I live in Gold Coast, Australia. I work somewhere between mathematics, computation, and design. I trained as a computer science engineer, took a long detour through design school, and spent most of the last decade teaching mathematics, algorithms, and human-computer interaction. That detour matters to me. It left me wary of the gap between a clean result and something a person actually has to use.
Three things hold that work together. I treat mathematics as a language for reading the world and building inside it, a way of seeing structure. Computation is how that seeing becomes useful: it turns an idea into something you can run and hand to someone else. And ethics, a habit I kept from human-centered design, keeps me asking who a system is really for and what it assumes without saying so.
These days I build machine learning and image processing for engineering problems. I care most about the choices made before any model runs: how a physical thing becomes data, and what that data then lets a model see. The results end up in publications, the tools and side projects in making, which I keep open. The jobs that got me here, faculty then research then software, are in work.
I owe most of it to other people. The people I have learned from run through all of it, a few awards and services mark the years, and reflections close each one out. I am not the fastest to an answer. What I am good at is finding the question worth asking, and staying with it.