Summary

I’m a senior research leader with 12+ years of experience, specializing insights to help build new, human-centered, AI-driven products. I have expertise in sculpting ambiguous new problem spaces into strategic, actionable insights, and building out UX research functions on technical teams. I have expertise in large, matrixed tech environments, as well as executive-level agency-side advisory experience.

Professional Experience

Chief AI Advisor, National Research Group (2025-)

Staff AI UX Research Lead, Google (2017-2025)

Research Associate, Google X (2016-2017)

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UX-Related Writing, Speaking, Service

Selections from popular media, corporate and academic publishing:

• “AI has a resilience problem. Designers and researchers can help fix it,” Fast Company, 2025.

• Mindsets and Methods for AI UX Research, NRG. 2025

• Towards Goal-Centric Design Google Design Blog, 2020.

• Finding a Voice as a Non-Traditional UXR, Google Design Blog, 2019

• “Mirror, Mirror.” Yale Paprika. 2015. 1 (8)

• Self, Space, Screen: Embodied Relationships in Hybrid Retail Environments. Yale University, Masters Thesis.

• “Toward a New Architectural Pedagogy.” 2015. The International Journal of Design Education 9 (3): 17-26.

Guest Lecturer, Stanford –  Designing Machine Learning (2019-2023); Smart Cities (2017)

AI Advisory Board, Laney College (2024-)