Jon Chinen

Education
  • Harvard University, Master in Design Engineering
  • UC Berkeley, M.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering
  • University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa,
  • B.S. Mechanical Engineering
  • B.F.A. Graphic Design, Minor: Japanese
Experience
  • Harvard University - Senior Teaching Fellow, August 2023 – December 2023
  • Harvard Business School - Research Assistant, July 2022 – September 2023
  • Facebook - Frontend Engineer, December 2020 – July 2021
  • Renault-Nissan Innovation Lab - UX Research / Design Engineer, May 2019 – May 2020
  • Renault-Nissan Innovation Lab - Interaction Design Engineer, January 2018 – May 2019
  • Design Incubation Centre - Interaction Designer, October 2015 – March 2017
  • UC Berkeley - UX Design Researcher, Fall 2014 – Spring 2015
  • Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard - Nuclear Engineer, May 2014 – July 2014
  • Hawaii Space Grant Consortium - NASA Space Grant Fellow, Spring 2012
Honors
  • 2023: Harvard Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Education Justice at La Modelo Prison, Panelist
  • 2023: Graduate Thesis Guest Critic, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, School of Architecture
  • 2023: Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard – Summer Fellow [withdrew]
  • 2023: iF Design Student Award 2023, Circular Deathcare Design, Shortlisted (top 300 of 7000 submissions)
  • 2022: MIT Media Lab x Samsung Project the Future of Wellbeing Hackathon, WJM Design Award, 3rd Place
  • 2017, 2019: IDEO CoLab Makeathon Participant – San Francisco
  • 2015: National University of Singapore, Teaching Workshop & Seminar Program Certification
  • 2015: UC Berkeley 3D Printing Designathon, Berni Joint, 1st Place Award
  • 2014: UC Berkeley, Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership Merit Award
  • 2012 – 2013: Native Hawaiian Science and Engineering Mentorship Program Scholar
  • 2012: NASA Space Grant Fellow: Satellite Testbed Development
  • 2009: AIGA Hawai‘i 5-0, Top 5 Print Professional Award, deaf to Deaf.
  • 2009: AIGA Hawai‘i 5-0, Top 3 Student Design Award, deaf to Deaf book and exhibit installation.
  • 2009: AIGA Hawai‘i 5-0, Top 3 Student Design Award, draw | withdraw books.
  • 2008: Designed book set, draw/Withdraw, included in Cooper Union’s         website www.designingwithtype.com; also included in the School of   Visual Art’s - book, Design School Confidential.
Memberships
  • Harvard Indigenous Design Collective, 2022–Present
  • Harvard Circular Economy - Web Developer, 2021–2022
  • EPIC (Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference) - Member, 2018–2020
  • Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society - Alpha Kappa Psi Member, 2011 – Present · Engaged the community through an outreach program to increase awareness of Hawaii’s Meth problem.
  • Pi Tau Sigma Mechanical Engineering Honor Society, 2012 – Present
  • Society of Women Engineers - Fundraising and Event Chair, 2013 – 2014
  • Native Hawaiian Science and Engineering Mentorship Program, 2012 – 2013
  • Engineer’s Council at the University of Hawaii - Vice President of Communications, 2012 – 2013