Scholar Profile

Michelle Park

Artificial Intelligence

Biography

Michelle is the founder of Impact Moonshots, an AI moonshot factory building joyful technology for social impact. She specializes in building high-end technology for critically overlooked markets in Silicon Valley, such as caregivers, low-income communities, and domestic violence survivors, and has led the development and management of products used by millions across government, philanthropy, corporate innovation labs, and academia.

Michelle serves as an advisor in state government on HIPAA compliance and privacy in behavioral healthcare and previously led the Colorado state's COVID Exposure Notifications effort, used over 3 million times to augment pandemic control efforts during the winter 2020 surge. Her prior work at NASA on a 3D solar system simulator is now used at space centers around the world.

Michelle has co-authored multiple award-winning research papers in Human-Computer Interaction with Stanford's HCI Lab, from search-and-rescue drone interfaces to telling stories through smartphone wallpapers to improve fitness activities. As a college student at Stanford University, Michelle invented the world's first privacy setting automation system for domestic violence survivors. Michelle aims to create joyful technology that tells and acts on human stories, and empowers people to live fuller lives.

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 speaks on AI for social impact, mission-driven innovation, cross-sector collaboration, and civic technology.

High school:  Francisco Bravo Medical Magnet High School

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