C+I Director

Following my stint as the CLAHS interim associate dean for research and graduate studies, a limited-term role replacing a colleague on a research leave, starting January 2019 I was given an opportunit...

Associate Dean

From July until December 2018 I was given an opportunity to serve as the Virginia Tech College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences Interim Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies and Directo...

Convenio

In part inspired by the success of the NASA’s LINC project, in summer 2018 my spouse and collaborator Anamaria and I identified a need for a similar framework that would allow for networking bet...

C+I Metrics

In a world of dwindling resources, climate change, and overpopulation, the human society has increasingly turned its attention towards accountability, performance, and impact monitoring. As a result, ...

NIME 2018

Building on the momentum established by the SEAMUS national conference that put Virginia Tech and ICAT on the national stage, in the late spring of 2015 I assembled a cross-institutional team and led ...

COMPEL

One of the ironies of a post-WWII society and the ensuing technological revolution is the dramatic discrepancy between the access to traditional music and to the newfound technology-mediated electroac...

Destination Areas

In 2016 the Virginia Tech President Tim Sands and the former Virginia Tech Provost Thanassis Rikakis announced a major new initiative titled Destination Areas (DA). It is envisioned to create research...

Cinemacraft

In preparation for Virginia Tech’s inaugural presence at SXSW 2016 expo in Austin, Texas, I was invited to serve on the University-level task force whose goals was to identify content for a gen...

Orb

Affectionately referred to as the Orb of Awesomeness, the Orb is a collaborative project focusing on the interactive visualization of a complex web of interrelated data. It all sta...

Soundtracks

Over the years, I engaged in a number of collaborations where my contribution was perhaps a bit more traditional in scope. Namely, I was tasked with composing the soundtrack. Unlike most production sc...