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YIMENG ZHU (EMMA)

EDUCATION MASSACHUSETTES INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ∙ CAMBRIDGE, MA SCHOOL OF AND PLANNING Master of Science in Art, Culture and Technology (expected 2021)

GPA: 5.0/5.0

CORNELL UNIVERSITY ∙ ITHACA, NY COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE, ART, AND PLANNING Bachelor of Architecture (2019)

Major: Architecture ∙ GPA: 3.72/4.0

PROFESSIONAL Visual Arts/Technology Residency, PIONEER WORKS, Brooklyn, NY EXPERIENCE January 2020 Led participatory walk “Boundary Stroll” Created “Go-pro Suit: Limb Eyes” Experimented with MOCAP techniques

Intern Architect, STEPHEN MOSER ARCHITECT, New York, NY September 2017 – November 2017 (part-time) Devised the main concept for the competition of Sandy Hook Memorial Participated in the and development phase of a residential house in Colorado

Intern Architect, THAD (), Beijing, China June 2017 – August 2017 Initiated a winning design proposal for the new campus planning of Yunnan University of Finance and Economics (responsible for site analysis and conceptual design)

Intern Architect, DOWA, Portland, OR May 2016 – July 2016 Conceived the spatial design for the competition of XQ Super School

Intern Architect, AREP, Beijing, China December 2015 – January 2016 Facilitated the planning and schematic design of a series of metro station architecture along line 3 in Beijing, specifically XingHuo station (which directly connects metro to train)

GRANTS & AWARDS Fellowship Award, Teaching Assistant for 4.362 Performance Art, MIT Spring 2020

CAMIT & ACT Pilot Grants, The Council for the Arts at MIT Fall2019 – Spring 2020

Tuition Award, MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology Fall2019 – Spring 2020

DEAN’S LIST, Fall 2015, Fall 2018, Spring 2019

Domesticated Landscapes: Incorporating the Nature in Roman Houses and Villas, SOPRINTENDENZA POMPEI, Pompei, Italy Spring 2017 Presented a semester-long group project with a poster titled “The Digital Topiarius: Modeling Vesuvian Garden Rooms Real and Imagined”

EXTRACURRICULAR E-Board Member (Public Outreach & Event Organization), CHINESE SA+P, MIT, Cambridge, MA ACTIVITIES Fall 2019-Present In charge of organizing social and cultural events (i.e. Boston Creative Mixer, Monument in the guts) within and beyond Chinese art and architectural communities in Boston

Class Representative for ACT, ARCHITECTURE STUDENT COUNCIL, MIT, Cambridge, MA Fall 2019-Present Bridging between student, faculty and staff on relative issues, including recent controversies around MIT Media Lab and fundings

Collaborator, COLLECTION OF HAINAN LI TEXTILE, Textile Hive, New York, NY Spring 2018 Collaborated with Andrea Aranow in curating her collection of Hainan Li textile for future exhibitions and updates on Textile Hive Conducted researches and interviews about the history of transformation of Li textile Investigated the lost meanings of Li motifs

Curatorial Intern, CORNELL COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS (CCA), Cornell University Spring 2017 Participated in the curation and reception of CCA 2016 Biennial “Abject/Object Empathies” Reorganized the archives of past CCA events prior to the 21st century

Scenic Designer, CORNELL CHINESE DRAMA SOCIETY, Cornell University Spring 2016 Designed and manufactured the stage set for the show Sand and a Distant Star

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SKILLS & Fabrication: CNC ∙ 3D Scan/Print ∙ Lasercut ∙ Wood/Metal ∙ Casting ∙ Sewing CERTIFICATE

Computer: Adobe Suite (Ps, Ai, Id, Pr) ∙ AutoCAD ∙ Rhino ∙ Grasshopper (Kangaroo)

SketchUp ∙ REVIT ∙ Audacity ∙ Eagle ∙ Linkage ∙ Arduino ∙ MAX (basic)

Language: English ∙ Mandarin (native) ∙ French (proficient in reading) ∙ Italian (0.5 years)

Python (basic) ∙ C (basic)

Certificate: Wilderness First Aid (CPR/AED) Issued by Cornell Wilderness & Environmental Medicine, Fall 2014 Level B1 in French Issued by Alliance Francaise de Chine, 2014

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