Assistant Professor
Directing the Entangled Ecologies Lab
University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 2025- present
Postdoctoral Fellow
Advisor: Leah Buechley, Hand and Machine Lab
University of New Mexico, 2023-2025
PhD in Creative Technology & Design
Thesis: “Biomaterials for More-Than-Human Futures”
Advisor: Mirela Alistar, Living Matter Lab
University of Colorado at Boulder, 2020-2023
BSc in Mechanical Engineering
Thesis: “The Seedling Sanctuary”
Advisors: Jessica Kuczenski and Hohyun Lee
Santa Clara University, 2015-2019
Publications
Google Scholar Profile
Awards
2025 - Best Pictorial for Biomaterial Recipes for 3D Printing at ACM TEI
2025 - Best Paper Honorable Mention for ColdGlass at ACM CHI
2024 - Rising Star in EECS
2024 - Best Pictorial for Bio-Digital Calendar at ACM TEI
2024 - Interactivity Jury Honorable Mention for Hand and Machine Demo at ACM CHI
2024 - Interactivity Popular Choice Honorable Mention for Hand and Machine Demo at ACM CHI
2023 - Best Pictorial for SCOBY Breastplate at ACM TEI
2023 - Best Paper Honorable Mention for µMe at ACM DIS
2022 - Best Paper Honorable Mention for ReClaym our Compost at ACM CHI
2022 - Interactivity Popular Choice Honorable Mention for Biomaterial Playground at ACM CHI
2021 - Inspiration Award for Undyeing Swatch at the ACM TEI Student Design Competition
Teaching
2025 - Instructor at Anderson Ranch Arts Center for Lighting Design with Biomaterials (Co-Instructor: Adrien Segal)
2023 - Teaching Assistant at CU Boulder for ATLS 5440: Design Studio (Lead Instructor: Jeffrey Harriman)
2022 - Teaching Assistant at CU Boulder for ATLS 5440: Design Studio (Lead Instructor: Justin Gitlin)
2020 - Teaching Assistant at CU Boulder for ATLS 2000: The Meaning of Information Technology (Lead Instructor: Annie Margaret)
Exhibitions
2025 - Living Matter, Shaping Futures at BioBAT Art Space, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2025 - Currents Art & Technology Festival at El Museo Cultural, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
2025 - Woven Skies at Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
2024 - Hindsight Insight 5.0 at the University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
2024 - GUI/GOOEY at Plexus Projects, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2024 - Currents Art & Technology Festival at El Museo Cultural, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
2024 - Into the Realms of Possibility at Fuller Lodge Art Center, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
Press
2025 - A recipe for sustainable 3D printing
2024 - CeraMetal lets you print metal, cheaply and easily
2024 - The Opening of Hindsight Insight 5.0
2024 - Hand and Machine Lab researchers showcase work at Hawaii conference
2023 - CU Boulder student creates clothing from kombucha
2023 - Sustainable Prototyping Practices — Spotlight: Living Matter Lab
2023 - Kombucha chic: How one student uses microbes, and time, to grow her own clothes
2022 - Intimacy between designers and materials leads to sustainability
2022 - Interview: Cooking with mycelium
2021 - ATLAS students fill in community STEM gaps through new outreach team
2021 - Eight ATLAS researchers receive Graduate School awards
2021 - ATLAS PhD students take home top Student Design Awards from TEI’21
2020 - ATLAS grad student assists Accenture Labs with development of self-cleaning textiles
2020 - Shapeshifting: The varied applications for bioplastics