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Five threads I keep pulling on.

A research practice doesn't read as a list — it reads as a few questions you keep returning to. These are mine.

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▣ Multimodal Pipeline
Dissertation · 2023 – 2025

Ranking the features that reveal student collaboration

Across speech, gesture, gaze, and position, which signals matter? A multimodal study with engineering undergraduates in CSTEPS.

PythonRandom ForestSHAPOpenPose
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CEASAR · 2020 – 2024

Joint attention in an immersive astronomy classroom

HoloLens 2 and tablets, used together. We coded gesture and joint attention with ENA & ONA — and found that where you look together predicts what you understand together.

HoloLens 2ENA / ONAEmbodied Cognition
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HoloOrbits · 2024 – 2025

Replicating an LLM tutor agent on a 3.8B-parameter model

Fine-tuned Microsoft Phi-3 on synthetic GPT-4o data — and recovered 85% of the larger model's tutoring behavior, while flagging systematic hallucinations.

Phi-3RAGSynthetic Data
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Method · 2023 – 2025

360-degree cameras vs. traditional cameras

A comparative study (J. of Educational Data Mining, 2025): a single GoPro Max captures a small group's facial affect 4× better, and pose 10× better, than a wall of fixed cameras.

GoPro MaxOpenFaceOpenPose
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Radicality Ministries · 2025 – present

A 188-page devotional, designed end-to-end

Curriculum, typography, interior layouts and cover art — and a full Squarespace rebuild that lifted impressions 10% in month one.

CurriculumCanvaSquarespaceSEO