Arriving at LC in 2002, I built artificially intelligent programs to play the classical Asian game of Go. My work was cited in the 2016 Nature article on the AlphaGo program, the first to defeat top human players.
Since then, I’ve collaborated with colleagues in Environmental Studies. With atmospheric scientist Jessica Kleiss, I built deep convolutional neural networks to identify clouds in photos of the sky — a challenging problem of interest to climate modelers. With geologist Liz Safran, psychologist Erik Nilsen, and media scholar Bryan Sebok, I studied (and built) video games as a tool to teach people how to prepare for the looming Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake.
I am now researching accessible video game development.
I work with undergraduate student researchers on these projects every summer.
