Benedetta Piantella
Associate Professor & Affiliated Faculty, CUSP
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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SeniorBenedetta Piantella is an associate professor and humanitarian technologist who blends design, hands-on prototyping, and field-deployed engineering to tackle social, environmental, and health challenges. Born in Parma and trained at NYU ITP, she co-founded GROUND Lab® and T4D Lab® to deliver open-source hardware and scalable solutions for partners including the UN and UNICEF, and has led projects across East Africa. At NYU Tandon, Cornell Tech and SVA she teaches and mentors on physical computing, participatory design and prototyping while maintaining active consulting work on vaccine cold chain and solar systems. Her background spans art and product design to electronics assembly and manufacturing management, giving her uncommon fluency across concept, prototype and production. Colleagues know her as a prolific teacher-researcher who prefers building practical tools and open-source artifacts that are tested in real humanitarian contexts.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (4)
rapid10
solar10
alex10
web-platform9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
benedetoula/GIGANode
Nov 2021 - Jul 2022
Contributions:93 pushes, 6 branches in 7 months
Community-Tech-Lab/PNK
Jul 2024 - Nov 2024
Contributions:107 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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