Rehmi Post is a Ph.D. candidate at the MIT Media Laboratory in the Physics and Media group directed by Neil Gershenfeld.

His academic career started as a Kelly Scholar at the University of Maryland, where he helped implement a large multicomputer architecture under the direction of Charles Rieger and Mark Weiser.

In a subsequent tour of the computer software industry he developed compilers and interpreters for distributed computing environments and contributed to the first commercial TCP/IP protocol suite for MS-DOS.

A growing interest in physics led him to return to school at the University of Massachusetts where he studied condensed-matter systems and worked at the Tuominen Nanostructures Lab developing superconducting "single-electron" or Coulomb blockade devices while obtaining the B.Sc. in Physics with honors.

As an Interval Fellow at the Media Lab, he earned an M.Sc. for the development of e-broidery, a means of fabricating electronic circuitry on wash-and-wear textile substrates. Examples of his pioneering work in this field have appeared widely in museum collections, including a long-term loan to the Wellcome Wing of London's Museum of Science.

His interest in digital electrometry and the inverse electrostatic problem led to a collaboration with Terence Riley at New York's Museum of Modern Art. For the "Unprivate House" exhibition, Rehmi integrated his work on gesture-sensitive computer interfaces into a giant interactive table installation. This installation has garnered numerous awards, (including a Silver Medal in I.D. Magazine's Interactive Media Design Review 2000) for "its social dynamic and its capacity to integrate technology into a domestic space."

Rehmi's research foci at the Media Lab are on inertial sensing, dynamics of micro- and mesoscale systems, and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). In spare time he and Matt Reynolds are developing the hardware of the Pengachu pocket Linux server to help bring affordable open-source/open-hardware computing and wired/wireless networking infrastructure to users and communities around the world.