Jiabao Li creates works addressing climate change, interspecies world sharing, humane technology, and a just, sustainable future. Her mediums include wearable, robot, AR/VR, projection, performance, software, and installation. In Jiabao’s TED Talk, she uncovered how technology mediates the way we perceive reality.
Jiabao is a Tenure Track Assistant Professor at The University of Texas at Austin. Her lab explores the intersection of art, design, technology, and biology. The interests are broadly spanning from interspecies co-creation to knowledge graph, from human-computer interaction to menstrual blood proteomes. She serves on juries for major design awards such as IDSA, D&AD, Biodesign Challenge, SIGGRAPH. She is co-founder and chief product officer of Endless Health and previously of Snapi Health. In her four years at Apple, she invented and explored new technologies for future products, including the Apple Vision Pro. She is a member of NEW INC Creative Science at the New Museum and ONX Studio.
Her work has been exhibited internationally, at MoMA, Venice Architecture Biennale, Ars Electronica, Future of Today Biennial, Exploratorium, Milan and Dubai Design Week, Ming Contemporary Museum, ISEA, Anchorage Museum, Museum of Design. Jiabao is the recipient of numerous awards, including Forbes China 30 Under 30, iF Design Award, Falling Walls, NEA, STARTS Prize, Fast Company, Core77, IDSA, A’ Design Award, Webby Award. Her academic papers have been published in top conferences and journals including SIGGRAPH, CHI, IEEE VIS, and Nature sub-journals. Her work has been featured on Fast Company, Art Forum, Business Insider, Bloomberg, Yahoo, TechCrunch, Domus, Yanko Design, Harvard Political Review.
Jiabao graduated from Harvard Graduate School of Design with a Master of Design in Technology with Distinction and Thesis Award. She was a researcher at MIT Media Lab. She holds a bachelor of Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National University of Singapore.
Education
Harvard University, Graduate School of Design 2016 - 2018
M.Des. Design Technology, with Distinction
National University of Singapore 2011 - 2015
B.Eng. Electrical & Computer Engineering, Distinction Honors
MIT Media Lab 2016 - 2018
Royal College of Art, Contemporary Art Practice 2018
RWTH Aachen, Human Computer Interaction 2014
Stanford University, Philosophy 2020
Experience
Assistant Professor, Tenure-track, UT Austin 2021 - Present
Apple, Designer for Experimental Products, Interfaces, and Technologies 2017 - 2021
Endless Health, Co-founder & CPO 2022 - Present
Snapi Health, Co-founder & CDO 2020-2021
IDSA Education Council 2022-2023
D&AD, BDC Award Jury 2022
Harvard University, Teaching Fellow 2017
Sea, Product Design Lead 2015
Award
Outstanding Professor Award, Biodesign Challenge @MoMA
Jerome Hill Artist Grant 2023
Raindance Film Festival, Best Immersive Experience for Social Impact 2022
Cannes World Film Festival, Best VR Short 2022
Webby Award 2022
Rasmuson Foundation Individual Artist Award 2022
Effie Marie Cain Regents Chair in Fine Arts Fellowship 2021
A’ Design Award 2021, 2022
STARTS Prize 2020, 2021
Falling Walls, Art and Science 2021
National Endowment for the Arts 2020
iF Design Award 2018
Core77 Design Award 2019
Fast Company World Changing Ideas Award 2019, 2021
IDSA 2019
Ubicomp/ISWC Design Award 2018
Project Prize for Best Thesis - Harvard GSD 2018
Game Design First Place Award - CHI Play 2017
First Place - Cities for a Flying World 2017
Hacking Art First Runnerup - MIT 2016
Innovation & Research Award - NUS 2015
Patent
Handwriting Entry on Electronic Device
Keyboard Management User Interfaces
Devices, Methods, And Graphical User Interfaces For Tracking Mitigation In Three-Dimensional Environments
Artist in Residence
Arctic Circle 2024
ONX Studio 2022
NEW INC year 8 2021
Anchorage Museum 2021
STARTS in Motion 2021
Artists in Nature International Network 2021
Exhibition
Today Art Museum Biennale, Beijing 2023
Venice Architecture Biennale, European Culture Center 2023
MoMA, Biodesign Challenge 2023
Currents New Media Gallery Solo Show 2023
Duande Art Museum Solo Show 2023
New Museum 2022
Raindance Film Festival 2022
IDFA DocLab 2022
ISEA, Barcelona 2022
Creative Santa Fe 2022
SIGGRAPH, Vancouver 2022
SXSW, Austin 2022
New Lab, NY 2022
Climate Week NYC 2022
Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria 2020 2021
McaM Ming Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai 2021
MOOD Museum of Design, Como, Italy 2021
Global Just Recovery Gathering 2021
Alaska State Museum 2021
Anchorage Museum 2021
OCAT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shenzhen 2020
Post-pandemic Contemporary Art Exhibition, Macao 2020
Donghu Shan Art Museum, Wuhan 2020
Broto Art-Climate-Science 2020
IEEE VIS Art 2020, 2021
Milan Design Week, Ventura Future 2019
Dubai Design Week, Global Grad Show 2018
Codame, San Francisco 2019
Primer, New York 2019
SIGGRAPH, Los Angeles 2019
CHI, Glasgow 2019
ISEA, South Korea 2019
Johnson Gallery, London 2018
Crossings Gallery, Boston 2017, 2018
Kirkland Gallery, Boston 2016
Talk
New Museum, Embodied Ecologies
Apple WWDC, Discoverable Design
TEDxBoston, Planetary stewardship
Google UXE Conference
Creative Santa Fe
Tencent Design Week
Transpecies Design Symposium
Technarte Bilbao
MuseumNext XR Summit
Idle Away Speculative Caricature
International Symposium on Electronic Art
Binary Salon
China VR & AR International Summit
Publication
SIGGRAPH | 2022 | Glacier’s Lament
CHI | 2022 | Unfinished Farewell
IEEE VIS AP | 2022 | Shifting Winds
ISEA | 2022 | Glacier’s Lament
SIGGRAPH | 2021 | Unfinished Farewell
IEEE VIS AP | 2021 | Glacier’s Lament
SIGGRAPH | 2019 | TransVision: Exploring the State of the Visual Field in the Age of Extreme Augmentation
Leonardo | 2019
CHI | 2019 | Hypercept: Speculating the Visual World Intervened by Digital Media
TransVision | Buy the book on Amazon
Domus Innovation Issue | 2018
ISEA | 2019 | Vapor as Tectonic Element to Sculpt Microclimate in Architectural Space
ISEA | 2019 | TransVision, Twinkle
ISWC | 2018 | TransVision: Exploring the State of the Visual Field in the Age of Extreme Augmentation
DIS | 2019 | Diffusive Geometries: Vapor as Tectonic Element to Sculpt Microclimate in Architectural Space
TEI Art | 2018 | Twinkle: A Flying Lighting Companion for Urban Safety
IEEE VIS, TVCG | 2018 | DXR: A Toolkit for Building Immersive Data Visualizations
IEEE VIS AP | 2020 | Unfinished Farewell
CHI Play | 2017 | CatEscape: An Asymmetrical Multiplatform Game Connecting Virtual, Augmented and Physical World
CHI Play | 2017 | MagicTorch: A Context-aware Projection System for Asymmetrical VR Games
Platform 10 | 2017 | Twinkle, Beach, Her
Platform 11 | 2018 | TransVision
Scientific Reports | 2014 | Laser hybrid nanostructuring of Si surfaces in air for SERS detection
Nanotechnology | 2014 | High aspect ratio SiNW arrays with Ag nanoparticles decoration for SERS detection