Esmé Kelley

• Create digital workflows for CRDP material scientists and application engineers, including sample tracking, lineage visualization, and spreadsheet-to-GEMD transformation and validation
• Contribute React and TypeScript interfaces to R&D Central, a centralized monorepo for literature and document-analysis retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) applications and project file and metadata management
• Established an accessible shared React component library with Figma design foundations, Storybook documentation, production components, and frontend standards; 3+ CRDP teams are testing early adoption
• Deliver tested frontend applications and reusable platform capabilities with React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Vite, Playwright, GitHub Actions, and GitHub Copilot

• Directed a five-developer modernization initiative for GEMD-based materials and process tracking used by adhesives application engineers in South Korea
• Managed backlog priorities, sprint planning and refinement, user-feedback sessions, stakeholder coordination, and product and UX decisions from December 2022 through July 2023
• Extended the GEMD schema to better represent materials and process information

• Integrated reinforcement learning into a Unity simulation to evaluate optimal alert modalities

• Used HTC Vive and Unity to create a mixed-reality learning environment with greater speed and fidelity
• Built an educational review dashboard for Iowa State University instructors using an open-source computer-vision platform

• Guided a five-engineer team through technology discovery and delivery of 13 client-facing React application pages

• Served as lead developer for a virtual-reality farming-hazard simulation intended to reduce field accidents

Accessible React component library for consistent internal interface development across CRDP.

• Initiated the library and set its architecture, tooling, accessibility standards, and Figma design foundations
• Created 30+ production components with Storybook documentation, testing workflows, and CI support
• Enabled early adoption by 3+ CRDP teams, reducing duplicated frontend work and improving UI consistency

Master's thesis integrating NUPACK DNA-origami analysis into MolCog, a 3D molecular-design interface, and evaluating it against a conventional 2D tool suite.

• Integrated NUPACK into MolCog and built interface capabilities for molecular-design workflows
• Designed, conducted, and analyzed a 48-participant between-subjects study of productivity, errors, conceptual learning, and user experience
• Found promise for productivity and learning with 3D integrated workflows while identifying user-experience improvements needed for molecular-design tasks

Help shape chapter programming and bring external speakers to the 3M technical community.

• Partner with chapter leadership to identify and coordinate external speakers for technical events

Maintained the US Tech Forum's internal SharePoint presence.

• Kept organizational lists, site content, and data current
• Helped automate access for document-folder uploads and resolved content-management and site issues

Led chapter operations and technical programming for the Human Factors & Perception Science community.

• Organized 2-5 annual events, including paid external speakers, technical demonstrations, and project workshops
• Represented the chapter at senate meetings and handled annual registration, communications, and funding

Mentor a 2-4 student software subteam within a 15-30 student FIRST Robotics team through robot build, testing, and competition seasons.

• Advise Java and WPILib development, with an emphasis on modular architecture for a student-built competition robot
• Introduced Gitflow concepts and sequence and class diagrams to bring structure to an initially ad hoc codebase
• Help the team adopt stronger testing and CI practices while supporting regional and World Championship competitions

Recognized for creating a new component-library system with planning, confidence, and dedication.

Recognized for exceptional chapter leadership in the 3M Tech Forum, a community for scientists and technical professionals to share ideas.

Created and documented a user-interface mockup to help underserved students understand financial-aid options.

Recognized for outstanding teaching achievement; awarded to the top 10% of teaching assistants

Recognized for developing a virtual agriculture sprayer simulation, selected as the most innovative revolutionary commercial application for the virtual world.

Examines web and augmented-reality versions of a cyberlearning tool, evaluating how dynamic learning elements affect usability, motivation, and engineering students’ learning performance.

Practical guidance for designing and developing web content that is accessible to people with disabilities.

Describes TEACHActive, a feedback dashboard that transforms automated classroom observations into visual analytics that help instructors reflect on active-learning facilitation strategies.

Presents a human-centered design process for TEACHActive, using personas, instructor interviews, and walkthroughs to develop a classroom-analytics feedback dashboard.

Documents the institutional deployment of an automated classroom-feedback system, including lessons on recruitment, privacy, hardware, software, and campus IT support.