Jen Lowe is an American

data scientist Data science is an interdisciplinary field that uses scientific methods, processes, algorithms and systems to extract or extrapolate knowledge and insights from noisy, structured and unstructured data, and apply knowledge from data across a bro ...

and professor at

New York University New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then- Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin. In 1832, ...

Interactive Telecommunications Program The New York University Tisch School of the Arts (commonly referred to as Tisch) is the Performing arts, performing, cinematic and New media art, media arts school of New York University. Founded on August 17, 1965, Tisch is a training ground ...

(ITP). Lowe has also researched at

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manha ...

's Spatial Information Design Laboratory, as well as co-founding the

School for Poetic Computation The School for Poetic Computation (SFPC) is a hybrid of a school, residency and research group that was founded in 2013 in New York. A small group of students and faculty work closely to explore the intersections of code, art, hardware and the ...

in New York. She is a member of the collective

Deep Lab Deep Lab is a women's collective group composed of artists, researchers, writers, engineers, and cultural producers. These women are involved in critical assessments of contemporary digital culture and, together, work to exploit the potential for ...

. Lowe's work is primarily focused on human interactions with data technology, most notably her One Human Heartbeat project that visualizes Lowe's own heartbeat. Lowe currently lives in

New York New York most commonly refers to: * New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York * New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States New York may also refer to: Film and television * '' ...

Notable work

* ''One Human Heartbeat,'' a project in which Lowe visualized her heartbeat in semi- real time. The data was on a 24-hour delay to allow for data upload, but it played in real time. The piece was described as "hopeful." * ''Wind Flow'' *''Guayupia'', a collaboration with Patricio González Vivo. The two created a map of their son's genealogy and heritage, flipping the typical direction of maps so South was at the top. *''The Library Project'', a collaboration between

Laura Kurgan Laura Kurgan is a South African architect and an associate professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP). She directs the interdisciplinary Center for Spatial Research at GSAPP, which she fou ...

and the Spatial Information Design Lab, and visualization designers Annelie Berner and Derek Watkins.

Published work

* ''The Book of Shaders'' * ''Two-Component Horizontal Aerosol Motion Vectors in the Atmospheric Surface Layer from a Cross-Correlation Algorithm Applied to Scanning Elastic Backscatter Lidar Data'' * Clearing Space

References

American women scientists Living people Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American women {{US-scientist-stub