Research

Papers, policy work, and research topics — formal and informal.

Papers & Publications

• Discovery Fundamental Units: Towards A Nested Framework of Templates for Convergent Innovation — with Ariella Knight, Eric Reynolds Brubaker, Shaunté Kinch, Rachel Moore Best, Kathleen Bond, Nicole Fichera, Mark Meadows, Meghan Stancliff, David Wagner, Chris Wohl, Vikram Shyam , NASA Technical Memorandum (NASA/TM-20250002378) , 2025

  A modular framework for convergent innovation using adaptable templates — cards, canvases, and reports — to foster multidisciplinary collaboration and tackle complex societal challenges across NASA and beyond.

• Human-AI Collaboration Among Engineering and Design Professionals: Three Strategies of Generative AI Use — with Kevin Ma, George Moore, Vikram Shyam, Kosa Goucher-Lambert, Eric Reynolds Brubaker , ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC-CIE), Washington, DC , 2024

  Ethnographic study of a NASA design team revealing three emergent strategies of generative AI use among professional engineers and designers: intimate co-design, selective delegation, and minimal use.

• Aviation 2072: Scenario Planning for Wicked Problems — with Vikram Shyam, Dyan Finkhousen, Jon Rask, Kelci Skaggs, Trevor Grondin, Richard Walsh, G. Edward Powell, Joel Lachter, Marco Annunziata, Thomas Cooke , NASA Technical Memorandum (E-20124) , 2023

  Scenario planning methodology — developed through the MADNESS workshops — applied to aviation's hardest long-horizon challenges, mapping threats and opportunities across a 50-year horizon to inform NASA strategic investment.

• CAS Mapping — Helping Aviation Find Problems Worth Solving — with Jennifer Amador, Brian Boogaard, Karl Bilimoria, Ricaurte Chock, Trevor Grondin, Jennifer Hinkel, Gary Hunter, Michael Logan, Mark Meadows, Nathanael Miller, Shaunte Otey, Christopher Potter, Jon Rask, Vikram Shyam, Kelci Skaggs, David Voracek, David Wagner , 2nd Annual ImaginAviation Conference (Virtual) , 2023

  A structured mapping process for surfacing high-impact, underexplored problem spaces in aviation — combining stakeholder interviews, data analytics, and future scenario analysis.

• Improving Crime Data Sharing and Analysis Tools for a Web-Based Crime Analysis Toolkit: WebCAT 2.2 — with Carson C. Calhoun, Chelsea E. Stobbart, Danielle M. Thomas, Donald E. Brown, James H. Conklin , IEEE Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium (SIEDS), Charlottesville, VA , 2008

  Design, implementation, and performance testing of WebCAT 2.2 — a web-based crime analysis toolkit providing statewide data sharing, geospatial analysis, and law enforcement tools across Virginia jurisdictions.

• NASA Responsible AI Policy , NASA , 2023

  Co-authored NASA's agency-wide Responsible AI Policy, establishing governance frameworks, accountability structures, and risk management practices for AI deployment across NASA programs.

Patents

• Method for Leveraging a Secure Telecommunication Session — US 10,810,318 , 2020

  With B.I. Gandhi, N. Kaushik, R.A. Levine, T.D. Limaye

• Network-Based Key Distribution System, Method, and Apparatus — US 10,432,600 , 2019

  With B.I. Gandhi, N. Kaushik, R.A. Levine, T.D. Limaye

• Entropy-Based Authentication of Mobile Financial Transaction — US 10,389,529 , 2019

  With B.I. Gandhi, N. Kaushik, R.A. Levine, T.D. Limaye

Ongoing Research

• Entity Zero

  A prompt-level architecture approach to mirroring psychometrics to produce higher-fidelity emotional responses from LLMs.

• The Myth of the Centrist

  A deep statistical dive into survey data reflecting the growing mistrust and fragmented centrist voting block that continues to shape American politics.

• MADI

  Generative AI for long-horizon foresight via entropy induction.