Rachel Hwang is an engineer and an artist. As such, she leads a global effort to develop powerful new platforms for visualizing geospatial data. Through Cesium, an opensource software platform, Rachel engages the global community to develop and optimize 3D maps in a way that is applicable to a variety of fields, from designing buildings to studying asteroids millions of miles away.

A graduate from Penn’s Computer Graphics and Game Technology Masters program, Rachel is now a software developer on the Cesium team at Analytical Graphics Inc, which has provided 3D dynamicdata visualization for the space and defense industries. She has also designed and now leads a procedural graphics course at Penn, in which she teaches the power of using programming as a creative medium at the intersection of art and technology.

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx