Based in Toronto, I do academic research at the intersection of human motor control, memory, and perception. I develop ultra fast wearable embedded sensor systems for motion sonification, previously through my company Performance Sonification and now in an academic collaboration with Harris Lab at York University. I’ve spent a decade as an academic philosopher doing fundamental research in cognitive science on the nature of perception and memory. Currently, I am an associate member of the Centre for Philosophy of Memory, studying the role of memory in perception and the phenomenology of episodic memory. I’m an expert in the mathematics of motion processing and spatial geometry, along with the sensors and hardware needed for motion tracking. See my portfolio for example work.

In my academic career, I previously worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Network for Sensory Research in the Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto. In that position I worked with Mohan Matthen, who’s done seminal work on the link between perception and motion. I completed my Ph.D. in philosophy at Rice University (Houston, Texas), working under Casey O’Callaghan, a leading philosopher of sounds who studies multimodal perception. In addition to my work in cognitive science, my background includes university courses in advanced mathematics and physics.

I’ve been an amateur athlete much of my life, competing in both powerlifting as a youth and track cycling as an adult. In the past, I’ve raced at velodromes in Texas, Pennsylvania, New York, and Ontario. I’ve also worked as a community youth cycling coach and as a bike mechanic in a local bike shop.

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