Kanjun Qiu

Kanjun Qiu knits, spins sheep wool into yarn, and codes. She is an advocate for enabling nontraditional communities to build technology, and spoke at MIT TIMTalks on expanding the culture of computer science to allow more diverse populations to see themselves as creators of technology. In her thesis research at the MIT Media Lab, she studied how creating e-textile projects positively impacted students’ confidence with programming and building electronics. She currently works on the BizOps team at Dropbox, doing a combination of engineering, product management, and data analysis.

Kanjun received her BS and MNG degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT, where she also competed in ballroom dance, did algorithmic trading, and ran a yarn business.