I am currently involved in research as a PhD student under Dr. Norman I. Badler at the University of Pennsylvania. My current research project involves Virtual Reality in large, crowded environments using motion captured locomotion as a means for input. In the past I have been briefly involved in research to improve human-robot communication and also physically-accurate lighting of ship interiors using the Radiance raytraced renderer.
In the summer of 2007 I participated in a National Science Foundation funded Research Experience for Undergraduates at DePauw University. I worked on a research project which involved implementing a programming language for the use of helping in the teaching of functional programming languages to students. The project had a code basis already written at the beginning of the summer, but my group decided to rewrite from the ground up. Our research led to the development of multimedia libraries for use in an IDE to teach functional programming using a mixed-paradigm language and multimedia features. The results of the research were published at a regional undergraduate research conference.
The various natural sciences are hobby interests of mine, particularly physics. To me, physics is the science of how everything works, and I’ve always wanted to know just that.