Neilly Tan
Graduate Researcher
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNeilly Tan is a Ph.D. candidate in Human Centered Design & Engineering at the University of Washington with eight years of mixed research and design experience focused on privacy, sensors, and ethical technology. They bridge qualitative research and product design, having worked on privacy-enhancing products at Meta and led HCI research projects on bystander privacy for smart home cameras. Neilly combines teaching and leadership experience—organizing large-scale UX courses and bootcamps—with hands-on product work for HIPAA-compliant platforms and mental health startups. Their background in cognitive science, graphic/product design, and computational neuroscience gives them a rare interdisciplinary lens on how sensors and interfaces shape behavior. Collected publications and first-author work reflect a knack for translating complex data and ethical concerns into actionable design guidance.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Human Centered Design and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Human Centered Design and Engineering at University of WashingtonBachelor of Science - Sc.B., Cognitive Science, Bachelor of Science - Sc.B., Cognitive Science at Brown UniversityGraphic Design and Product Design, Graphic Design and Product Design at Rhode Island School of Design
English, Tagalog, French, Spanish
Github Skills (2)
eye-tracking8
webcam7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
neillytan/NLP-Project
Nov 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:36 pushes in 26 days
neillytan/web-dub
Jan 2022 - Apr 2022
Contributions:1 PR, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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