I am a Professor in the Information and Computer Sciences Department at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. My areas of research and teaching are human-computer interaction and cognitive science. I served as department chair from 2017-2024.
Currently I am serving as a rotator at the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) in Washington D.C. At NSF, I am a program director in the Human-Centered Computing program.
I am also a stage and camera actor. I have appeared on stage in the Philadelphia area and in Hawaii. I grew up in Los Angeles where I was a TV and film child actor. My child acting "claim to fame" was being Marsha's date, Alan Anthony, in the "Brace Yourself" episode of The Brady Bunch. After a 40-year hiatus, I finally returned to network TV in the new Hawaii Five-0.