Hi there! I’m an interdisciplinary researcher with expertise in interaction design, assistive technologies, digital fabrication, and co-design methodologies. My work centers on participatory design with non-traditional design communities—particularly DIY makers in the healthcare domain—to develop design tools, methods, and technologies that empower these groups and improve the living conditions of people with disabilities. I am currently an assistant professor in the School of Industrial Design at the Georgia Institute of Technology, the director of the Health Design CoLab, and the program director for the Design Studio at the Emory Roybal Center for Dementia Caregiving. Before joining Georgia Tech, I served as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of British Columbia, where I developed, co-taught, and evaluated graduate-level courses for Designing for People (DFP), focusing on human-centered interactive technologies. I hold a Ph.D. in Interaction Design from the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University, where I worked in the Everyday Design Studio. Prior to that, I studied Product and Service System Design at Polytechnic University of Milan.