Michelle Park
I’m a Stanford-trained engineer building technology for complex human problems, from domestic violence to caregiving and public health.
MCAAD · Tapestry of Dreams
Featured in the Milken Center for Advancing the American Dream's Tapestry exhibit across the White House.
I’ve spent the last decade building technology for some of life’s hardest moments—from domestic violence and the COVID response to caregiving and behavioral healthcare. Across sectors, I kept encountering the same pattern: the more vulnerable the moment, the more complex the systems we’re asked to navigate. My work reverses that—using technology to lower barriers to action.
A gentle way for families to talk with aging parents about care, through multilingual conversation cards and an AI-personalized digital experience.
Upcoming museum gallery learning program
Current
Led product team for Colorado's statewide COVID Exposure Notifications, in collaboration with Apple and Google. Ultimately enabled on 4 million devices.
United States Digital Response Stretch Clap Award
2020-2021
Privacy-setting automation designed for domestic violence survivors with escalated privacy needs.
Stanford honors thesis
2019 · Updated 2021
Visualize your lifetime on your new tab page
Featured by the Chrome Web Store
2021 · Updated 2024
Improved NASA’s 3D space mission simulations on Cosmographia and created its online user guide. This work sharply improved simulation accuracy (i.e. corrected Saturn's tilt by 2.2%) and is now used across space centers from NASA to the ESA.
NASA Sister Clarice Lolich Award
2014 & 2015
An interactive dive into Russian interference tactics in the 2016 U.S. elections.
Talk at primer.ai
2020
Milken Institute · Report
2025
CHI
2020
Stanford · Honors Thesis
2021
IEEE/ACM HRI · Paper
2019
PerDis '18
2018
Essay · Public Service
2023
Intersect · Paper
2017
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A decade of building
From research papers to Chrome extensions, from digital art to product launches—exploring, shipping, and sharing what I learn along the way.
A gentle way for families to talk with aging parents about care, through multilingual conversation cards and an AI-personalized digital experience.
A live cause-link leaderboard for discovering and following issues people care about.
An earlier digital home for my projects and experiments.
Led product team for Colorado's COVID Exposure Notifications with Apple and Google.
An interactive dive into Russian interference tactics in the 2016 U.S. Elections
Crowdsourced map of wells in India, in partnership with Arghyam, a water sanitation nonprofit in India
Crowdsourced teaching material for mentors
Tutorial website for NASA's SPICE-enabled Cosmographia
Improved simulation accuracy for NASA's SPICE-enabled Cosmographia through integration of NASA NAIF's SPICE kernels. My work is now used in space centers around the world!
Count eggs, not calories! Introducing the world's first egg-based step counter.
Visualize your lifetime on your new tab page
A platform game of rediscovering color through the eyes of a chameleon.
Mapping restaurant scores in South Bay
Explore Stanford through sound
Privacy setting automation tool. Tell Berrier to turn off your profile visibility settings, and it'll do that for your LinkedIn, Facebook, and so on. I designed Berrier for domestic violence survivors with escalated privacy needs.
A tutoring tablet that adapts to children's learning needs and environment.
Storytelling to motivate behavior change on your phone wallpaper! Reach your step count goals, and Zuki the alien finds his long-lost brother. Fail, and Zuki feels the consequences 🥲 Won Best Paper at CHI 2020.
Gesture-controlled projection drone interface for search and rescue.
An AI tool to make websites more accessible for the blind.
Personal website maker for friends
Speech-to-banner app for elders who are blind and hard of hearing
A prototype for surfacing and organizing important problems through structured interviews.
Designed and improved security risk assessment processes for behavioral healthcare technology in state government.
Research exploring disintegrins and their potential role in cancer.
AI interviews and coaching
See yourself think
Poem on resilience
Data analysis of racial bias in San Francisco traffic stops
See your impact on ambient display
Curbside pickup for small businesses during COVID-19
Collaborative thrifting for low-income shoppers
Data analysis of racial bias in Texas traffic stops
Personalized version control for newspapers
Pulse monitor using keyboard strokes, connected to Heart Health Fractal Visualizer for input data
Founded large-scale book collection in Los Angeles to build a library in Nairobi's ByGrace Academy. Collected 2,500+ books from public and individual donations.
Visualization of heart health using pulse data, unhealthy BPMs lead to a more convoluted/clogged fractal
Custom shell written from scratch with no outside libraries - from reading GPIO pins to memory allocation, printf, graphics, and PS2 keyboard interpreters
A children's coding game that wraps the Java programming language with a graphical, button-based language used to move Karel the Robot through a maze.
Reflecting on the space between the 2nd and 3rd dimensions, made in Blender in response to Eli Lissitzky.
Digital art, reflecting on the limbo felt in an elevator. Anchored to a real elevator in augmented reality.
Raytraced digital art using custom-built models
Mirror art medium that animates graphics on top of user's reflection
I gift pencil portraits of folks every now and then
Artificially manipulating step count to research effects on actual fitness behavior.
New UI designs for Zenie, an AI journaling app
AI caregiving expert navigation and booking
I ranked #1 on the most popular competitive Pokémon platform, technically fulfilling my childhood dream to be the very best, that no one ever was.
I was on a loud bus when NASA called for my interview, so I took it from the bus restroom. Somehow, I got the job.
In a past life, I researched the use of synthetic snake venom to tackle cancer at USC, and learned to perform brain surgery on mice along the way.
I performed at Disneyland as a dancer, where I learned that you can be extremely nervous in an extremely magical place.
I’m always open to ambitious problems, unusual collaborations, and thoughtful people working on things worth making.
I’d especially love to hear from caregivers, behavioral scientists, chaos theory experts, and others thinking deeply about how people make sense of and act in difficult moments.
