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 A. Knight, E.R. Brubaker, S. Kinch, R.M. Best, K. Bond, N. Fichera et al. , NASA , 2025

  A framework of reusable innovation templates designed to accelerate convergent discovery across disciplinary boundaries within large research organizations.

• 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 IDETC-CIE 2024 , 2024

  Empirical study of how engineers and designers actually integrate generative AI into their workflows — three emergent collaboration strategies observed across NASA and university research teams.

• Aviation 2072: Scenario Planning for Wicked Problems — with Vikram Shyam, Dyan Finkhousen, Jon Rask et al. , NASA Technical Memorandum , 2023

  Scenario planning methodology applied to aviation's hardest long-horizon problems, developed with NASA Ames researchers and global innovation partners.

• Cas Mapping — Helping Aviation Find Problems Worth Solving — with J. Amador, B. Boogaard, K. Bilimoria, R. Chock, T. Grondin, J. Hinkel et al. , 2nd Annual ImaginAviation Conference , 2023

  A methodology for surfacing and prioritizing high-value problem spaces in aviation using structured causal mapping techniques.

• Improving Crime Data Sharing and Analysis Tools for a Web-Based Crime Analysis Toolkit: WebCAT 2.2 — with C.C. Calhoun, C.E. Stobbart, D.M. Thomas, D.E. Brown et al. , IEEE Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium (SIEDS) , 2008

  Architecture and design of WebCAT 2.2, a web-based crime analysis toolkit enabling cross-jurisdictional data sharing and visualization for law enforcement.

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

• Method for Leveraging a Secure Telecommunication Session — US 10,348,496 , 2019

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

• Method for Leveraging a Secure Telecommunication Session — US 10,200,195 , 2019

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

Policy & Guidance

• 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.

• MADI: Multi-modal AI for Design and Innovation — NASA , 2023

  Led development and deployment of MADI, NASA's internal generative AI platform for aeronautics research — enabling cross-team knowledge synthesis, scenario generation, and research acceleration across disciplinary silos.

Research Areas

• Generative AI in engineering design workflows
• Scenario planning for long-horizon technological uncertainty
• Human-AI collaboration patterns and productivity
• Responsible AI policy and governance frameworks
• AI knowledge management in large research organizations