Official Biography

Erin Jerri Malonzo Pañgilinan is a leading voice spanning a career across the industries of technology, entertainment, and civic engagement.

For over 8 years, she has worked as a software engineer and computational designer, educator, and author at the intersection of spatial computing, AI, and web development. She is currently working on writing her next books, creating her next apps, and experiences, TV/films: including writing her next solo technical book and course for software engineers developing native and cross-platform spatial computing apps and Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Erin is an internationally acclaimed author, publishing Book Authority’s #2 must-read book on Virtual Reality in 2019, O’Reilly Media book, Creating Augmented and Virtual Realities: Theory and Practice for Next-Generation of Spatial Computing, which has been translated into Chinese, Korean, and distributed in over 2 dozen countries. 

She was also previously a fellow in the University of San Francisco (USF) Data Institute’s Deep Learning Program (2017-2018) and Data Ethics Inaugural Class (2020) through fast.ai. 

Erin was selected in tech and entrepreneurial fellowships including: Amazon Web Services (AWS) CTO Fellowship (2022), GitCoin Kernel (2021), Alley (Verizon Ventures - 2019), Meta/Facebook’s Oculus Launch Pad (2018). 

Early in her career, Erin worked for over 5 years in civic engagement and was official paid electoral campaign staff for Ro Khanna for Congress (2014) and Obama for America (2012). 

For over a decade, Erin has been as sought out advocate serving numerous non-profit organization boards. In 2015, she founded Filipinx Americans in STEAM - Science Technology Engineering Arts and Mathematics (FASTER), where she serves as National Board President. She previously co-founded and advised ARVR Academy, serving women and underrepresented communities in AR VR industry, and serves as an adviser to the Silicon Valley Iceskating Association (SVISA). 

Erin earned her BA degree from University of California, Berkeley.