Jie Qi is an artist, inventor, and entrepreneur. Her mission is to combine art with engineering to create experiences of wonder, and empower creators of all backgrounds to make their own expressive and personally meaningful technologies. She is co-founder and CEO of Chibitronics, a company that produces creative learning toolkits that blend coding and circuits with paper crafts. Jie holds a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Columbia University and an M.S. and Ph.D. in media arts and sciences from MIT. Her work has been exhibited at the Exploratorium Museum, Ars Electronica, and is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art.