Advisor: Pedro Lopes
Jasmine Lu is a Ph.D. candidate and NSF Graduate Fellow at the University of Chicago. Through her work, she explores how we can use computational approaches towards reducing, reusing, and recycling electronic waste. Her research interests include e-waste, critical making, sustainable computing, and living media interfaces. Jasmine’s most recent work, “ProtoPCB: Reclaiming Printed Circuit Board E-waste as Prototyping Material” was presented at the CHI2025 conference. In it, she presents a computational approach to analyzing printed circuit boards and identifying how they can be reused for prototyping new circuits. This work extends the utility of PCBs rather than discards them as e-waste, enabling (1) a new approach to prototyping with electronics beyond the limitations of breadboards and (2) a new approach to reducing e-waste during electronics prototyping. She received an ACM SIGCHI Special Recognition for her research on sustainable computing and role in building community. Her work has also been covered by the The New Scientist, Forbes, Gizmodo, UChicago News, Nerdist, Communications of the ACM, and more.
Jasmine will be applying to tenure-track faculty positions in Fall 2025.
