Violet Whitney
Co-Founder at University of Michigan
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolViolet Whitney is a designer-technologist and co-founder focused on spatial computing that prioritizes real-world spaces over wearable interfaces, blending research, product, and pedagogy across academia and industry. With a decade of experience, she led product and design initiatives at Sidewalk Labs—creating Delve (now part of Google Maps), deploying computer vision for pedestrian insights, and exploring LLMs for urban-scale problems. She teaches tangible and computational design at Columbia, UPenn, and Michigan, helped launch Columbia’s Computational Design Practices master’s, and co-runs Architechie, a meetup network for urban tech. Comfortable moving between rapid prototyping, computational design, and product strategy, Violet brings an uncommon mix of hands-on fabrication experience and AI-driven urban analytics to reimagine how cities and people interact with technology.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BSD Architectural Studies, BSD Architectural Studies at Arizona State UniversityMaster’s Degree Architecture, Master’s Degree Architecture at Columbia University
Github Skills (5)
deep-learning3
machine-learning3
keras3
tensorflow2
youtube1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
violetwhitney/Smorgasbord
Oct 2021 - Apr 2022
Contributions:1 PR, 191 pushes, 3 branches in 5 months
violetwhitney/google-street-view-image-capture
Apr 2017 - Mar 2019
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
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