Associate Professor at the Department of Design at University of California, Davis. Director of Interactive Organisms Lab. Peruvian 🇵🇪

Joined April 2007
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Katia Cánepa Vega retweeted
Our team @Meta Superintelligence Labs is hiring current PhD students for 3-6 month, paid internships to work with us in London on reinforcement learning post-training of LLM agents. If this sounds interesting move fast and apply today at: metacareers.com/profile/job_…
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New Biocosmetic Interface from IOLab at ISWC2025, Finland. pHigment: Designing Biodegradable Single-Use Cosmetics for On-body Chemical Sensing Single-use cosmetics created with bio-based materials for biosensing chemical reactions in bodily and environmental fluids #iswc2025
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Three prototypes were presented: eyeliner, nail stickers and temporary tattoos. Please check our paper for more details: doi.org/10.1145/3714394.3750… And find the fabrication process, device and app at our GitHub: github.com/InteractiveOrgani…
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Authors: Olivia Bates Alyssa Yee Phil Gough Anusha Withana Katia Vega Exhibition design: Emily-Mae Mcconihe #ubicomp2025 #iswc2025 #biocosmetics #interactiveorganismslab Thanks to NSF CAREER 2146461 and USyd–UC Davis Ignition Grant.
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New Bicosmetic Interface! Nail pHolish was presented last September at INTERACT 2025 in Brazil. Nail pHolish: Sensing Hand-Fluid Interactions Through Biocosmetic Interfaces Shuyi Sun, Dana Mayfield, Yuan-Hao Ku, Jinho Yon & Katia Vega INTERACT25 doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-05…
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It explores how colorimetric biosensor cosmetics can detect changes in body and environmental fluids — from saliva, sweat, and vaginal secretions to beverages, rainwater, and swimming environments — offering a new interface for hand-fluids interactions. Supported by NSF CAREER
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Katia Cánepa Vega retweeted
Pls #share. #Hiring alert. Do you want to be a part of an amazing team and build next-generation neurotechnology involving novel electronic devices that seamlessly integrate with the brain, enabling #brain-#computer #symbiosis beyond conventional brain-computer interfaces? If so, the new start-up, Cahira Technologies that I founded based on many years of our research at #MIT is hiring! We have built the world’s first autonomous and non-surgical electronic implant for treating intractable neural diseases and for human augmentation. Stranger than science fiction and yet already proven in our clinical animal studies, this technology has won multiple prestigious awards till date. We are advancing this technology for human translation through our new #startup. There are several open positions in #nanoelectronic devices, #micro-#nano-#fabrication and #neuroscience/ #neurotechnology. Please apply based on best fit. See link in comment below. #hiring #recruiting #CMOS #semiconductors #diodes #transistors #microelectronics #MEMS #antenna #SolidStateDevicePhysics #CleanRoom #microfabrication #nanofabrication #MaterialsScience #neuromodulation #DBS #DeepBrainStimulation #Electrophysiology #Brain #InVivo #ImplantableMedicalDevices
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Katia Cánepa Vega retweeted
I am seeking 1-2 PhD students and 1-2 postdocs to work on theory in HCI, say, how the field uses theory, how to make theories more impactful in HCI, and how to develop better technology w theory. DL is June 9th, see shorturl.at/4FTkQ and shorturl.at/6DlA5. 🙏 🇩🇰🎓😃

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Reminder: today at 5PM PST Wearable Bio-HCI at #chi2025 I will be leading the online session. Can't wait to meet this amazing group of researchers to talk about the future of biological systems, wearables and HCI. For more info: hybridbody.human.cornell.edu…
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Organizers: Jingwen Zhu, Hybrid Body Lab Cornell University Fiona Bell, Hand & Machine Lab, University of New Mexico Katherine Song, Delft University of Technology Katia Cánepa Vega, Interactive Organisms Lab, UC Davis Aditya Shekhar Nittala, Diff Lab, University of Calgary
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Mirela Alistar, Living Matter Lab, University of Colorado Boulder Leah Buechley, Hand & Machine Lab, University of New Mexico Cindy Kao, Hybrid Body Lab, Cornell University
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Katia Cánepa Vega retweeted
Please join us at #CHI2025 Wearable Bio-HCI Special Interest Group on Thursday, 1 May, 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM (JST). Organizers: @Jingw3nZhu ,@fionaaabelll , Katherine Song, @kfcito , @adi_nag , @mirela_alistar , @leahbuechley , @cindyhlkao hybridbody.human.cornell.edu…
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I am excited to participate in the After The Dark series at the Exploratorium tomorrow, where I will be presenting some of the research developed at my lab, Interactive Organisms. Hope to see you there! exploratorium.edu/visit/cale…
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The #UCDavis Department of Design invites applications for the Endowed Chair in Textile/Fashion Design. Applicants must be at rank of Associate or Full Professor, focusing on sustainable practices & fashion. Please apply or share: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF06931 #facultyposition

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Katia Cánepa Vega retweeted
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🚀 Hiring PhD summer interns - PLEASE RT! At @AdobeResearch we're looking for students skilled in HCI & GenAI to transform Web experiences with aem.live! Topics: Web usability, page generation, evaluation, optimization, RAG,... Apply now! careers.adobe.com/us/en/job/…
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Katia Cánepa Vega retweeted
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📢 Scalable HCI symposium 📢 🗓️ Jan 6-10 🔗 ScalableHCI.com 🔍Context🔍 10 @mit researchers will spend Jan 2025 in Shenzhen to #HackManufacturing! ✨Cross pollination✨ Apply for 1 week of keynotes, workshops, demos, visits of factories / electronic markets, and more🔥

Media Lab/@MIT_CSAIL researcher @CedHon has compiled a comprehensive overview of the 2024 Research at Scale program—a one-month residency in Shenzhen to scale research with mass manufacturing for affordability or unprecedented magnitudes. medium.com/mit-media-lab/res…
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Katia Cánepa Vega retweeted
THE JOB POSTING is finally out: psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PS… #HCOMP2024 #UIST2024

Couldn't think of a better time to get our job posting approved by my university-- Penn State's IST is hiring TWO tenure-track faculty in HCI! If you're at #CHI2024, I'm around. Come ask me questions!
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Katia Cánepa Vega retweeted
Our group is looking for PhD Research Interns for 2025 🔍 The NVIDIA Toronto AI Labs' interests lie at the intersection of machine learning, computer vision, and physics. I'm also interested in foundational ML work, building tools to power AI models of the future. View more from our lab: research.nvidia.com/labs/tor… Apply here: nvidia.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com…

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Katia Cánepa Vega retweeted
I'm hiring! Join the Sensorimotor Interaction Group @sensintgroup as PhD, Postdoc, or Engineer. Work on kinesthetic displays, tactile AR, haptics, agency, wearables. Apply by Nov 4th! More info: sensint.mpi-inf.mpg.de/posit… @ERC_Research @SIC_Saar @acmuist @tei_conf @acm_chi #HCI

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Katia Cánepa Vega retweeted
📢📢 I am recruiting upto 3 PhD students to join Soundability Lab: accessibility.eecs.umich.edu 📢📢 We focus on HCI, Audio AI, Accessibility, Health tech, & Multimodal XR. If interested, please apply to UMich CSE PhD program. I'll also be there at #UIST2024 & #ASSETS2024 to talk! 😀

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