Multidisciplinary Designer — Hardware × Software

Sabrina Tian is a designer & researcher with a focus on cross-cultural design, data storytelling, & human-centered innovation.

Currently @ Jacobs Engineering
Previously @ MIT, Snap Inc, RCA x Imperial

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Selected Work

04 projects

Jacobs Dashboard

2025–Present SF Bay Area

Software Research

Command-Level Dashboards

Decision-making tools for engineers & planners

Sensing Garden

2024–2025 Amsterdam, London, Boston, Laval

Physical Research

Sensing Garden

AI-enabled biodiversity monitoring hardware

Octopus

2025 Amsterdam, Dubai, Milan

Octopus

Modular, urban sensing device

Vleur

2023 Tokyo, NYC, Dubai

Physical Research

Vleur

Transforming food waste into personal care products

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05 Slowing by Design

ResearchSoftware

ResearchSoftware

07 Oscillating Cultures

London

SoftwareCraft

08 PlastiCraft: Perception of Waste in Japan

09 Superbloom: the GID Return Exhibition

10 Upcycling Workshop @ AkeruE (Panasonic Creative Museum)

ResearchPhysical

ResearchPhysical

12 Skinside Out

13 Tactile Language Learning

14 Poole Pavilion

15 Babble Bubble

16 Project Poldergeist: How will the Netherlands defend itself against climate change?

17 Born in China, Grown in America

18 SCOBY: Experiment & Tea Bags

PhysicalResearch

19 T.E.S.T with Vemlidy

New York City

Software

20 Theia Health Ventures

21 The Future of Waste

22 Heart of Valley's Delight

About

Sabrina Tian

MSc/MA Global Innovation Design @ Imperial College London × Royal College of Art
BA Design + Computational Cognitive Science @ University of Pennsylvania.

Product design Digital strategy Hardware prototyping Design systems User research Cross-cultural research Data visualization AR / XR Biodesign