I'm currently a solutions architect at NVIDIA.
Prevously I was a Postdoctoral Research Associate jointly appointed in the MIT Sloan School of Management and CSAIL, where I was a member of the Center for Collective Intelligence and Distributed Robotics Laboratory. My research focused on how to augment the collective ability of people doing creative and open-ended problem solving across the domains of product design, organizational management, and logistics, using technologies like LLMs and diffusion models to broaden the problem domain and refine the solution space. TL;DR: I built creative computational collaborators.
Before that I recieved my Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from UC San Diego where I was a member of both the Human-centered eXtended Intelligence Research Lab and the Design Lab.
My dissertation focused on the sensing of nonverbal behavior between doctors and patients in order to elucidate links between communication and equitable health outcomes. I used mixed methods to understand interpersonal interactions and contextual dynamics, and my work seeks to inform the design of future AI systems to better facilitate human collaboration. TL;DR: I built computational mediators.
My work generally spans the fields of human-centered design, human behavior sensing, biomedical informatics, language understanding (ASR/NLU), and applied machine learning.
You can learn more at my website - https://stevenrick.com/