I’m a PhD candidate in the Integrated Design Innovation Group within the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, advised by Dr. Jonathan Cagan.
My work at Carnegie Mellon is highly multi-disciplinary and combines engineering, design, cognitive psychology, and business to inform the design process. I am passionate about understanding how people think about and interact with products and services. In my research I use multiple quantitative and qualitative tools to accomplish this. Right now I am exploring multi-attribute decision making involving sustainability in both product preference judgments and product design using a variety of research techniques, involving functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).
Previously, I received a B.A. in Physics from Occidental College in 2011, and a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 2014. I am the recipient of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and the 2014 ASME IDETC Design Theory and Methodology Best Paper Award. I also spent time working in industry at Apogee Electronics.