My scientific training and expertise is in the neural control of the abdominal viscera. My particular focus as a research scientist was the electrophysiology of the vagus and splanchnic nerves. I have over twenty years experience in the field, during which time I developed a number of novel experimental approaches, software tools, and analytical methods that led to unique insights about the neural coordination of visceral function. Through that work, I came to appreciate how much of what is important in the pattern of physiological coordination is obscured by the way we aggregate data.My scientific work ultimately led me to the view that the Western biomedical framework for understanding nervous control of physiological function was inadequate, and I became interested in the physiological insights of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). I gained an appreciation for TCM's approach to the nature of health and well-being. TCM concepts of the continuous interrelationship of organ functions had a great impact on my thinking about physiological coordination. I was also impressed that TCM had an elaborate and systematic practice based on relationships between somatic stimulation and visceral response, while in Western biomedical theory these have, since Langely's original description of the Autonomic Nervous System, been treated as largely unrelated.Recognizing the potential for mobile health monitoring combined with advanced data analytical methods to revolutionize the understanding of biology, and particularly the nature of well-being, in late 2013 I founded Ebullient Technologies, LLC, a company devoted to building tools to help those with insight about health and well-being explore those insights and promote the health of themselves and others.Specialties: Software development, neurogastroenterology, electrophysiology, autonomic neuroscience, "stress" biology, mind-body physiology.