I'm a PhD candidate in the Computational Design Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon University.  My research examines the design of complex systems that exhibit emergent behavior. I also do work relating to the science of design, human-robot interaction, micro and modular robotics, and constructionist learning. Specifically, I build modular robotic systems like roBlocks that let people create and design within complex systems of their own.

This spring I'm back in Pittsburgh working on roBlocks and the Graphmaster kit. I defended my thesis proposal on April 15 and am beginning work on the Erstwhile Agent, an evolutionary design program for modular robotic constructions. I was recently at RSS 2007 in Atlanta, Creativity & Cognition 2007 in Washington DC, DIGITEL in Taiwan (photos) and TEI 2008 in Bonn. roBlocks was just featured on local TV and in the O'Reilly Radar blog.