I am an Assistant Professor of Engineering at Olin College and Guest Investigator at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. My research work focuses on building robotic tools to take scientifically useful actions in extreme environments (like the deep sea, coral reefs, or coastal estuaries) to improve our collective understanding of and interaction with nature. My teaching centers on creating authentic, problem-driven, interactive projects that foster both skill mastery and critical contemplation on the definitions of "robots" and "intelligence."Prior to my current role, I was a postdoctoral researcher at Northeastern University in the Field Robotics Laboratory. I earned my PhD in Autonomous Systems in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program with a focus on the development of intelligent regimes for smart, often robotic, ocean instrumentation. My work was funded by a Martin Fellowship for Sustainability, and I am a 2017 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellow. Prior to starting my degree, I graduated from Olin College of Engineering with a B.S. in Robotic Systems, worked for a handful of companies including Uber ATC and Ivani LLC, and spent a year as a Fulbright Student Researcher in Tallinn, Estonia working on autonomous underwater robotics at the Centre for Biorobotics.Feel free to get in touch with me!