Jonathan Zong
Assistant Professor Of Information Science
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJonathan Zong is an Assistant Professor of Information Science at the University of Colorado Boulder and a Faculty Associate at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center, blending academic leadership with hands-on research on equitable design. He pioneers non-visual data exploration by co-designing accessible interfaces with blind collaborators and builds frameworks for technology refusal and community-centered data ethics. Jonathan brings 11 years of experience spanning MIT CSAIL postdoctoral research and software internships at Google and Square, pairing deep technical skills with human-centered inquiry. As a full-stack contributor to the popular Vega/Lyra visualization environment, he modernized its codebase—adding TypeScript and upgrading React and Webpack—to keep an influential VDE usable for designers and researchers. His work has been recognized by the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship, an MIT design fellowship, and Forbes 30 Under 30, and he maintains an active parallel practice as an exhibiting visual artist. Trained at MIT and Princeton, he situates rigorous CS research within artful, community-engaged practice to make systems both legible and resistible.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyVisiting Student, Visiting Student at University of OxfordComputer Science + Visual Arts, Computer Science + Visual Arts at Princeton University
Github Skills (10)
typescript10
typescripts10
refactoring10
front-end-development10
webpacker10
react10
typescript-types10
refactor10
webpack10
javascript9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
vega/lyra
Nov 2018 - Jun 2021
An interactive, graphical Visualization Design Environment (VDE)
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:76 reviews, 466 commits, 81 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Jonathan primarily focused on refactoring and upgrading the Lyra project's codebase. They removed legacy dependencies like react-hot-loader, converted React 15 syntax to React 16, and upgraded webpack from version 3 to 4. The user also added TypeScript support, which impacted several frontend components, and refactored a series of components (Icon, Export, AddMarks, GroupChildren, GroupList, EncodingsSidebar, MarkList, GuideList, Footer) from javascript or react-create-class to Typescript.
visualization
mitsaw/mitsaw.github.io
Oct 2019 - Oct 2022
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years
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