Karen Kuo is a fourth-year master's candidate at Harvard University Graduate School of Design, pursuing a Master of Architecture and Master of Design Studies with a concentration in Technology dual degree. Prior to attending the graduate program, she finished a bachelor's degree in landscape architecture at Pennsylvania State University. She has previously interned with different offices, including architecture offices SOM (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill), Morphosis architects; technology and fabrication office Fab Lab Barcelona, Space architecture exploration SEArch+.