied interaction (Kingston, ON, Canada,February 19-22, 2012). TEI ‘12. ACM, New York, NY.
2011		N. Freed, J. Qi, C. Sylla and P. Branco. 2011.  Beyond the binding: exploring the future book. 2011. In Proceedings of the 8th ACM conference on Creativity and Cognition (C&C ’11). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 445-446. N. Freed, J. Qi, A. Setapen, C. Breazeal, L. Buechley, and H. Raffle. 2011.  Sticking together: handcrafting personalized communication interfaces. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC), Ann Arbor, Michigan, pp. 238-241. D. Rosner, H. Perner-Wilson, J. Qi and L. Buechley. 2010. Fine binding meets electronics. Fine bookbinding meets electronics. In Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Tangible, embedded, and embodied interaction (TEI ’11). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 345-348.
2010		M. Sukan, O. Oda, X. Shi, M. Entrena, S. Sadalgi, J. Qi and S. Feiner. 2010.  ARmonica: a collaborative sonic environment. In Adjunct proceedings of the 23nd annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology (UIST ’10). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 401-402. J. Qi, and L. Buechley. 2010. Electronic Popables: exploring paper-based computing through an interactive pop-up book. In Proceedings of the Fourth international Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied interaction (Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, January 24 – 27, 2010). TEI ‘10. ACM, New York, NY, 121-128.
2008		Shen, K., Qi, J., and Kam, L.C., Microcontact Printing of Proteins for Cell Biology, JoVE 22. (2008).

Awards & Fellowships

2011 to present		NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION GRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOW
2010		STEVEN R. HOLTZMAN FELLOW for Digital Expression PI TAU SIGMA mechanical engineering honor society member
2009		ENGINEERING ARTS GRANT from Columbia University DISTRIBUTED RESEARCH EXPERIENCE FOR UNDERGRADUATES at MIT Media Lab
2008		SUMMER UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP at Columbia University

Technical Skills
		SOFTWARE: Adobe Suite: Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver; EAGLE Layout Editor; Rhino, SolidWorks, Pro/ENGINEER; LabVIEW
		PROGRAMMING: C, Java, MATLAB; Max/MSP, Processing; familiar with HTML, CSS, PHP, XNA Game Studio
		HARDWARE: microcontroller programming in assembly, C, Arduino; digital and analog electronics design and fabrication, PCB design; mechatronics; paper-based electronics and e-textiles
		FABRICATION: laser cutting, vinyl cutting, CNC milling, waterjet, 3D printing; wood shop, metal shop; welding