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At Good Owners, we work to address the endemic and growing challenge of limited dog owner education. We do so by providing owners, rescues, shelters, breeders, and trainers - as well as landlords, hotels, Airbnbs, insurance companies, and others - with a series of innovative tools to support dog owners on their learning journey, ensure they have a baseline familiarity with core concepts, and assess their commitment to responsible dog handling.

Co-founder of Purlwise Labs (purlwiselabs.com), an MIT-backed venture that created the first digital assistant, powered by machine vision, for the $170 bn Consumer Craft industry, starting with the $33 bn US hobbyist knitter space.Together with our team of engineers, designers, and crafters, we:• Recruited over 2,000 customer-volunteers to build robust 1M-object-strong training set• Successfully developed first-of-its-kind machine vision algorithm to assist knitters in counting stitches (a top-2 pain point for over 70% of consumers)• Developed, tested, and launched iOS and Android mobile apps that deployed the algorithm in a seamless, intuitive user-assisted AI process to help knitters track their stitches - see video at purlwiselabs.com• Secured endorsements and formal partnerships with 7 of the largest industry brandsProject put on hold when insurmountable technical hurdles emerged to achieving the target 'one-touch' solution (as opposed to user-assisted) necessary to realize the market demand.

MIT Presidential Fellow, Department of Defense NDSEG Fellow

Led investigations in low-temperature, ultra-high vacuum self-assembly of molecules on surfaces, producing 4 peer-review publications and 8 research and scholastic awards