I'm a PhD student in EECS at MIT, advised by Erik Demaine in CSAIL. I was also fortunate to work with Zach Lieberman at the Media Lab.
I develop mathematical abstractions and computational tools that facilitate new ways of thinking and making. I'm often drawn to dialogues between computation and craft, and to building systems that invite agency, expression, and play.
My time at MIT is a collage of research, art, and teaching.
My work has been generously supported by the MIT MAD Design Fellowship, the NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship, and the MIT Stata Family Presidential Fellowship.
My research explores alternative representations of visual and material systems and how they shape what we can imagine and create. I build systems around these representations, inviting users to understand and play with the constraints and possibilities they introduce.
My published work spans human–computer interaction, computer graphics, theoretical computer science, and art, with a full list of publications available on Google Scholar. While I publish in academic venues, I am equally drawn to alternative research outcomes, and have found homes for my ideas in artworks, creative tools, and educational resources.
How can we design garments for change and reuse? By reimagining garments as dynamic assemblies rather than static products, Refashion enables users to resize, restyle, and remix their garments on demand.
How can we create constellations with unconventional star arrangements? By representing constellation patterns as mathematical graphs, we gain an alternative language for imagining and creating constellations.
My art practice explore how simple shapes, through combination and variation, can evolve into intricate patterns, textures, and forms. Mathematics and computation serve as key languages in my processes; their vocabularies—like those of any natural language—open new ways of thinking and making. While my artifacts emerge from mathematical and computational representations, they are grounded in physical making, often in collaboration with machines such as laser cutters, and finished by hand—draped and sewn, or meticulously assembled.
I have taught extensively at MIT and UBC, with a focus on algorithm design and analysis, primarily at the advanced undergraduate level. Outside of academia, I design and teach computational art classes for middle and high school students. Through drawing with code, I hope these classes help reshape perceptions of who programmers are and what programs can do.
I have begun to write poems—little life lab notes.
