Shm Almeda
Graduate Student Researcher
Berkeley, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShm Almeda is a PhD candidate and Graduate Student Researcher at UC Berkeley who designs and builds creativity-supportive systems at the intersection of HCI, emergent technology, art, and design. With nine years of experience spanning academic research, industry internships at Adobe and Midjourney, and hands-on teaching, they translate artistic practice into tools and studies that support sociotechnical creative communities. They have a track record of shipping prototype systems and creative software—ranging from a pigment-mixing painting app at Adobe Research to studio-led electronics curricula—while mentoring students in UI design and creative coding. Based in Berkeley, they combine a maker’s studio ethic with rigorous user-centered evaluation to explore how tools shape creative workflows. Not obviously, their background includes computational biology and sign-language recognition projects, reflecting a long-standing interest in accessible and applied computational research.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Human Computer Interaction, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Human Computer Interaction at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at The College of New Jersey
Github Skills (8)
social-media3
divide2
minimize2
visualization2
python2
synthesis1
sequence1
rabbit1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
sarah-almeda/oligofriend
Dec 2018 - Apr 2019
Contributions:35 commits, 11 pushes in 4 months
s-almeda/ArtiFactor
Jan 2025 - Mar 2025
Contributions:28 PRs, 119 pushes, 23 branches in 1 month
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