shm garanganao almeda
hi there! Shm is... excited to present DreamSheets at CHI2024!
pronouns
contact ✉️ email : firstname (dot) lastname (at) berkeley.edu
🖼 instagram: @ shm.uh
🐦 twitter: @ shmu_h
📆 office hours: by appointment
shm garanganao almeda �pronounced: shim guhrangguhnow allmayduh
    currently... (click to expand)
    • SF Bay Area artist & computer scientist
    • 4th-year PhD in EECS Program at UC Berkeley, advised Bjoern Hartmann.
    • Human Computer Interaction researcher at the intersection of art + technology
    previously... (click to expand)
    • a child
    • Class of 2020 @ The College of New Jersey, Computer Science + Fine Art
    • Adobe Research Fellow, Computational Artistry Intern with Jose Echevaria and Stephen DiVerdi - 2019
    • the train guy at UIST 2023
interests
researching:
  • The impact of emergent technologies on creative communities (I'm thinking about the downstream effects of genAI on visual culture )
  • Designing systems for sustainable human-machine co-creativity (I've been thinking a lot about metadata & data dignity)
  • Creativity support tools & networks (new ones, and those that have become a part of a generation's geneaology)
  • Amplifying historically marginalized voices (while resisting the commoditization of "diverse" bodies)
generally:
favorite colors:
teaching
Select 1 of my 6 semesters of teaching below to view details.
  • CS160 - Summer 2021
  • CS160 - Spring 2022
  • CS160 - Summer 2022
  • CS160 - Spring 2023
  • DESINV23 - Summer 2023
  • DESINV202 - Fall 2023
  • DESINV23 - Spring 2024
Select a course to learn more.