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Art and industrial design

Here’s a fun fact: in addition to a Master’s degree in Biomedical Engineering from Brown University, I have a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Industrial Design from Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

Long before I ever considered myself an engineer, I was a professional industrial designer. Long before that, I was an artist. Those parts of me still live on today and they inform how I engineer and how I teach:

  1. You are not your work.
  2. Effective ideas address burning curiosities.
  3. Follow the winding path, and explore potentiality.
  4. Documentation is proof of life.
  5. Well-designed things are beautiful and people choose beautiful things.


My creative practice centers on exploring how people interact with and mediate the tangible technology of the world around them.

My design practice centered on making money to buy food and pay rent but the clients that I felt great about growing were those that sought to build human capacity through technology.