Overview
Engineer, designer, and program leader with 15+ years of design experience, currently responsible for the Discovery phase of the Convergent Aeronautics Solutions project at NASA: ~40 people organized into design sprint teams exploring the intersection of aeronautics and other sectors like healthcare, agriculture, and sustainability to co-design futures with communities "for the benefit of all humankind."
Adjunct Professor and educator at heart having taught hands-on design, making, entrepreneurship, and critical inquiry courses since 2011. Developed and taught courses with roughly 750 professional, graduate, and undergraduate students at Duke, MIT, Stanford, and the University of San Diego in Mechanical Engineering, Management Science & Engineering, and a transdisciplinary Masters in Engineering, Sustainability, & Health (20+ terms of eight courses).
Researcher and ethnographer studying how people co-design across disciplinary, organizational, cultural, and human-AI boundaries with best paper awards from the Design Society, ASME Design Theory & Methodology Division, and ASEE Design Engineering Education Division.
Adjunct Professor and educator at heart having taught hands-on design, making, entrepreneurship, and critical inquiry courses since 2011. Developed and taught courses with roughly 750 professional, graduate, and undergraduate students at Duke, MIT, Stanford, and the University of San Diego in Mechanical Engineering, Management Science & Engineering, and a transdisciplinary Masters in Engineering, Sustainability, & Health (20+ terms of eight courses).
Researcher and ethnographer studying how people co-design across disciplinary, organizational, cultural, and human-AI boundaries with best paper awards from the Design Society, ASME Design Theory & Methodology Division, and ASEE Design Engineering Education Division.
Current Duke Appointments & Affiliations
Adjunct Associate Professor in the Engineering Graduate and Professional Programs
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2024 - Present
Engineering Graduate and Professional Programs,
Pratt School of Engineering
Recent Scholarly Works
Co-Design at the Boundary: Understanding the Dynamics of Open Innovation Between Companies and Communities
Journal article Journal of Product Innovation Management · July 1, 2026 For over two decades, firms have built platforms and engaged open innovation communities to improve and customize their products through widened participation in the design process. While the benefits of involving those outside a firm as co-designers have ... Full text CiteDeveloping Design Theory Using Large Language Model Agents: A Case Study of C-K Theory
Journal article Journal of Mechanical Design · July 1, 2026 Computational simulations have long been used for design and engineering analysis, but there is also a rich history of using simulations to develop design theory. The present work draws inspiration from design, management, psychology, and other fields that ... Full text CiteExtreme Design: An Editorial on a New Research Framework Within Engineering Design
Journal article Journal of Mechanical Design · December 1, 2025 Extreme design (XD) is a proposed research framework addressing engineering design’s outer edges of complexity and uncertainty. As the scale and urgency of global challenges grow, such as climate change, autonomous systems, and aging populations, so does t ... Full text CiteEducation
Stanford University ·
2022
M.A.
Stanford University ·
2022
Ph.D.
Stanford University ·
2018
M.S.
Ohio State University ·
2009
B.S.