About Me

Hi, my name is Jia!

​I'm a recent graduate of Santa Clara University, where I studied Psychology with minors in Public Health and International Business. I'm currently a Business Analyst at The Alexander Group in New York City.

Born in Singapore and raised in the Bay Area, I'm passionate about making new connections in the mind, between people, and across cultures. I use data to tell meaningful stories, make innovative products and services more accessible, and foster empathy.

My interests range from cultural differences to UX research, spatial intelligence, and virtual reality. In my free time, you can find me working out, reading, writing, learning languages, and planning my next adventure.

Resume

Experience

• Business Analyst -- Alexander Group (August 2022 - present)
• UX Design Intern, Website Scrum Master -- Sisu VR (2021 - 2022)​
• ​Lead UX Researcher -- Santa Clara Laptop Orchestra (2021 - 2022)
• Psychology Research Assistant -- Culture Impacts Emotion Lab (2019 - present)​

​Publications

• Exploring Conceptualizations of Compassion in China and the United States -- TBD
• A proposal to combat unconscious bias using VR -- IEEE (2021)
• return: a poetry collection -- VirtualBookworm (2016)

Featured

• LAHS junior publishes book of poetry -- Traci Newell (2016)
• How Poetry Can Help Us Move On -- TEDxLosAltosHighSchool (2018)

Skills

• Research planning and design
• Data analysis
• Interviewing
• Surveys
• Project management: Scrum
• UX/UI
• Testing: usability testing, alpha testing
• ​Social media analytics

​Tools
     +++ Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Google Suite, SPSS, Qualtrics, Canva
     ++ Adobe XD, Figma, Trello, Webflow, Unity
     + R, HTML
Languages
••• English, Mandarin Chinese
•• Korean
• Spanish, Ancient Greek

What I've been up to...

• I value open-mindedness, interconnectedness, and dialectical thinking.
• My dominant archetypes are the Visionary, Intellectual, and Explorer.
• For the past three years, I’ve kept a "learning list" of everything I’ve learned outside of school: insightful quotes, notes from books, life lessons, and more
• I read 40 books in 2019...
  • ​Top picks: How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan, Becoming by Michelle Obama, Quiet by Susan Cain
• 80+ books in 2020...
  • ​Top picks: Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino, The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin, A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf, Recollections of My Nonexistence by Rebecca Solnit
• 60 books in 2021,
  • ​Top picks: The Iliad, Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami, Atomic Habits by James Clear, Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
• and more to come in 2022.
  • ​Top picks so far: Know My Name by Chanel Miller

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