Founder, operator, and strategist for investors and leaders who need new ventures, AI programs, and institutions built right. Former Executive Director, MIT Office of Innovation.
Research — Clearing Conditional Commitments: a working paper on the mechanism design of a conditional-commitment clearinghouse — custody, specification timing, and disclosure (k-anonymity) as the three design dials. Part of a research program on conditional commitment that included a production platform I built myself. JEL C72, D82, D47, H41.
Projects — linelight, a scientifically honest atomic-physics instrument suite for the browser; holodeck, a single-file WebGL toy.