Jiabao Li is an artist and Associate Professor at Northeastern University (Oakland, CA). She was an Assistant Professor at UT Austin and a Visiting Professor at Stanford. She creates works addressing climate change, interspecies co-creation, humane technology, and perceptions. Her mediums include wearable, robot, AR/VR, performance, scientific experiment, installation. In Jiabao’s TED Talk, she uncovered how technology mediates the way we perceive reality.
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, and Outstanding Instructor Award. Her work has been exhibited internationally, at Venice Architecture Biennale, MoMA, Ars Electronica, Exploratorium, Future of Today Biennial, Shenzhen Biennial, Macao Biennial, Milan and Dubai Design Week, The Contemporary Austin, Ming Contemporary Museum, OCAT, Museum of Design. Her academic papers have been published in top conferences and journals including SIGGRAPH, CHI, ISEA, IEEE VIS. Her work has been featured on Fast Company, Art Forum, Business Insider, Bloomberg, Yahoo, South China Morning Post, TechCrunch, Domus, Yanko Design, Harvard Political Review, The National, Leonardo. Her solo exhibitions include “Chill Out: The Arctic Couldn’t”, “Progenitorial Hysteresis”, “Perception Omnifold”, and “Ecological Soup: Interspecies Encounters”.
She serves on juries for major design awards such as IDSA, D&AD, Biodesign Challenge, SIGGRAPH. She is co-founder and chief design 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 Onassis Foundation, a Fellow at Ars Electronica Founding lab, and an expert consultant at Tencent. She graduated from Harvard GSD with Distinction and thesis award.