I am a researcher, programmer, media artist, and game designer who works as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Game Studies at NYU. My dissertation, “Modeling Revolution: A Global History of Games as Model Systems,” tells a global history of the use of games as modeling technologies for conceptualizing systems—from the cosmological, divinatory, and mathematical uses of games in the ancient world to the contemporary use of games and game concepts in machine learning and the sciences. Through a focus on the history of symbolic computation from the seventeenth century to the mid-twentieth, it argues that games are central to an ongoing revolution in systems modeling. Beyond this project, I have published research in Representations, Digital Humanities Quarterly, ROMchip, and Game Studies journals. I have researched a range of topics related to global science and technology, and have years of experience leading research projects and teaching undergraduate courses in critical data science, game design, science studies and literature. Learn More