EMERGING TECHNOLOGY & THE WORLD OF WORK October 2026
For agents Every core page of this site as one Markdown file structured for machine reading. Read /llms.txt → 
I help people and organizations make sense of deploying emerging tech.
How do we coordinate human activity at scale, toward a shared goal, mediated by technology? I have worked versions of this same problem in air combat, in deep tech startups, and in academia with large enterprises.
What I do
Research Open → Interdisciplinary publications3 funded grants · $45,000Empirical methods, field studies, experiments Teaching Open → 5 courses, graduate and militaryExecutive educationCourse director, USAF Industry Open → Startup co-founder, exitedDefense tech, fintech, and consulting800+ flight hours, 300 in combat
What's going on
New course AI and HR (ILRHR 5635), an AI-native graduate course, first taught Spring 2027. Course site ↗
Field work Field studies inside HR organizations, through Cornell's CAHRS network, on how firms actually adopt AI.
Enterprise AI adoption How organizations are measuring their AI adoption and deployment.
Working with enterprises and with researchers. Let's get in touch.
Contact → Now
1 Machine learning & NLP
2 Blockchain & decentralized systems
3 Artificial intelligence
4 Robotics & cybernetics
2016 2020 2024 2028 2032
Prior work Published record Forecast
1 Master's work in natural language processing and machine learning. Also applied to electromagnetic warfare and signals intelligence.
2 Blockchain is the digital trust layer that is underpinning the digital native economy. I built a startup, have been funded by the Ethereum Foundation, and continue to advise in this space.
3 Generative AI has been dominating the economy and conversations. I have been studying how people interact with and best use this tech and how to deploy it.
4 Physical AI is next. Human-machine fusion at the bio layer is after that.
Latest talks and press
Full record → Domain Work & organizations Workforce Tokenomics: Pricing AI Work and Defending ROI Cornell ILR Alumni CPO Forum Domain Work & organizations AI Takes Work: GenAI & HR Onex Partners & ONCAP HR Symposium Domain Work & organizations GenAI & HR: AI Adoption, Work Redesign, and the Unit Economics of Enterprise AI TE Connectivity HR Leadership Team (HRLT)