Yafira Martinez is a NYC-based design engineer and creative technologist with a B.S. in Computer Science and a master's from NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP). Through her independent creative practice, Electrocute Lab, she explores what she calls poetronics — treating electronics with the sensibility of a poem. Working across hardware and software, she combines physical computing, embedded systems, soft circuits, and generative text to create experiences that invite curiosity, reflection, and play.

Drawing on the histories of computing and craft, she questions what computers should look like and how people engage with them, creating tactile, approachable technology that blurs the boundary between tool, artwork, and interface.