Portfolio ‘24
Zoe
‘Tzu-Jo’
Lin
01_Research
02 _Data Analytics
03_Technology
About Me
Zoe Lin is currently an Associate Researcher at Columbia University’s Center of Spatial Research (CSR), contributing to the Mapping Historical New York project. Her role involves data processing alongside the curating and editing of visual narratives told through historical geospatial data. With a M.S. in Computational Design Practices from GSAPP, where she received the Honour Award for Outstanding Capstone, she brings an interdisciplinary perspective rooted in Cognitive Science, to her research.
Concurrently, Zoe is also a consultant for the Digital Life Initiative at Cornell Tech, working on the design and development of Reward Reports, a new AI Documentation framework. She also serves as a Data Analyst Fellow at the Downtown Alliance.
She is interested in the design of smart systems, most particularly, in deceptively “dumb" systems that behave intelligently and robustly.
She is interested in the design of smart systems, most particularly, in deceptively “dumb" systems that behave intelligently and robustly.
Zoe believes equitable society-centric designs require conversations with the people these technologies serve and grounded observations of the environments these technologies situate.
Thus, her practice focuses on utilizing data to power impactful design decisions, with a focus on incorporate human consideration and feedback through grounded observations of the data’s locality.
Thus, her practice focuses on utilizing data to power impactful design decisions, with a focus on incorporate human consideration and feedback through grounded observations of the data’s locality.