Scholar Profile

Michelle Park

Artificial Intelligence

Biography

Michelle is the founder of Impact Moonshots, the world's first AI moonshot factory for underrepresented communities. She also advises state government as a Behavioral Health AI Architect and Staff Engineering Lead for the Colorado Behavioral Health Administration and runs a boutique design lab with the mission to invent joyful technology. She previously founded Needle Studio Inc., a problem indexing and AI design studio, and is the host of the Serve and Delight podcast, a show on doing good well in Silicon Valley. Michelle is also a published co-author of several award-winning research papers in Human-Computer Interaction and has spoken on AI, machine learning in education, social impact design, and civic technology for NeurIPS, the Beeck Center for Social Impact and Innovation, and the United States Digital Response.

Michelle has taken a unique cross-sector approach to her interest in creating cutting-edge technology for social impact, leading large-scale products across academia, philanthropy, nonprofits, government, startups, and industry. She previously served as the Product Manager for the Colorado state government's COVID-19 Exposure Notifications system during the winter 2020 surge, used by over 30% of the state's population to alert others of possible COVID exposure, and worked at Apple, Google, NASA, and Schmidt Futures in product management and software engineering. She is also the recipient of the NASA Sister Clarice Award, and her 3D solar system simulation work for NASA is now used in space centers around the world.

Michelle is a Rhodes Scholar finalist and holds an M.S. in Computer Science and B.S. in Computer Science with Honors and Distinction from Stanford University, with depths in AI and human-computer interaction. She wrote her honors thesis on re-engineering digital privacy for domestic violence survivors, inventing the first cross-platform privacy automation system for survivors. Michelle believes that designing for the most overlooked user groups leads to the most novel innovation for everyone, stating that her goal throughout her career is to make people feel deeply seen and honored when using what she builds.

High school:  Francisco Bravo Medical Magnet High School

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