I design and build software for the built environment.

I’m a senior UX engineer and computational designer on Google Earth. I build the tools that researchers, planners, architects, engineers and developers use to understand a site and what they’re building on it.

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Selected work

2019–2026

Marquee map selection

Drag a box on the map to select any number of features at once, then restyle, hide, copy or delete them together. The first way to select in bulk directly on Google Earth’s 3D map.

design engineering · Google Earth

Cut and fill

Draw a site and see how much earth has to be dug out or brought in to level it, and where. One of four terrain analysis tools in Google Earth.

engineering · Google Earth

Traffic signal level of service

How long do drivers wait at each traffic light? This layer grades every signalized intersection from A to F, hour by hour. Part of a launch that signed up 470+ paying professional users.

design engineering research · Google Earth

Solar assessment

Estimate a site’s solar potential in minutes. Built from the first version through the Solar API.

design engineering research · Google Earth

Mass-timber buildings, generated

Draw a simple line in Rhino, get a full mass-timber building made from a set panel system, floor plans laid out, with its carbon and cost estimated automatically.

design engineering · Intelligent City

Estimating pedestrian activity

How busy will a street be? A “buzz metric” built from census data, for generative design tools.

engineering research · Sidewalk Labs

About

I studied architecture and urban planning, and I think in sites, sections and systems. Now I do the same thinking in code, on a 3D map of the world. I still care about how people move through space, at every scale.

Working on something for the built environment? I’d love to hear about it.

· LinkedIn (external link) · Resume (PDF)

Experience

Google, Senior Computational Designer (UX Engineer)Google Earth, and Delve by Sidewalk Labs before it joined Earth. Site analysis and building design tools, map interactions and data layers.2022–now
Intelligent City, Computational DesignerMass-timber housing. Parametric building generation and design data tools.2021–22
Columbia GSAPP, Researcher and Teaching AssistantCenter for Spatial Research, and exhibition research for Living in America at the Buell Center. Teaching assistant for GIS and Urban Analytics.2016–20

Education

Columbia University, Master of Architecture and MS Urban Planning2020
Barnard College, Columbia University, BA Architecture2016

Teaching and recognition

Mentor, Columbia GSAPP Mentorship Program2026–27
Guest Lecturer, Prototyping in Urban Tech, Columbia GSAPP2026
Honorable Mention, Google Geo Makers Hackathon, for Earth Canvas2025

Earlier work

Graduate school and internships, 2016–20

Beyond the Blue Dot
Can data generate empathy? A prototype that turns census data into short stories about the people who live and work in a place.
research · 2020
Election data for 5M voters
Verified voting locations and mapped what was on the ballot, state by state, for a nonpartisan voter guide used by more than 5 million people.
research · 2020
Liminal Space
Could a model design a space that’s never quite open or closed?
design · 2019
Citi Bike access
Who can reach Citi Bike on foot or by subway, and who it leaves out.
research · 2017
Airbnb analysis
How hosts and guests describe the same New York neighborhoods differently.
research · 2017
Predicting urban sprawl
A neural network trained on satellite images of Cairo, Dubai and Wuhan to forecast where cities grow.
research · 2016