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 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 Publications
Extreme 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 CiteDesign logic visualizations as boundary objects in design
Conference Proceedings of the Design Society · August 1, 2025 Design teams commonly need to explain the rationale or logic behind how they frame design challenges and develop a particular design concept and not others. This paper explores the use of Design Logic Visualizations (DLV) as a boundary object to enhance un ... Full text CiteBuilding Resilience in Aviation: Economic Impacts of Disasters and Future Adaptations
Conference AIAA Aviation Forum and Ascend 2025 · January 1, 2025 This paper examines typical disruptions to aviation caused by natural disasters. While there are many disruptions that impact aviation, this paper will primarily cover flooding, severe weather storms, extreme temperatures, and clear air turbulence across t ... Full text CiteEducation, Training & Certifications
Stanford University ·
2022
M.A.
Stanford University ·
2022
Ph.D.
Stanford University ·
2018
M.S.
Ohio State University ·
2009
B.S.