About Gyda
I grew up in Pasadena, California, in a Thai immigrant family. I knew I wanted to make an impact on the world by doing hard things, which eventually led me to engineering. Later, I left home for the Midwest to pursue my B.S. and M.S. in Electrical & Computer Engineering at Northwestern University.
My day-to-day work on implantable medical devices has shown me that bringing a product to life is rarely about getting one thing to work in isolation. It's about understanding what happens when technology and people interact—and using engineering (+ plenty of hands-on debugging!) to make sense of the unexpected.
Outside of engineering, I'm an artsy and active gal with probably too many hobbies. I love handmade art, whether that means carving a linocut print or painting a refreshing scene, and I'm usually training for a race or climbing mountains for the views.
You can find me:
Making pretty things
Wandering the earth
or chasing my next personal record.
