About Me
I am a PhD Candidate in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at the MIT Media Lab in the Biomechatronics Group directed by Professor Hugh Herr. My main research interest is in the control of robotic prosthetics using myoelectric signal processing and machine learning. Outside of research I am involved with the Pacific Social Architechting Corporation as CTO and Advisor and am an Instructor for Developing World Prostheses, a course taught in the D-Lab at MIT. There I think about and develop projects around the various clinical, business, and social problems associated with disseminating prosthetics in the developing world.
Previously, I worked on pattern recognition and signal processing methods to reduce excessive shocks in pacemakers and defibrillators at Medtronic. Long before that I was researching some problems at the interface between fractal geometry and group theory and did some research in data visualization.
In the past , I was 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.