As a student in the Technology & Policy Program and a research assistant in the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, my research concerns future travel demand in China, its interaction with potential climate policies, and the energy and emissions implications of same. More broadly, I am interested in the study of policies to make available & attractive lower-energy modes of travel and low-transport lifestyles. These are essential to a society that's sustainable in every sense.

In previous academic lives I worked on control algorithms for swarms of UAVs at the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies, and got a really excellent undergraduate education as an Aerospace Engineer in the Division of Engineering Science at the University of Toronto.

Leadership and literature both interest me, so I edit the Engineering Leadership Review; and have participated in Air Cadets, the UofT Engineering Society, Leaders of Tomorrow, TPSS, the MIT Transportation Club and more. γνῶθι σεαυτόν and 勿体無い are the most concise of many valuable ideas that reading has introduced me to.

I have paddled and coached dragon boat; I run, ski, play squash, and bicycle; played trombone, acoustic guitar and the larynx (poorly). I am also on Disqus, Facebook, Google+, Launchpad, and LinkedIn.

Research, coursework and my extracurricular commitments mean I generally have little time to get my opinions and ideas into writing, but here you'll find some of those I've captured, and some of the resources and interesting items that have inspired me… and also a lot of old cruft. This may be the ninth or tenth incarnation of my personal website, previous editions spanning perhaps twelve years and half-a-dozen URLs. Enjoy!