Christopher Csikszentmihalyi
Associate Professor
City of Ithaca, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Csikszentmihalyi is an Associate Professor of Information Science at Cornell whose 20+ year career sits at the intersection of technology, media, politics, and the arts. He has founded and led influential research centers—including MIT’s Center for Future Civic Media and the Computing Culture group—and launched community-focused projects like RootIO to reinvent radio for the internet age. His work blends design, civic technology, and transparency-oriented reforms (from preferential voting to anti-corruption efforts), applying humanities-informed HCI to real-world social change. He has held leadership and advisory roles across international research institutes and funders, and his practice-driven scholarship pairs public installations and fellowships (Rockefeller, Radcliffe) with sustained community engagement. A not-obvious throughline in his career is a persistent effort to make “warm” cultural media technologies that scale democratically rather than merely technically.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoPhD(hc), Fine and Studio Arts, PhD(hc), Fine and Studio Arts at Cornish College of the ArtsBFA, Art & Technology, BFA, Art & Technology at School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Github Skills (80)
probot9
javascript8
ui-components8
semantic8
teensy8
vuetify8
vue8
vue-component8
telephony8
material-components7
operating-system7
qt7
relational7
typescript7
sd-card7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
csik/jek
Aug 2021 - Aug 2025
Jek is a minimalist jekyll theme putting the power of color schemes in the user’s hands. Toggle between schemes hassle-free, create new ones on the go, and store settings in-browser.
Contributions:51 pushes in 4 years 1 month
togglebrowsercreate-newcolor-schemeshands
csik/4240_Syllabus
Jul 2021 - Sep 2025
Contributions:4 PRs, 100 pushes, 5 branches in 4 years 2 months
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