I study physical input devices as the ultimate bridge between humans and computers. My work pushes for a world where such devices, whether explicitly-designed or ad hoc, fit a specific user’s needs for a particular time, place, and task, culminating in deeply custom interfaces designed, fabricated, or simply picked up to solve a problem. My thesis research, supervised by Björn Hartmann, focused on digital fabrication and how we can leverage its potential to make prototyping input devices a faster and easier process: this culminated in my dissertation, entitled “Fabbed to Sense: Integrated Design of Geometry and Sensing for Interactive Objects.” A video of my thesis presentation is also available online. Thus I received my PhD from UC Berkeley in 2016. Earlier, I graduated from Indiana University in 2010 with a BS in Computer Science and a BA in Mathematics, and minors in Psychology and Spanish. I have interned at Adobe, Autodesk, and Marvell Semiconductor on various topics during my PhD. After graduating, I worked at Tactual Labs to use anatomical sensing as a way to turn passive objects into input devices.

Here at DIKU, I'm happy to supervise bachelor and master projects in my area of expertise (3D printing and digital fabrication, sensing, input device design, human-computer interaction). I also maintain a list of project ideas that you're welcome to look at; feel free to reach out to discuss these ideas or related ones! I love chatting about research.