Mary Baker has just started Palace3D – a contracting and consulting business in computational design. Until recently she was an Architect in Computational Design for Additive Manufacturing at HP Inc. Before working in additive manufacturing, her research covered a broad range of areas including mobile systems and applications, physical affordances for IoT privacy, digital preservation, and usable authentication. She was on the faculty of the computer science department at Stanford University for almost 10 years where she led the MosquitoNet and Mobile People Architecture projects and graduated 7 PhD students. She has received a Sloan Foundation Fellowship, an Okawa Foundation Grant, and an NSF CAREER Award. She is an ACM Distinguished Engineer, a Senior Member of the IEEE, a founding member of the editorial board for IEEE Pervasive Computing, and a recent member of the DARPA Information Science and Technology Study Group. She has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley. Her current work combines design creativity with mathematics and computer science. She’s known for wearing a lot of plastic jewelry and for personally using 3D print for everything from calming worried teenage drivers to discouraging ants in the kitchen.
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Mary Baker
Lead Computational Designer
Palace3D
