About the Program

The Department of Information Resources (DIR) has an ongoing partnership with the University of Texas at Austin to offer graduate interns from the School of Information the opportunity to complete the requirements of their degrees by working on data and information related projects. The School of Information at UT is a multi-disciplinary program that offers graduate degrees in Information Studies as well as Information Security and Privacy. As these areas of study align well with the goals and mission of the Office of the Chief Data Officer, we welcome and are very proud of the contributions that interns make to our program.

Kunyu Chen is a master's student at UT iSchool. She is in the Five-year Integrated Program, which includes a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and a Master’s degree in Information Studies. Her relevant coursework includes software engineering, user experience, and product/project management. She worked on AWS integration as a Research & Development intern at Trend Micro during the summer. Her personal projects include a shopping and ordering system, an event search and recommendation website, and an Ads system. She works with OCDO to create interactive web elements for agency customers. The interactive web elements she created are on this demo page. Her professional goal is to build useful products with a good user experience.