About

“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious”

- Albert Einstein
I attended the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD, where I studied for two years before transferring to George Mason University. While at GMU, I worked full-time for Apple, Inc. as a Business Consultant and later for Marriott International as a Technology Analyst. I transferred one last time, this time to James Madison University, where I completed my B.S. in Geographic Science while doing some remote research for the US Army Corps of Engineers.

Upon graduation, I worked for the USACE within their Topographic Engineering Center, a federal research laboratory focused on geospatial research. There, I served as a Principal Investigator, exploring methods of autonomously classifying vegetation from unmanned ground vehicles. I also moonlighted as a programmer for the US Army Geospatial Center where I helped develop a web application capable of serving up high-resolution, 360°, street level imagery, similar to Google’s Street View™.

Currently, I’m a student at the MIT Media Lab. Along with Alex Simoes and Shahar Ronen, I’m working in César Hidalo’s Macro Connections group developing analytical tools, like Place Pulse, that help cull knowledge from large data sets.

In my down time, I enjoy taking photographs, running along the Charles River and when I have a case of insomnia, watching TV (Burn Notice and Dexter). During the summers, I either travel around the world or backpack into the wilderness, my favorite spots being Florence, Italy and the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California.