Cindy Bishop
Research And Development Engineer, XR AI at MIT App Inventor
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolCindy Bishop is an R&D engineer at MIT RAISE with 11 years of experience designing accessible AI and XR experiences that empower non-coders and kids to create. She blends art and code—bringing a background in interactive media, VR/AR, and AI-driven storytelling from roles at MIT Media Lab, MIT Open Doc Lab, and the National Film Board of Canada. Cindy has led engineering teams and built production PERN/Hasura stacks for AI-assisted journalism, while also prototyping novel anonymity and CV features using FaceAPI.js and MediaPipe. Her work spans immersive festival and gallery installations worldwide and technical leadership on Sundance-selected projects, demonstrating fluency across Unity, WebGL/Three.js, Python, and cloud AI services. Based in Boston, she combines MFA-trained creative practice with deep systems experience dating back to enterprise software at RSA and GEOTRUST. A maker comfortable on stage and in the codebase, she specializes in translating experimental research into usable tools and playful public-facing experiences.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced Study non-degree, Advanced Study non-degree at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyB.A. Cognitive Science, B.A. Cognitive Science at Vassar CollegeWestminster SchoolsMaster of Fine Arts (MFA) Dynamic/Interactive Media, Master of Fine Arts (MFA) Dynamic/Interactive Media at Massachusetts College of Art and Design
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Github Skills (156)
content-analysis10
appinventor10
emotion-recognition10
python10
material-ui10
pipeline-framework10
svg10
3d10
rest-api10
flask10
calculator10
javascript10
react-components10
video-processing10
tensorflowjs10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
cindyloo/Cognitive-Speech-TTS
Jul 2019 - Nov 2024
Microsoft Text-to-Speech API sample code in several languages, part of Cognitive Services.
Contributions:5 pushes, 2 comments in 5 years 4 months
apiopenxmlazure-cognitive-servicesspeech-to-textspeech-api
cindyloo/appinventor-sources
Jan 2025 - Jul 2026
MIT App Inventor Public Open Source
Contributions:8 PRs, 111 pushes, 17 branches in 1 year 5 months
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