About me

I love good design that makes life easier and better for people. For as long as I can remember, I've tried to bridge gaps and help overcome differences between people, while trying to help those in need. Design is a powerful, meaningful, and personal way of achieving all of these.

I'm currently a first-year graduate student in the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, studying Communication Planning and Information Design.

In 2004 I completed my undergraduate studies at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, where I first enrolled as a Computer Science student and switched after two years into the Media Studies track of the Science, Technology, and Culture program. In addition to the BS in STAC, I also obtained a minor in Japanese.

On the side, I love playing the violin and immersing myself in music, studying Japanese, dabbling in linguistics and etymology, traveling and learning about other cultures, reading about geology and astronomy, and playing frisbee.