I specialize in combining design, engineering, and creative technology to make learning more accessible, visual, interactive, contextual, and delightful. My passion is making the invisible things visible through innovative design, research, and technology. My career began in sustainable design, but my doctoral research at Cambridge on the behavioral science of high-performing innovation teams convinced me to shift the focus of my design firm to data-driven product and UX design, learning design, and creative technology collaboration. My work has been featured in Kinfolk, MIT Museum, Museum of Science, RISD Museum, Thinkers50, Forbes, Boston Magazine, Harvard Business Review, Game Developer Conference, and numerous global outlets and conferences. I’ve brought products, services, and systems to life for Kering, Uber, Piaggio, MIT, Harvard, Brown and RISD, and created design research or programs with the City of Boston, City of Cape Town, Gucci, Puma, FIFA, Swarovski, Microsoft, Disney, Expedia, General Mills, Diageo, Tesco, Stanford, Knight Foundation, and more. I’ve received teaching awards, two technology patents, and made art held by prominent collectors.Since 2021, I run the joint Master of Arts in Design Engineering (MADE) Program at Brown University and Rhode Island School of Design, leveraging over a decade of international experience as a designer and educator. My background includes a Ph.D. from Cambridge, Visiting Scholar at Stanford, postdoc at MIT, and 10 years at Harvard's engineering faculty, where I co-created multidisciplinary design and engineering programs with Harvard's design and business schools.I am currently interested in combining visual and interactive interfaces with data in useful ways that either increase enjoyment or decrease drudgery. An example of increasing enjoyment is inspired by supertaster training, and I've been exploring how technology might help accelerate flavor fluency skill development. An early example is Chef League app, which I launched in 2019, that uses NLP and machine learning to teach novices how to intuitively combine flavors based on professional chef data. This research evolves with new tools. An example of decreasing drudgery is an AI grant-writing assistant that launched in 2022 that I co-designed in support of its mission.If you're passionate about innovative design and technology that enhances learning, motivation, and collaboration, let’s connect!