Xiaoji Chen (陈晓霁) is a software engineer at Uber’s Visualization team. Prior to Uber, she was a designer for Microsoft’s Xbox One and Visual Studio, and published several works during her tenure at MIT’s Senseable City Lab. She studied architecture at Tsinghua University, and Design and Computation at MIT.
Her research interest include generative design, new paradigms of computer-human interaction and media technology’s impact on cities. Her projects look into:
- Innovative ways to visually present large amount of data and to reveal patterns in transportation, communication, environment and health
- Using data visualization to raise awareness on urban growth issues and influence population behavior
- Building visualization tools that democratize open data access and promote informed decision making
Uber Movement
Wall Street Jornal /New York Times /Washington Post /TechCrunch /AP /Fortune /Financial Times /USA Today
US Patents
11 US patents from work in Cortana, Xbox dashboard multitasking UI, Kinect gesture interaction, visualizing large graphs and touch‑first 3d manipulation
The Slow Glass
10th Shanghai Biennale, Power Station of Art, Shanghai
Sky Colors of Chinese Cities
Breathe-Life, World Health Organization /NPR /2013 Smart City, CMoDA, Beijing
Health Infoscape
GE /Fast Company “Infographic of the Day” /Scientific American / WIRED UK
Live Singapore!
Singapore Art Museum
The Connected States of America
TIME Magazine /New York Times
Redrawing the Boundary of Great Britain from Human Networks
PLoS, the Economist, BBC
Copenhagen Wheel
2009 UN Climate Summit, Copenhagen
OlymPEKed
XXIII UIA World Congress of Architecture, Turin
China Pavillion
2010 World Expo, Shanghai /Teamminus Studio
Kaleidia
4th place@2007 Microsoft Imagine Cup Software Design Competition China division
Intelligent Bionic Robot
1st prize@China Adolescents Science & Technology Innovation Contest