I've committed a career to the concepts and uniqueness of Cybernetics, it's the core of my practice

CMU grad student, Design Researcher at Lab 4 Cybernetics. Experience building prototypes across digital products, spatial design, and physical computing using rapid prototyping methods.

Supporting cross-disciplinary education and stakeholders Art x technology in creative technology/new media Supporting pedagogical responses to new technologies Understanding and documenting tacit knowledge Maintaining [Quality Education] considering the proliferation of generative AI technologies [Reduced Inequalities] brought on by inequitable access to technology and technology-as-amplifier [Responsible Consumption and Production] given the environmental impact of generative AI development

Health technology + disability justice + participatory design Ethical and Responsible assistive tech/AI/digital health systems Community-based participatory research (CBPR) Ethical innovation & inclusive design Related SDGs: SDG 3 (Good Health & Well-being), SDG 10 (Reduced Inequalities), SDG 9 (Industry, Innovation & Infrastructure), and SDG 16 (Inclusive Institutions)

Aging & Elder Care Systems Invisible & Reproductive Labor Political Economy of Care Culture of Optimization in Healthcare Human Value Beyond Productivity & Optimization Radical Aging & New Futures for Growing Old

The core of this domain explores the development of the internet and social platforms from their origins to today. The transformation from non-curated collections of human expression into billion dollar industries that utilize algorithmic tools trained on user data to predict and control future behavior. These tools not only automate information flows about us, but automate us. This theory comes primarily from "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" by Shoshana Zuboff which I have been diving into recently, which argues that these tools do not merely automate information flows about us, but that they automate us. One thing she emphasizes is the "unprecedented" nature of surveillance capitalism, how humans have a habit of understanding the new through the familiar: the first cars were called "horseless carriages," taking old terms and using them to describe something new. She argues that that is what we are doing with surveillance capitalism, using existing vocabulary around privacy, monopoly, and regulation which were created to describe a different world, this leads us to pursuing inadequate interventions. Zuboff reframes the user in the system, arguing that the user is not the product itself, but the source material. Extraction from that source happens well before we see the product. Crucially the behavioral surplus isn't simply observed, but it is altered and manipulated. Every interface decision, every engagement mechanic, every notification is designed to generate richer and more predictable data. The customer is not the user, it is really the companies purchasing predictions about our future behavior. How do we return agency to the user, and is it possible to build a mutual transaction between users and the platforms they inhabit? What does agency even mean inside a system designed to predict and shape behavior? What would structural change actually require?

The domain at the core of my practices is thoughtfully and intentionally building tools for cognitive offloading & enhancement to allow people to keep pace with that which the world we've built demands of us without unduly eroding core competencies underlying the enhanced capability.

My interest in this domain comes from seeing how migration decisions are shaped by both structural demand for labor and personal aspirations for stability. Transnational labor systems in care and agriculture are essential to economies, yet they can place workers in positions where opportunity and vulnerability coexist. I’m interested in examining these systems because they affect families, remittance flows, and long-term life trajectories. My concern is with how recruitment pathways, visa structures, and labor demand interact to produce conditions that can either support or constrain worker agency. For me, understanding this domain is important because it offers a way to think about how essential labor systems might be structured more equitably while still meeting global workforce needs.

The core domain of my research is study the architecture and design systems of waste, sustainability, and circular economy frameworks. My work investigates how design contributes to a “broken metabolism,” where resources are extracted, consumed, and discarded without returning to natural cycles. I am particularly interested in how architectural thinking, product design, and urban systems can shift this linear process toward a circular and regenerative model, where materials are reused, repaired, and reintegrated into the system rather than becoming waste.

The core domain of my research is study the architecture and design systems of waste, sustainability, and circular economy frameworks. My work investigates how design contributes to a “broken metabolism,” where resources are extracted, consumed, and discarded without returning to natural cycles. I am particularly interested in how architectural thinking, product design, and urban systems can shift this linear process toward a circular and regenerative model, where materials are reused, repaired, and reintegrated into the system rather than becoming waste.

Infrastructural inequality in postcolonial planned cities. Spatial erasure of minority labor communities. Informal settlements as systemic products, not exceptions. Decolonising British caste discrimination embedded in Pakistani urbanism. SDG 10 (Reduced Inequalities), SDG 11 (Sustainable Cities), SDG 16 (Peace, Justice, Strong Institutions)