I am a post-disciplinary creative exploring and building technologies and crafting immersive experiences for a better tomorrow. My current research trajectories consist of low-latency synchronous musical co-creation over distance, multisensory immersion and broadening of human cognitive bandwidth in automotive scenarios, large-scale digital signal processing, including spatialization and data sonification, and enhancing K-12 education through integrated technology-mediated experiential learning.

I believe in an integrative and holistic approach to creative scholarship, and a better future through culture and technology.

I received doctorate from the University of Cincinnati (2005) in computer music. Since the August of 2025, I serve as the inaugural director of the Indiana University Kinetic Immersion and Extended Reality (KIX) Lab and a professor in the Media Arts and Production, spearheading the development of cutting-edge immersive facilities as a catalyst for community of interdisciplinary creatives pursuing impactful research, experiential learning, and outreach & engagement opportunities. The KIX Lab was formed by eight stakeholder units distributed across multiple IU campuses. Its vision is centered on its community that explores and leverages cutting-edge immersive technologies to study, advance, and celebrate the human condition.

Prior to joining Indiana University, I worked at Virginia Tech as the inaugural director of the Creativity + Innovation (C+I) interdisciplinary initiative and the co-director of the Human Centered Design (HCD) individualized interdisciplinary PhD program, a professor in Creative Technologies in Music in the College of Architecture, Arts, and Design’s (AAD) School of Performing Arts (SOPA), the founder and director of the Digital Interactive Sound and Intermedia Studio (DISIS) and World’s first Linux-based Laptop Orchestra (L2Ork), Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology (ICAT) Senior Fellow, and a member of the Center for Human-Computer Interaction (CHCI) with a courtesy appointment in the department of Computer Science.

Since 2011, I received over $5.7M in external funding from industry and government agencies, including Google, Microsoft, National Science Foundation, NASA, and the Office of Naval Research (a part of US Department of Defense). As a staunch life-long practitioner of and advocate for an integrative approach to education, I have developed custom-tailored Higher Ed frameworks for the implementation, integration, assessment, and affirmation of industry-relevant interdisciplinary education and scholarship. Most recently, this includes working with the Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities and its member institutions on developing arts metrics.