I really enjoy creative problem solving and am motivated by the excitement of learning new things. My favorite projects get people to think about old things in new ways.
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ABOUT ME
Founder, Loud Bicycle LLC
Our mission at Loud Bicycle is to increase safety for people biking. We make car horns for bikes. Loud Bicycle has been funded by generous backers in two Kickstarter projects [1], [2] To read more about this project see our website, Facebook page, blog, or sign up for the Loud Bicycle newsletter.
Data scientist
My most recent data scientist positions have been at consumer health and fitness startups that are commercializing technology from MIT and Harvard. See more about them on my LinkedIn profile.
Trustee, the Awesome Foundation
We award $1,000 grants every month, no strings attached, in the name of forwarding the interest of 'Awesome' in the universe. I have been a trustee of the Boston awesome chapter since October 2011 and am really proud of all the awesome fellows we have helped. If you submitted a grant application you think I will love, please contact me to be sure that I see it.
Facilitator, the Metropolitan Waterworks Museum
I used to volunteer at the waterworks museum starting before the museum opened in March 2011. See a working educational demo prototype that explains both the history and physics of how Boston gets its clean water here.
M.A. in Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University
My research in BU's Active Perception Lab was about the power spectrum of input to the retina given small eye movements. See more here
B.S. in Applied Mathematics from the New Jersey Institute of Technology
My research at NJIT was about the probabilities of internet search results and computational linguistics. Read more about that here
Art
Every so often, things I do come close to art. If turning a piece of geometrical reasoning into a fancy drawing only takes some extra shading, I’ll do it!
If turning a beautiful physics experiment into something you could hang in your living room requires switching up the pens here and there, I’ll do that too!
See more about my art in the
publications page.
Travel
When I visit a country that speaks a language I don't know, I have a local teach me to say "thank you" and "nice to meet you" then I endeavor to say them as much as possible. I absolutely love to travel and like to make the most of my business trips. I have been to 46 US states, 5 Canadian provinces and a decent number of countries in Europe and Asia.
Music
I used to say that I can't really play the guitar, or piano . . . but I can fake it if there are no real musicians around. I still fake the piano but I have since gotten much better at guitar.
I can play my hands like a flute. Ask me to play a song and I'll show you. I can also play a few notes or whistles on basically any thin pipe. A few examples: PVC piping, soda cans, ziti and on most of the components in a modern pen.