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Lydia Muwanga

Primary interest is in innovation: art, design, and entrepreneurship. 2nd year Masters student studying Human-Computer Interaction at the School of Information.

Headline: Startup Member
Work status: Full-Time Student
Website: http://www.artfrequency.com
Industries: Internet
Skills: Business, Design, Editing, Engineering, Entrepreneurship, Human-Computer Interaction, Leadership, Marketing, Product design, Writing
Location: Ann Arbor
Groups: BASES, Entrepreneurship Week at Stanford University, Michigan Business Model Competition, MPowered Entrepreneurship, SI Create, ST@B: Startup @ Berkeley, Stanford C.S. and E.E Engineers Group, Y Combinator
Interested in: Brainstorming, Creating a group, Finding business partners, Finding engineers, Finding experts, Finding team mates, Getting press, Giving back, Growing my group, Helping friends, Learning about entrepreneurship, Meeting new people, Participating in a competition, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Raising money, Receiving feedback, Recruiting for my startup, Sharing my projects, Starting a company
Tags: Art, change, Innovation, music, Travel, ux
Schools: Colorado School of Mines, University of Michigan System - Ann Arbor

FULL BIO

Primary interest is in innovation, merging art and technology. Worked at a product design firm in Silicon Valley and studied art in Florence, Italy. Interested in building an internet application to increase exposure and access to art online.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Employer: Intel Corporation
Position: Human Factors Engineer Intern
Time period: May 2011 - August 2011

Employer: D2M, Inc
Position: Design Engineering Intern
Time period: May 2007 - August 2007

Employer: Caterpillar, Inc.
Position: Engineering Intern
Time period: May 2006 - August 2006

EDUCATION

University: University of Michigan System - Ann Arbor
Time period: 2010 - 2012
Degree: Human-Computer Interaction, MSc

University: Colorado School of Mines
Degree: Mechanical Engineering, BSc

INFORMATION

Awards: Intel Scholar, NSBE Outstanding Student, Kafadar Award for the arts

Lydia's Startups (1)

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  • Art Frequency

    Art Frequency is an online network and marketplace to share, buy, and sell artwork.

Lydia is Following (56)

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  • Gulliver

    End-to-end services provider for study abroad students.

  • DrupalAI

    Build intelligent algorithms (recommender, human computation, classification, etc) into Drupal CMS.

  • Grockit

    The world's first MMOLG

  • YouNoodle

    YouNoodle is a place to discover and support the hottest early-stage companies and university innovation.

Lydia's Contacts (71)

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  • Justin D'Atri

    First year Sustainable Systems Master's Student in the School of Natural Resources and the Environment.

  • Nick Fassler

    MBA/MS (Erb Institute at U-M), deep experience in online marketing, have worked at two start-ups previously.

  • Jenny Wu

    Jenny, majoring in Economics and Financial Math at University of Michigan, Class 2013