Nina Lutz
Research Assistant at Center for an Informed Public
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNina Lutz is a human-centered design engineer and researcher with a decade of experience blending computation, storytelling, and product strategy across academia and industry. She has held research roles at MIT Media Lab and the Center for an Informed Public, multiple research internships at Microsoft, and product leadership roles at Redfin, while founding KTLN Consulting to lead computational research engagements. Currently a PhD candidate at the University of Washington, Nina specializes in identity-aware interfaces and people-first narratives that pair rigorous math with playful, design-forward prototypes. She thrives on building empowering tools and interfaces that surface human stories rather than obscure them, and often approaches problems with an eccentric toolkit and a sense of craft. Based in Seattle, she bridges research, teaching, and product work to move ideas from lab concepts into real-world impact.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Human Centered Design Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Human Centered Design Engineering at University of WashingtonMasters of Science, Media Arts and Sciences, Masters of Science, Media Arts and Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
American Sign Language, Spanish, English
Github Skills (36)
calculator10
mediapipe10
video-processing10
audio-processing10
inference10
pipeline-framework10
pitch10
android10
perception10
computer-vision10
stream-processing10
neumorphism10
streaming10
pose9
face9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ninalutz/C11238-Spring2017
Jan 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:33 commits, 2 PRs, 31 pushes in 3 months
teachingmitvisual-programming
ninalutz/IAPVolumetricCinema
Jan 2019 - Jan 2019
Contributions:23 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 15 days
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