Xavier Ho
Senior Lectuerer In Interaction Design at Monash University
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolXavier Ho is a multidisciplinary designer-researcher and Senior Lecturer in Interaction Design with 15 years’ experience at the intersection of queer game studies, data visualisation, and creative production. He combines academic leadership—PhD-trained research on idea networks in games and visiting fellowships at SSSHARC and the Hunt-Simes Institute—with applied engineering experience from CSIRO Data61 where he led graph visualisation for machine-learning projects. Xavier curates and produces public-facing work that makes LGBTQIA+ videogames and tabletop play visible, evidenced by awards, national media coverage, and exhibitions across major Australian venues. He also runs a creative videography studio and contributes to open-source projects like Open Data Cube, improving documentation and reproducible examples that bridge research and practice. Notably, his portfolio spans public art, academic scholarship, and software engineering, reflecting a rare blend of creative craft, technical rigor, and community-focused advocacy.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Engineering (Software Engineering with Advanced Studies), First-Class Honours, 6.75 (out of 7), Bachelor, Engineering (Software Engineering with Advanced Studies), First-Class Honours, 6.75 (out of 7) at Griffith UniversityThe University of SydneyDiploma, 3D Animation & Visual Effects, Diploma, 3D Animation & Visual Effects at Vancouver Film School
English, Chinese
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Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
opendatacube/datacube-core
Mar 2016 - Apr 2016
Open Data Cube analyses continental scale Earth Observation data through time
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 4 PRs, 5 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Xavier's contributions centered on modifying and updating documentation, adding installation instructions and making minor changes to example notebooks. The user removed a dependency, which indicates an understanding of the project's code base. The user further contributed to documentation, making it easier to understand the project, and added an example to demonstrate simple band maths. They also amended an example and tested examples to ensure they work.
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Spaxe/svg-pathd
May 2018 - Jun 2021
Minimal, Complete SVG Path constructor for its `d` attribute in Elm
Contributions:20 commits, 4 PRs, 15 pushes in 3 years 1 month
svgelmconstructorsvg-pathpath
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