about
I live and work in Boston, where I’m an assistant professor at Northeastern University within the law and computer science departments. I study how law and technology influence each other.
I worked in tech for about a decade. Among other roles: I was a tech lead at Sidewalk Labs, where I worked on data security, privacy, and “smart” street grids; director of product engineering at Braze; and an early member of the engineering team at Dropbox, where I focused mostly on making large-scale data analytics accessible to non-engineers, including setting up the teams and infrastructure for managing security incident response, prototyping, internal tools, and sales and support automation.
My academic training is a patchwork of legal and engineering work. At NYU Law School, I was a research scholar at the Guarini Institute for Global Law and Tech, a fellow at the Information Law Institute, and co-taught a seminar on global tech law as an adjunct professor. At MIT, I did graduate research at the Computer Science and AI Lab, first on distributed robtics and later on homomorphically encrypted biometric recognition. I also worked on design priciples for space-based synthetic aperature radar at the Systems Engineering Advancement Research Initiative.
