PROJECTS & RESEARCH
Questions worth
chasing.
I don't need every question to become a product—or every hypothesis to be right. The work is in investigating honestly enough to find out.
HOW I APPROACH THE WORK
Start with the question.
Let the evidence change it.
Some ideas begin in a classroom. Others begin in moments I can't stop thinking about. I document both the origin and the investigation: what prompted the question, what science already knows, the engineering constraints, what I test, what I learn and where the idea stands afterward.
OBSERVATION→QUESTION→SCIENCE→TEST→LEARN
ACTIVE INVESTIGATIONNEUROSCIENCE · TELECOMMUNICATIONS · ENGINEERING
01
Can thought become communication?
A deeply human problem became an engineering question: when someone can no longer speak, can electrical activity in the brain provide another communications channel?
The idea connects an electrical-engineering foundation, graduate study in telecommunications networks and later neuroscience study. The investigation asks what would actually be required to detect useful neural signals, interpret them reliably and translate intent into an output another person can understand.
Research notebook · being assembledCONCEPT EXPLORATIONENERGY · WATER · RESILIENCE
02
Can we harness the storm?
The question began waist-deep in floodwater.
Years ago, I was caught in a severe flood with a family member. We climbed through a car window and pushed the vehicle toward safety while electrical transformers were blowing above us. Surrounded by so much uncontrolled water and energy, I wondered what engineering could capture instead of simply endure.
The investigation separates several very different problems: stormwater capture and treatment for potable use, the practicality of capturing energy associated with lightning, and what extreme winds can teach us about generation, storage and resilient infrastructure.
Investigation notes · being assembledHISTORICAL RESEARCH · REVISITINGNETWORK SECURITY · BUFFER MANAGEMENT
03
Buffer management in intrusion detection & prevention systems.
Earlier academic research into what happens when security systems must inspect network traffic under finite processing and buffer constraints.
This archive will preserve the original work and its follow-on phase, then revisit the problem with the benefit of everything learned since. The goal isn't to rewrite the past. It's to document what I investigated then, what the results meant, and what questions remain interesting now.
Research history · being assembled
THE NOTEBOOK STAYS OPEN
A conclusion can be
“this doesn't work.”
That's still knowledge. This archive will include successful ideas, abandoned approaches, changed assumptions and questions that lead somewhere unexpected.
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