I research new technologies and tools used by multidisciplinary human-centered design teams. I am also interested in the role that sustainability plays in early-stage design, both in balancing the users’ and designers’ values with respect to sustainability, and in using sustainability as a source of inspiration for innovation.

I am currently a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the in|situ lab at INRIA Saclay Ile-de-France, working with Wendy Mackay. My current work looks at how collaborating designers interact with digital designs and physical artifacts through digital fabrication.

I have a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley (December 2012). I am an alumna of the Berkeley Institute of Design (BiD) and the BEST Lab.  My primary research advisor was Alice Agogino (ME); I also collaborated on research projects with Sara Beckman (Haas/Business) and Björn Hartmann (EECS/HCI).

I have a B.S. (2006) in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University, where I did undergraduate research at the Center for Design Research. I also have a M.S. (2008) in Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley. I was a very active member of the Berkeley design community: I was the graduate student advisor to Berkeley Innovation, helped form the Human-Centered Design Course Thread at the Townsend Center for the Humanities, and advised Haas’ Design Innovation and Strategy Club (DISC). I am a former editor-in-chief of Ambidextrous Magazine, a Stanford-based design magazine.