Rate My Professor Mimi Nguyen

Dr Mimi Nguyen serves as Lecturer in MA Innovation Management at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. She earned her PhD from Imperial College London in the Faculty of Engineering, where her research centred on creativity in a decentralised environment. Her academic background includes studies in Media Art at the Academy of Fine Arts Warsaw and Universität der Künste Berlin. Nguyen's research specialisations encompass the examination of how new technologies shape the future for creatives and engineers, with particular focus on data science, machine learning, blockchain, emotional AI with IBM Watson, and creativity in human-computer interaction. She maintains an active role as Creative Director at verse.works and as founder of NGUYEN WAHED, a London-based gallery dedicated to generative and contemporary art practices that connect technology with artistic expression. Key publications include the 2022 paper A systematic review of empirical studies on multidisciplinary design collaboration in Design Studies, the 2022 CHI Conference paper Moody Man: Improving creative teamwork through dynamic affective recognition, and the 2021 TIME article Why working from home doesn’t work for many employees. Additional works from 2022 and 2020 address multidisciplinary collaboration, shared cognition in distributed design teams, and dimensions of multidisciplinary collaboration, appearing in venues such as Proceedings of the Design Society, the International Electronics Communication Conference, and Cambridge University Press. Nguyen has exhibited and presented work at events including the Venice Architecture Biennale, CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, London Transport Museum, and the Great Exhibition Road Festival.