About

Jingwen Zhu is a researcher and designer based in Ithaca, New York. Her work bridges e-textiles, sustainable materials, and smart devices. She is passionate about crafting engaging user experiences and melding time-honored crafting techniques with advanced technologies. Her research has been presented at major conferences, including ACM CHI, UIST, and ISWC, with Best Paper Honorable Mention awards and Design Exhibition awards. She was honored as an EECS Rising Star 2024.

Jingwen completed her bachelor’s degree in D&I, Tongji University, and received her master's degree from ITP, New York University. She is currently a Ph.D candidate researching e-textiles and on-skin interfaces in the Hybrid Body Lab at Cornell University. Prior to her PhD studies, she worked as an electrical design engineer at Tomorrow Lab in NYC and an adjunct instructor at ITP.

News

10/29/2024 I’m serving as an AC for Creativity & Cognition 2025 paper track
10/24/2024 I’m honored to be selected to attend Rising Star in EECS at MIT
10/16/2024 EcoThreads Sustainable E-Textiles Workshop covered by Cornell HCD “Hybrid Body Lab brings sustainable e-textiles to NYC” [Read]
09/29/2024 I will host EcoThreads Sustainable E-Textiles Workshop during New York Textiles Month [Register Here]
09/13/2024 I’m serving for CHI 2025 design subcommittee as an AC
08/27/2024 EcoThreads swatch will be on display at Natalie and James Thompson Gallery, SJSU
07/26/2024 BioWeave and EcoThreads covered by Cornell HCD “Weaving health and sustainability into interactive textiles” [Read]
07/25/2024 Hosted EcoThreads Sustainable E-Textiles Workshop at Tompkins County Public Library Maker Space
06/13/2024 Presented my work and participated in panel discussion at MIT-HPI “Design for Sustainability” Seminar
05/14/2024 Presented EcoThreads at CHI 2024, received Special Recognition for Sustainable Practices Runner-Up
05/07/2024 Passed my PhD A Exam and officially become a PhD candidate now.
04/20/2024 Awarded CCSS Qualitative and Interpretive Research Institute Small Research Grant
04/24/2024 EcoThreads exhibited at Techtextil 2024 in Frankfurt [Photos]
12/25/2023 Awarded AATCC Foundation Student Research Support Grant
10/30/2023 Presented BioWeave at UIST 2023
10/12/2023 Social Prosthesis received ISWC 2023 Design Exhibition Award
10/01/2023 Featured on Cornell University Instagram [Video]