PHYSICIST · ENGINEER · BUILDER · EDUCATOR
I make hard technology, and make it usable.
Over a decade building and teaching across physics, space, immersive reality, robotics, and AI across university labs, small business, and enterprise scale. Now AI Enablement Lead at Zillow and founder of Chaotic Curiosity.
For the benefit of Earth and the diversity of its inhabitants.
AI is powerful enough to change everything. I choose to use it for good causes.
It is not enough to focus on building alone - we must share what we build with others.
What I've been working on lately.
The most recent, highest-impact work: from two live satellite-intelligence demos that turn Earth-observation imagery into priced economic signals, to enterprise AI adoption and humanoid robots that learn to move.
The Power Draw: nowcasting the AI buildout from space
A terminal-style alternative-data demo: five AI data-center megasites read from open Sentinel-2 imagery, with new building footprint turned into ~1.1 GW of capacity and ~$13B of capex coming online: the physical-economy signal that power, utility, and commodity desks trade on. Includes a real embeddings engine for semantic search-by-example using RemoteCLIP (a satellite fine-tuned image model).
Ground Truth: forty years of Earth
An interactive build on Planet Labs' platform: forty years of satellite imagery turned into the economic signal in the pixels (surface water, forest loss, urban growth), each tied to the customer who trades on it, closing on a Landsat 30 m vs Planet 3 m gold-mining reveal.
regolith: Lunar Hazard Segmentation from Synthetic Data
An end-to-end physical-AI pipeline on a single NVIDIA DGX Spark: a domain-randomized synthetic lunar dataset (OpenUSD + Omniverse Replicator) trains a SegFormer hazard segmenter, capped by a cinematic RTX flythrough with NASA's VIPER rover. Moving fidelity from the rocks to the ground cut the real-world false-positive rate from 72.6% to 35.7%.
AI Enablement at Zillow
Own enterprise adoption and quality for a 2,700-person technical org. Highlight: Increased agentic tooling adoption from 30 to >75% over two months in Product and Design orgs, with time savings across administrative and production workflows.
Humanoid Robotics (RL)
Sim-to-real cartwheels, backflips, and walking policies on a Unitree H2 EDU with Pooladvand Lab at ASU using Isaac Lab, NVIDIA GR00T, and MuJoCo.
Museum XR: Afrobotica & Earthlight
I brought Afrobotica, the character of astronaut-artist Dr. Sian Proctor to life in an immersive planetarium dome experience built for the Museum of Science, Boston.
Image → 3D Pipeline for Kiewit Construction Safety Training
A pipeline that turns a single site photo into clean, rigged 3D for safety training.
Space at Blue Origin
XR/AI tooling across every vehicle program, scaled to the entire company of 12,000+ users. Decentralized, multi-location VR/AR capabilities and AI Enablement for teams.
HoloLens 2 AR Moon Education
In collaboration with Jordan Space Research Institute, we deployed an augmented reality educational experience about the phases of the moon on the HoloLens 2 platform.
Depth and breadth.
Five technical domains plus a decade of teaching, each its own world of work.
AI
Powerful enough to change everything. I choose to use it for good.
Explore AI →Space
Built the tools to get things off this planet.
Explore Space →XR
Digital things in real places.
Explore XR →Robotics
Teaching machines to move.
Explore Robotics →Physics
The operating system of the universe.
Explore Physics →Education
Learning is built, not delivered.
Explore Education →Beyond
The rest of me.
Music, activism & life →
My studio: Chaotic Curiosity
A boutique studio building XR, AI, robotics, and media for museums, universities, startups, and research labs. It's where a lot of this work actually happens.
Visit chaoticcuriosity.io ↗
Let's build something.
Open to roles where I help organizations adopt frontier AI safely and well (enablement, customer success, technical program and engineering leadership, and the hands-on building behind them) and to a good conversation about hard problems that matter.