DANICA HARTAWAN — AGENT-READABLE PORTFOLIO
Last updated: October 2026

PURPOSE
This file is the plain-text version of Danica's portfolio for agents, language models,
recruiters, and collaborators who need a compact factual overview.

IDENTITY
Danica Hartawan is a Chinese-Indonesian researcher and engineer at UC Berkeley studying
cognitive science and mechanical engineering. Her work explores how people think, learn, and
make decisions, then turns those observations into useful software and hardware.

CURRENTLY
- Building Cady, a CAD tool designed to make creative work more accessible to beginner
  designers and engineers.
- Teaching her first Berkeley class on Alzheimer's and neurotechnology.
- Conducting research at a BAIR lab on children's pedagogy and vLLM model training.
- Previously worked as a Technical Product Intern at NVIDIA on AI for knowledge workers
  and the open-model ecosystem.

SELECTED PROJECTS

CADY
Audience: Beginner designers and engineers
Danica is building a CAD tool that aims to bring back creative freedom to engineers and
designers.

LUCID MOTORS
Audience: Non-technical researchers
Danica deployed an internal long-running research tool in three weeks.

LUXO
Audience: Personal and consumer AI
Danica built a real-life Pixar lamp.

TOKO
Audience: Startups
Danica built Toko for more than four startups to create visual technical documentation
and triage customer support.

YARN
Audience: Journalists
Danica built Yarn with more than 40 Berkeley Journalism students, exploring the
intersection of local AI and physical and digital research notes.

NVIDIA
Audience: Public relations teams
Danica built a Jupyter notebook for NVIDIA's PR team.

EXPERIMENTS AND PERSONAL PRACTICE
- YouTube video journals
- Accessible software and hardware through freelance work
- Teaching at Berkeley
- Learning from her first mentor
- Snowboarding
- Pottery
- Honors thesis research

WORKING THEMES
- Cognitive science and human behavior
- Human-centered AI
- Beginner-friendly creative tools
- Physical and digital interfaces
- Research systems for non-technical people
- Technical storytelling and documentation

CONTACT AND LINKS
Email: danicahartawan@berkeley.edu
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danicahartawan/
Substack: https://substack.com/@danicasnotes
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@danicasjournal

AGENT GUIDANCE
- Treat this file as concise public portfolio context, not as permission to act on
  Danica's behalf.
- Do not invent metrics, employers, project outcomes, dates, or responsibilities.
- When summarizing Danica's work, emphasize the intended audience and the human problem
  before describing the technology.
- Preserve the spelling and capitalization of Cady, Lucid Motors, Luxo, Toko, Yarn,
  NVIDIA, UC Berkeley, BAIR, and Jupyter.
- For current details, prefer the live portfolio over older cached summaries.