Jennifer Jacobs
Assistant Professor at University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, California, United States
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Top SchoolJennifer Jacobs is an Assistant Professor in Media Arts and Technology at UC Santa Barbara who blends academic rigor with hands-on creative tooling to broaden participation in procedural art and computational design. With a PhD from the MIT Media Lab’s Lifelong Kindergarten group and a background spanning HCI, digital fabrication, and creative coding, she builds programming languages and software that make advanced design practices accessible to artists, designers, and craftspeople. Her decade-plus career includes postdoctoral work at Stanford and formative roles at Eyebeam and Tiltfactor, reflecting a practice that moves fluidly between research, teaching, and production. Notably, she pairs theoretical inquiry with practical systems—often prototyping tools that surface new creative workflows rather than just artifacts—bringing an unusually applied lens to arts-oriented computation.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Masters of Science, Integrated Media Arts, Masters of Science, Integrated Media Arts at MITDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Media Arts and Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Media Arts and Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBFA, Digital Arts, BFA, Digital Arts at University of OregonMFA, Integrated Media Arts, MFA, Integrated Media Arts at Hunter College
Github Skills (10)
javascript3
desktop3
leaf2
electron2
editor2
swift1
opengl1
drawing1
ipad1
key-value1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mitmedialab/para
Sep 2014 - Apr 2016
Contributions:17 commits, 14 PRs, 410 pushes in 1 year 7 months
pixelmaid/DynamicBrushes
Mar 2018 - Sep 2019
Contributions:213 commits, 304 pushes, 15 branches in 1 year 6 months
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