Personal

Sports & Hobbies

I’m an avid mover. Beyond ultimate frisbee (see Coaching), I enjoy pickleball, paddleboarding, rock-climbing, backpacking, bicycling, mountain biking, table tennis, snowboarding, basketball, tennis, weightlifting, soccer, badminton, roller hockey, ice hockey, volleyball, water skiing, wakeboarding, longboarding, rollerblading, and unicycling.

Games

I’m a board game enthusiast—my favorites include 4X, worker placement, engine building, cooperative, RPG, and strategy games. I also enjoy computer games (puzzle, RTS, RPG) and have programmed text-based games to teach Python.

Reading & Podcasts

I aim to read books spanning personal productivity, evolution and development, theory of mind and consciousness, leadership, and science fiction. Some favorites:

• What is Intelligence? by Blaise Aguera y Arcas
• Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
• I Am a Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter
• How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan
• A Thousand Brains by Jeff Hawkins
• Range by David Epstein
• Drive by Daniel Pink
• Diaspora and Permutation City by Greg Egan

Podcasts I follow: Lex Fridman, Brain-Inspired, and Optimal Living Daily.

Awards

Award	Year
NSF Research Opportunity Award (~$24,000)	2021
Indiana University Male Big of the Year Award	2019
Cognitive Science Supplemental Research Fellowship	2015, 2017, 2018
Sarah D. Barder Fellowship, Johns Hopkins CTY	2017
Associate Instructor of the Year, IU School of Informatics	2016