Hello! My name is
Ticha pronounced "TEE-shuh"
and I am a PhD candidate in the HCI Engineering Group at MIT. My research has been generously supported by the 2019 MIT Stata Family Presidential Fellowship and 2021 Siebel Scholars Award.

My research investigates how to engineer expressive technologies: computational tools that yield new artifacts or interactions that people could not easily achieve through conventional techniques. So far, I have explored this through developing creative processes for advanced materials and complex perceptual phenomena. I have successfully applied these ideas to manufacturing workflows to enable analog material interfaces which can respond to a range of external stimuli.

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

📣 I am on the job market! I am eager to find opportunities that allow me to develop the future of creative tools.

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