I am a physicist, a computational scientist, an inventor, and an educator with a passion to explore how research tools and methods developed and used by scientists and engineers can be harnessed as effective learning tools to meet pressing challenges in science, engineering, and technical education to solve critical social and environmental problems. As research and education share the same goal of understanding how the world works and finding solutions to build a better world, there is no reason that a research tool built for diverse applications cannot be used to educate, inspire, and empower people in diverse settings.

For example, infrared thermal imaging is a compelling demonstration of how an advanced technology developed by the industry to solve engineering problems can be harnessed as an effective learning technology to solve educational problems. Computational physics provides digital representations of natural phenomena by solving their governing equations numerically, allowing engines of inquiry to be built for virtual design and experimentation. Computational science is also key to creating artificial intelligence that advances personalized learning, the number one among the fourteen grand challenges for engineering in the 21st century as identified by the National Academy of Engineering of the United States.

In 2020, I founded the Institute for Future Intelligence (IFI) to pursue the above goal. Please feel free to contact me if you are interested in collaborating with IFI.

My summer workstation in an infrared eye