Ellen Jiang

code, design, paint

Selected Work

Lumi

AI-augmented reading interface

Concept, design, and engineering. Built the full production app with Firebase backend. Published on Google PAIR blog.

Lumi App Blog Source

Dear Upstairs Neighbors

Animated short film, Sundance panel 2026

Effects animator and research engineer. Generated stylized shots using AI video pipelines, plus hand-drawn 2D effects animation.

Trailer Blog

Grid of 365 daily paintings made in Colorfill

Colorfill + 365 Paintings

Digital painting app for color studies

Solo project. Built the app, then completed 365 daily paintings in it.

Colorfill App

PAIR Explorables

Interactive explainers, published on Google PAIR

Contributing author. Built interactive visualizations for two articles on differential privacy and data leakage.

Randomized Response Why Some Models Leak Data

Depth Predictions in Art

Exploring ML depth prediction across art history

PAIR intern project. Built an interactive visualization and co-authored the blog post.

Interactive Demo Blog (Part 1) Blog (Part 2) Source

Publications

PromptChainer: Chaining Large Language Model Prompts through Visual Programming CHI 2022
Discovering the Syntax and Strategies of Natural Language Programming with Generative Language Models CHI 2022
PromptMaker: Prompt-based Prototyping with Large Language Models CHI EA 2022
Program Synthesis with Large Language Models arXiv 2021
The Language Interpretability Tool: Extensible, Interactive Visualizations and Analysis for NLP Models EMNLP 2020 Demo
ShapeAssembly: Learning to Generate Programs for 3D Shape Structure Synthesis SIGGRAPH Asia 2020

About

I'm a research engineer on Google DeepMind's People + AI Research team, where I design and build interactive tools. I like to work where technical and creative thinking overlap.

I studied computer science at Brown, where I interned at the Pixar Undergraduate Program and was Head TA for the 3D computer animation course. I also paint.