Hello! My name is
Ticha pronounced "TEE-shuh"
and I am a creative technologist and PhD candidate in the HCI Engineering Group at MIT.

My research focuses on how to design, build, evaluate, and deploy visual computing and fabrication systems that extend the expressive capabilities of physical artifacts. This can come in the form of support tools that democratize expert creative workflows for everyday users, to low-cost fabrication methods that bring rich interactivity into the physical world. Critically, my work uses insights from creative professionals to inform new ways to model and control physical phenomena. I demonstrate the robustness of my systems via technical benchmarks and empirical user studies, which enable me to deploy my research beyond the lab.

My work has been generously supported by the 2019 MIT Stata Family Presidential Fellowship and 2021 Siebel Scholars Award.

Outside of research, I love to paint, play
music currently: piano, guitar, bass, ukulele, voice
(sometimes in a band), and sporadically compose!

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