Human subjects research exploring the relationship among gender composition, activity structure, and brainstorming novelty during engineering team ideation. Applied Shah's ideation effectiveness framework to quantify novelty across a vast dataset of engineering student ideas for playground equipment.

Developed + applied a codebook on dozens of faculty interviews to answer the question: how do engineering faculty beliefs and practices about their pedagogy influence their perceptions of evaluation methods?

Conducted human subjects research to better understand salient factors that might influence and improve team-based brainstorming activities.