Elisa Ngan is a transdisciplinary experience designer, operations researcher, and visual poet. Her installations, publications, projects, products, and pedagogies are traversal vignettes navigating the emergent contingencies between truth, goodness, and beauty in contemporary data cultures.

Trained at the nexus of design, culture, and structure, Elisa has a Masters in Design Engineering from Harvard's Graduate School of Design and is currently pursuing a Masters of Fine Arts in Design Media Arts at UCLA. She has taught, lectured, and served as both a professor and a design critic at Harvard University, the University of Michigan, Parsons School of Design, Boston Architectural College, and Lawrence Technological University.
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In 2022, Elisa founded Amodal Completions LLC, a data design practice focused on researching, forecasting, and worlding the new roles, organizations, and operational platforms that need to emerge as scaffolding with frontier data-driven technology. Amodal's mission is to territorialize and amplify the most human of human intelligence by creating tools that probe the past, present, and future of data as feedback loop between humans, machines, and nature.

Working at the intersection of cybernetic environments, visual perception, and machined language, she continues to world her own demonstrations of architecture history and theory while exploring new ways embodiment and drawing can be utilized as learning mechanisms.