My personal research focus is on design process in an international development context. I am currently working on projects studying design process transfer and design for entrepreneurship. I am interested in how we can measure the impact of design thinking in populations outside of the traditional design profession.

As a secondary focus, I am also studying tools which can be used to collaborate in a distributed setting. I'm interested in how design outcomes and the design process change with the team's ability to share information.

I am also working on a project investigating the human factors of multi-disciplinary large-scale design tasks. In particular, I am focusing on the effect of team dynamics on optimization performance.