lorie's corner

artist and coder of silly things

about

Hi, I'm Lorie Chen — freshly graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a Bachelor's in Computer Science and Fine Arts. Based in Pittsburgh. Interested in shiny things and radiance fields. I wander around the city, take pictures, and occasionally make plotters do things.

experience

Research Assistant Studio for Creative Inquiry, The School of Art at CMU — Nov 2024–Present
  • Building interactive agentic interfaces in JavaScript/p5.js for real-time interaction with Gemini and ComfyUI-based generative AI models.
  • Extending ComfyUI pipelines to integrate state-of-the-art generative AI models for new research and creative workflows.
  • Developing real-time robot arm control workflows and 3D Gaussian Splatting guidelines for student onboarding.
Teaching Assistant The School of Art at CMU — Aug–Dec 2025
  • Designed and built 5+ interactive web interfaces for real-time user interaction with AI models including Gemini, ComfyUI pipelines, and vocal ML systems.
  • Extended open-source p5.js ComfyUI libraries to support cloud-based RunComfy instances.
Research Engineer Intern Adobe Research — May–Aug 2025
  • Developed novel AI video and 3D processing workflows for After Effects in C++, contributing to unannounced research features.
Research Assistant The Robotics Institute at CMU — Feb–Dec 2024
  • Enhanced user experience and robot perception for the CoFRIDA robotic painting system using OnShape and 3D printing.
  • Demonstrated new capabilities at IEEE RO-MAN 2024 to an audience of 50+ and presented to a panel of expert judges.
User Experience Designer Human-Computer Interaction Institute at CMU — Jan–May 2023

contact

Drop me a line or share a pun.