About Me
I am a doctoral student at the MIT Media Lab interested rehabilitation and augmentation devices that utilize intelligent biophysical reasonsing to improve the quality of life for a variety of disorders. In particular, I am interested in studying which features of autism spectrum disorders will be most useful in predicting related movement disorders.
During the summer of 2009, I will be at the Cardiac Rhythm Disease Managment Center at Medtronic developing algorithms for the prediction of arrhythmia and tachycardia.
My previous S.M. work focused on the control of the human body through two transient motions. In particular rapid accelerations and abrupt turns that admit a representation in a latent space, that are the primitive spaces, that allow the development of center of mass balance controllers for humanoid robots.
As an undergraduate, I pursued a degree in mathematics from Bard College at Simon's Rock (was Simon's Rock College). I focused mostly on differential geometry, topology, and analysis.
After my undergraduate degree, I spent the next two years doing computer vision research at the Microsystems Technology Laboratory, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, information visualization at the Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, and developing data-mining algorithms for wirelss sensor networks wtih the Media and Design Laboratory at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.
In my spare time I enjoy reading, mathematics, and spending time at WMBR radio, frisbee, squash, hiking, and cycling.