Paris Myers
PhD Student · MIT · EECS & CSAIL
NSF GRFP ’23 Fellow
I am a PhD student in MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a researcher at CSAIL, working in the Human-Computer Interaction Engineering group led by Professor Stefanie Mueller. I am a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP) fellow, awarded in 2023. I received my MS from the MIT Media Lab in 2025.
My work explores how light, computation, and materials can shape the appearance of physical objects. I develop tools for creating programmable color and explore the connections between photonics, holography, and fabrication.
News
- MorphoChrome featured in MIT News: A new way to “paint with light”.
- My work on holographic fabrication and programmable structural color featured in MIT EECS, including RED GREEN BLUE at the MIT Museum.
- Our study of touch and dynamic objects featured in Harvard SEAS: How We Touch and Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems: How We Touch.
- Thermochromorph featured in MIT News: Images that transform through heat.
Select Research
Emergent patterns of interaction with dynamic objects
Buse Aktaş, Paris Myers, Emily Salem, Roberta L. Klatzky, Robert D. Howe
PLOS One 20(9): e0331844, 2025
Exploring how people touch and interact with objects whose stiffness changes through vacuum-based jamming.
Holographic Fabrication of Structural Color on 3D-Printed Surfaces
RED GREEN BLUE · Holographic films integrated with 3D-printed geometries to produce angle-dependent structural color.
MIT EECS featureAdditional publications 2020–2026 · 4 papers
- Revisional augmentation of residual neuromusculature and training facilitate embodiment and control of a bionic knee prosthesis
Tony Shu, John McCullough, Francesca Riccio-Ackerman, Junqing Qiao, Christian Landis, Yanmei Tie, Laura Rigolo, Matthew J. Carty, Corey L. Sullivan, Ged Weischhoff, Paris Myers, Christopher Shallal, Daniel Levine, Seong Ho Yeon, Ethan Chun, Michael Nawrot, Matthew Carney, Hugh M. Herr · medRxiv, 2026 · Preprint (not peer reviewed)
- Women Are Funny: Influence of Apparent Gender and Embodiment in Robot Comedy
Nisha Raghunath, Paris Myers, Christopher A. Sanchez, Naomi T. Fitter · ICSR 2021
- Beyond the Cube: A Curatorial Reflection on the Portrayal of Humanoid Robots
ICRA 2021 workshop “Sentimental Machines”
- Read the Room, Robot! Exploring Audiovisual Methods to Improve the Effectiveness of Robotic Comedians
Carson Gray, Paris Myers, Naomi T. Fitter · IROS 2020 workshop on Social AI for Human-Robot Interaction of Human-Care Service Robots
Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science — in progress
MS, MIT Media Lab — 2025
Thesis: Materializing Light: Real-time, Handheld Fabrication of Programmable Structural Color
Oregon State University · Honors College
Honors Bachelor of Science (HBS), Bioengineering
Honors Bachelor of Fine Arts (HBFA), Fine Art
Awards & Additional Contributions
- NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
2023 · National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program
- Council for the Arts at MIT (CAMIT) Grant Recipient
2024–2025 · Support for RED GREEN BLUE. MIT grant recipients
- MIT Science Policy Review — Artwork Contribution
2023 · Artwork accompanying Repairing the prosthetic science-policy rift: Challenges to improved access to and translation of prosthetic technologies, by Francesca Riccio-Ackerman, Laura Chicos, and Guillermo Herrera-Arcos.