I'm a computer scientist and research software engineering lead working to improve our abilities to understand, model, and adapt to our rapidly changing world with ethically grounded computational science (which now seems to inordinately include agentic AI).
Since joining ASU in 2006 I have worked to advance open, transparent computational science in service of sustainability, effective collective action and peace. Current and past projects include:
- human-centered AI systems that amplify scientific reasoning, research software development, and collaborative decision-making
- research into collective action and the commons 🤲 via multiplayer "serious games" and experiments, the Virtual Commons
- the Network for Computational Modeling in the Social and Ecological Sciences (CoMSES Net)
- the Open Modeling Foundation's Cyberinfrastructure Working Group
- Synthesizing Knowledge of Past Environments (SKOPE)
- the Consortium of Scientific Software Registries and Repositories (scicodes)
- the Digital Archaeological Record (tDAR)
- Research Data Alliance's FAIR For Research Software (FAIR4RS) Working Group
- FORCE11 Software Citation Implementation Working Group
- the Social Ecological Systems Library
- The Software/Data/Library Carpentries instructor and lesson maintainer for the Plotting and Programming in Python and Good Enough Practices for Scientific Computing lessons
- Community Surface Dynamics Modeling Systems' Basic Model Interface (BMI) Council (2022-)
- DataCite Services and Technology Steering Group (2023-)
- Open Modeling Foundation's Cyberinfrastructure Working Group co-chair (2022-)
- Consortium of Scientific Software Registries and Repositories co-chair (2023-2025)
Music up with a local symphony! Here's some of ours:
- The Tempe Symphony Orchestra, plays four free concerts / year at the lovely Tempe Center for the Arts
- The newly formed Scottsdale Symphonic Orchestra holds regular concerts at the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts