Jenny Fan

Expert Bio

Jenny is a multidisciplinary product designer, researcher, and artist. Her work focuses on designing for complex systems, ranging from building visual programming tools to defining democratic digital governance mechanisms for social computing systems. She's currently a Product Designer at Palantir, adjunct professor at NYU Tandon, and visiting researcher at UW's Social Futures Lab. Previously she has worked at IDEO as an Academic Fellow and Interaction Designer, TED Conferences as a CIVIC Summer Fellow, instructor at General Assembly, product designer at various Series A start-ups in NYC, and technology consultant at Accenture Interactive. She holds a Masters in Design Engineering from Harvard and a B.S. in Economics from UPenn Wharton, graduating with distinction from both.