I recently published a coloring book about math via the MIT Press.
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/beautiful-symmetry
This is an illustrated and gamified introduction to group theory, both online and on paper.
The digital version is freely available and brings the illustrations to life in interactive animations.
A decentralized system of synchronized lights to coordinate urban mobility swarms
I ran a research experiment with the Media Lab community as unknowing study participants. The study was later published in the journal Appetite (link).
To "debrief" the study participants per our IRB protocol, I presented a "crazy idea" at the Media Lab's FoL "Crazy Ideas" pitch session.
On the security of blockchain, internet, and end-to-end verifiable voting systems, including the cryptography behind how they work.
https://medium.com/mit-media-lab/crypto-voting-us-elections-reality-554214b5c843These stories consider two potential futures for US democracy, branching from our present. One is dystopian, the other utopian.
https://medium.com/mit-media-lab/crypto-voting-us-elections-science-fiction-fb1e4af2d13aIs the placement of bike-share docks equitable?
About winning an algorithmic cryptocurrency trading competition at MIT.
https://medium.com/celohq/arbitrage-and-winning-a-cryptocurrency-trading-competition-at-mit-32e183766e42A solo exhibition at the Babycastles gallery and game arcade in Manhattan, NY. This was an invitation to color on the walls and play with mathematical symmetry challenges, from my project "Illustrating Group Theory".
The exhibition opened with black and white wallpaper posters on white walls. On each poster was a different wallpaper group pattern, accompanied by a description of the symmetries within it, as well as markers and a challenge. The challenge was to participate in a cooperative coloring game: see the symmetries within the wallpaper patterns and add color in a way to maintain the symmetries, in accordance with how others had already added color to the pattern.
There were also pattern worksheets/coloring puzzles on tables alongside the posters. These had patterns from the same wallpaper groups as the posters, but with different designs. They were accompanied by challenges, specific to the wallpaper pattern, for participants to use color to destroy some symmetries while maintaining others.
Babycastles is both a gallery and a game arcade. The arcade cabinets were installed with mathematical art and puzzle games, as well as interfaces to animate the wallpaper patterns seen on the walls.
At the end of the month-long exhibition, the black and white wallpaper pattern posters had been filled with color. The exhibition closing party was an “Algo-rave BBQ” with live coding musical and visual performances within the gallery, and a BBQ in the back patio. With more coloring.
Advancing access to healthy and sustainable eating, with a focus on low income families.
Previously @ farmers-markets.nyc