Aubrey Simonson
Research Assistant at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolAubrey Simonson is a VR researcher and interaction designer with eight years of experience building immersive systems and teaching VR development across MIT, Harvard, and Northeastern. Currently a PhD researcher at Northeastern’s CAMD, they blend academic rigor with hands-on prototyping—creating training simulations for industrial additive manufacturing and experimental interaction systems from their MIT Media Lab thesis. They’ve mentored students in Unity, Blender, haptics, and BCI interfaces, and repeatedly translate creative, art-school sensibilities into technical tools and coursework. Comfortable in both lab and production settings, Aubrey pairs practical hardware and software chops with a critical, sometimes skeptical take on tech utopianism.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Media Arts and Sciences, Master of Science - MS, Media Arts and Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyHigh School Degree, International Baccalaureate Diploma, High School Degree, International Baccalaureate Diploma at Canandaigua AcademyPolitical Science and Government, Media Arts and Sciences, Political Science and Government, Media Arts and Sciences at Wellesley College
English, GermanProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
aubreySimonson/nostalgia-box
Apr 2018 - Mar 2021
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
aubreySimonson/constellations-vr
Nov 2022 - Apr 2024
A pretty close copy of the most basic functionality of the constellations project (https://player.vimeo.com/video/124543339?h=e03edbb8b8) by the Opera of the Future Group at the MIT Media Lab. This version is in VR, and is meant to be a proof of concept and basic exploration of using the Bird cursor to interact with sound in virtual environments.
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
virtual-realityvirtual-environmentsinteractoperabird
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