MIT + Media Lab
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the MIT Media Lab in particular, is the epicenter of art, design, and technology. I've had the privilege of both learning from and documenting the brilliant people and research done at these institutions — from my own graduate research in lower-limb prosthetic sockets to editing scientific publications to photographing legendary commencement events.
MIT + Media Lab Website
Photography
Portrait Photography
I have photographed the incoming Media Arts & Sciences graduate students for three years.
At right is a selection of headshots of the Media Arts and Sciences graduate program, taken with an Olympus OMD EM1 ii + M. Zuiko 12-40 mm lens in a mix of natural lighting and studio softboxes, lightly edited in Adobe Lightroom CC.
Documentary Photography
The MIT Media Lab has also kindly invited me to capture visiting scholars, community events, and documentary spotlights of their groundbreaking projects, students, staff, and faculty. A few highlights include a seminar with author and activist Roxane Gay, annual commencement celebrations, and a feature on graduate researchers.
Technical Editing
Passion for communication, efficiency, and some level of structure — grounded in a foundation in science, technology, and engineering — enables me to provide valuable feedback on both organization and basic copyediting principles for technical publications. I’ve reviewed patent applications, editorials, doctoral dissertations, and journal articles on subjects ranging from additive manufacturing to architecture to biopolymers.
Clients include the MIT Mediated Matter Group.
Before
While fiber-reinforced composites (FRC) are well known in the aerospace and automotive industries for their light-weight, high-performance capabilities, they are less commonly used in construction. FRCs consist of a fiber, such as fiberglass or carbon fiber, that provides strength, and a binding agent, such as UV- or thermally- curing resins. The fiber and resin mixture is molded, cured, and removed from the mold.
These materials have only recently been used in building facades [1] and structural applications such as bridges [2]. This is partially due to an addition of regulatory protocols for fiber-based composites in the International Building Code in 2009 [3]. Mimicking natural fibrous systems, such as those in trees or arthropod shells [4], some groups are interested in exploiting fiber alignment in a hierarchical fashion to gain additional strength and flexibility in various conditions [5]. However molds limit geometry and are expensive to make and maintain. To automate FRC construction a method that allows fabrication of varying geometries without sophisticated infrastructure is sought.
After
While fiber-reinforced composites (FRC) are well-known in the aerospace and automotive industries for their lightweight, high-performance capabilities, they are less commonly used in construction. FRCs consist of a strengthening fiber, such as fiberglass or carbon fiber, and a binding agent, such as UV- or thermally- curing resins. These materials have only recently been used in building facades [1] and structural applications such as bridges [2]. The slow adoption is partially due to the addition of regulatory protocols for fiber-based composites in the International Building Code in 2009 [3].
Natural fibrous systems, such as those in trees or arthropod shells [4], are of interest to some research groups because they exploit fiber alignment in a hierarchical fashion to gain additional strength and flexibility in various conditions [5]. However, the molds required to create these systems are geometrically-constrained and expensive to make and maintain. A process that allows fabrication of more complex geometries without sophisticated infrastructure is the key to automating FRC construction.
Submitted to Science Robotics.
