Refashion: Reconfigurable Garments via Modular Design
How can we design garments for change and reuse? By reimagining garments as dynamic assemblies rather than static products, Refashion enables users to remix their garments on demand.
I design computational systems for thinking, making, and playing. My research explores where computation meets craft and math meets material, building systems that produce forms you can feel, transform, and wonder through.
I am a PhD student at MIT CSAIL, advised by Erik Demaine. I previously worked with Zach Lieberman at the MIT Media Lab. My work is supported by the MIT MAD Design Fellowship, the NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship, and the MIT Stata Family Presidential Fellowship.
My time at MIT is a collage of research, teaching, art-making, and collecting words.
Before MIT, I was advised by the wonderful Will Evans, Craig Kaplan, Alla Sheffer, and Nick Harvey.
Updates
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Several of my favorite art pieces, including Disintegrating and Yearning, will be displayed in the mathematics department at UC Santa Cruz.
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I'll be at Roblox in San Mateo this summer as a Research Scientist Intern.
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My exhibition Encoding-Decoding Constellations will be on display at the Wiesner Gallery from December 2025 through January 2026. Check out this article about my work and process.
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all these things i want to tell you, and yet i can't find the words is appearing at MathFest 2025.
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Incredibly grateful to be named a 2025 MAD Design Fellow!
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Spiraling will be on display at public art exhibition Intersections (featured on KING5 Evening) and presented at Bridges 2025 in Eindhoven, Netherlands.
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Disintegrating received an honorable mention at the JMM 2025 Art Exhibition, was featured in the New York Times, and selected for the American Mathematical Society's 2026 calendar!
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Joining Future Sketches at the Media Lab in Fall 2024!
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Demoing a proof of concept, Routing Reconfigurations, at SCF 2024 in Aarhus, Denmark.
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Interning at Adobe Research in San Francisco with Mackenzie Leake.
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Presenting my paper Graph Threading at ITCS 2024 in Berkeley, CA.
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Visiting the Origami Lab at the University of Tokyo this summer!
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I'm starting my PhD at MIT in Fall 2022. Grateful to my advisors Will Evans, Craig Kaplan, Alla Sheffer, et al. for fostering my curiosity and creativity, and for their advocacy.
Systems
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.
Encoding-Decoding Constellations
How can we create constellation patterns with unconventional star arrangements? By representing constellations as mathematical graphs, we reveal an alternative language for reasoning about and creating constellations.
Artifacts
Teaching
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MIT: Preparation for Undergraduate Research (20 hours/week)
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MIT: Design and Analysis of Algorithms (20 hours/week)
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MIT: Design and Analysis of Algorithms (20 hours/week)
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MIT: Design and Analysis of Algorithms (20 hours/week)
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MIT: Fundamentals of Programming (20 hours/week)
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UBC: Intermediate Algorithm Analysis and Design (12 hours/week)
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UBC: Basic Algorithms and Data Structures (12 hours/week)
Words & Images
- a five-month lyric episode: little life lab notes / trace logs of the heart
- comics and graphic vignettes
- concrete and visual poetry