Hello!

I am Dr. Andrew Sempere and I specialize in applying human-centric design techniques to solve strategic problems at the gnarly interface between the technical and the human.

As a designer, researcher and artist I've worked with people, computers and the internet for a while. I am trained as a visual designer but have worked professionally across design, research and software engineering. I have worked at many scales from enterprise organizations such as IBM and Pearson with well-established products down to small and scrappy early-stage startups working with prototypes (and on everything in-between).

Most recently I spent the last three years as the lead of systems design for immersive social platform VRChat.

I have worked and lived internationally, mostly in the Northeast United States, but also in Toronto, Canada and Lausanne, Switzerland. I'm currently based outside of Boston.

I hold a Bachelors of Fine Arts from SAIC with a focus on design and visual commucations, a Masters in Epistemology and Learning from the MIT Media Lab and a PhD in Architecture from EPFL.