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 (112)
captive-portal9
lte9
twilio-api9
semantic9
robot9
freeswitch9
teensy9
4g9
vue9
javascript8
ui-components8
barrage8
probot8
neumorphism8
vuejs38
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
csik/4240_Syllabus
Jul 2021 - Nov 2024
Contributions:4 PRs, 97 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 4 months
rootio/rootio.github.io
Aug 2016 - Apr 2019
RootIO Documentation Site
Contributions:2 PRs, 12 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 8 months
documentation-site
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