selected work
sustainable systems
Emerald
Personal bioreactor with an automated system to grow and harvest spirulina algae that anyone can use at home.
IDM Grow lab
The Grow Lab is the first and only garden/green space in IDM/NYU, offering students, faculty and visitors an opportunity to learn about AgTech through the vertical hydroponic garden, germination station, and interactive display.
Biodesign in space
What does farming in space look like? This project explores a symbiome designed to create a closed loop bio-regenerative system that promotes harmonious cohabitation among humans, fungi, and microorganism.
circular economies with material Provenance
A DNA-based data encoding system to track substance flows worldwide, the Material Provenance Project organization helps to support sustainable practices by providing insight into the provenance, properties, and journeys of materials.
multisensory interfaces
Microbial Memories
Microbiome as cultural archive—based on the emerging science linking microbiomes to terroir in wine and food, anyone can use environmental metagenomics to capture the complexities of a time and place to create the potential for novel experiences of flavor.
Wearable olfactory interface
Planning a dinner party in space? Aromata is a personal wearable olfactory interface with a modular system that leverages synthetic biology to enhance the food experience for astronauts, by safely and conveniently producing aroma compounds on demand.
Affective Haptics
An investigation into the convergence of neuroscience, music theory, and haptic technology as a method to communicate and evoke emotions through tactile feedback
interactive hologram
Interactive audiovisual 3D hologram, made with WebGL, Processing, and Leap Motion for gesture control.
Community & Leadership
global community bio
Fellow: GCBS Fellowship 3.0
Facilitator: Interplanetary Synbio Workshop
Speaker: MIT Olfaction Conference
Biodesign challenge
genspace
Instructor: Microbial memories