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Anji Ren

UX Engineer at Google #hirewithgoogle
renalele@gmail.com
Hi there - I am a thinker and a builder. My passion is at the intersection of art and technology. Our lives are built around our interactions with other people and things, and my mission is to build and enhance those immersive experiences and positive feelings. My areas of interest are in UI/UX and interaction design; front-end web development; HCI and affective computing; social impact; design thinking; and product ideation and development.
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Work Experience

Google

UX Engineer
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Dec 2015 - Current

Continuing with the Hire (bebop) team, backed by Google, on a mission to build for enterprise.

bebop.co

Product Designer + Engineer
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Jul 2015 - Dec 2015

Amazon

Design Technologist
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Jun 2014 - Aug 2014

ConceptLab, Universal Shopping Experience

Small Design Firm, Inc.

Interaction Designer
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Jan 2014 - Feb 2014

MIT Ideation Lab

Undergraduate Researcher
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Sep 2013 - Dec 2013

I researched the effects of rendering style on user perception of the value of an idea. This research contributed to ongoing research in design thinking.

Toshiba

Electrical Engineering Intern
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Jun 2013 - Aug 2013

Design and analysis of circuits for NAND flash memory; EDA work in Cadence software; simulations using HSPICE. I independently designed and directed simulation tests to solve performance issues of a clock generator circuit at low power. In this process, I generated dozens of SPICE files to test and verify current consumption, stability, and performance of several NAND flash memory products. From my findings, implemented design changes on an existing oscillator circuit to stabilize operation at low voltages and produced layout-to-circuit back annotation for the same product.

Linear Technology

Electrical Engineering Intern
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Jan 2013 - Feb 2013

Mixed Signal Group I programmed and interfaced a GUI which enabled automatic rapid digital testing and performance verification (via I2C communication) of a voltage sequencing IC.

Broad Institute

Undergraduate Researcher
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Sep 2012 - Dec 2012

Computational Cancer Genomics I wrote a script in Python to automatically process complete genome RNA-seq data extracted from hundreds of breast cancer patients (for each patient: one copy of the genome from cancer cells, and one copy of the genome from healthy cells) to check for fusion junctions hypothesized to be a factor in the proliferation of breast cancer.

Hong Kong University EEE Department

SDE
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Jun 2012 - Aug 2012

I designed and developed an hand gesture imitation Android game application (Java in Eclipse) for children with ADHD. I also designed and implemented an image processing algorithm, which is incorporated into the game.

MIT Media Lab

Undergraduate Research Assistant
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Feb 2012 - May 2012

Affective Computing Group I collected data relating to interview behavior by conducting, video recording, and observing experiments in which students were interviewed by a professional career counselor in a mock setting. I also worked in Processing on a front-facing data visualization interface that displays the performance of a user who participates in a mock interview with a virtual avatar who acts as the interviewer.

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

B.S. Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
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Sep 2011 - Jun 2015

Activities and Societies: MIT Chinese Students' Club, Design for America, MIT Media Lab, MIT Sport Pistol Team, Red Cross, Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu

Princeton High School

High School Diploma General Studies
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Sep 2007 - Jun 2011

Activities and Societies: 101:FUND (Princeton Scholarship Foundation), Japanese National Honors Society, Princeton University Medical Center Junior Volunteer, Asian American Club