Taylor Naomi Sihavong

I was a cohort facilitator under Rob Reich and Mehran Sahami for the Ethics, Technology, and Public Policy for Practitioners course at the Stanford McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society (opens in a new tab).

I co-founded the tech education nonprofit Code.X (opens in a new tab), which provides tech, design, and entrepreneurship education to youth in fragile and conflict-affected regions worldwide.

I pushed exploratory design research and data-driven UI/UX design as a product design and research lead at Pear Therapeutics, Change Healthcare (opens in a new tab), Agathos (opens in a new tab), and Akido Labs (opens in a new tab).

I organized community-focused design research for food assistance users as a NEXT Fellow at the Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign (opens in a new tab).

I taught classrooms of students ranging from 2 to 18 years old as a youth educator and STEM curriculum designer for Paltel Group and Stanford Bing Nursery School (opens in a new tab).

I researched ultra-affordable agricultural structures for small farmers in Telangana, India, as a design engineer for Kheyti (opens in a new tab).

I did a number of scientific side-quests exploring space sciences and astrobiology, preventative medicine, and behavioral sciences as a quantitative researcher and data analyst at NASA's Ames Research Center (opens in a new tab), Stanford Sarafan ChEM-H (opens in a new tab), Stanford School of Medicine (opens in a new tab), University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center (opens in a new tab), and the Stanford PPRG Lab (opens in a new tab).

I enjoy being tossed in the deep end, learning on the fly, and untangling complex problems. I work best with small, fast-paced teams. I hold a Bachelor of Science from Stanford University in Product Design Engineering and consider myself both a builder and an artist. I've been described as ambitious yet down-to-earth, reliable, and purpose-driven.

Thanks for reading this page, which is really just a collection of work I'm proud of.