Selected research
Research themes
My research spans mathematics, planetary environments, computing, public health, and anthropology. The projects below bring those interests into concrete forms: models that can be examined, software that can be run, and arguments grounded in explicit sources and methods.
Selected research and ongoing programs, with links to papers, code, and supporting material.
01Planetary environments
Connecting atmospheric physics, climate, ecology, and engineering to ask what makes a world habitable.
Research software · Working manuscript2026
World-crafting adapts climate, storm, and wave models to worlds with different gravity, daylight, and atmospheric depth. The developing ensemble connects ExoPlaSim, CM1, SWAN, and SWASH, with documented model changes, calibration tools, and checks on assumptions inherited from Earth.
Active research program2026
Terluna asks what an open, living Moon would require: retaining an atmosphere, moderating the lunar day, sustaining ecosystems, and supplying the necessary industry. Atmospheric escape, radiation, climate, geography, and biological resource budgets become explicit requirements that can be calculated and revised. Integrated habitability and engineering feasibility remain research questions.
02Mathematics
Developing ways to calculate with graphs while retaining their structure.
Mathematical research · Exact computational library2026
This program develops graph arithmetic from disjoint unions and Cartesian products, extending finite graphs to structured infinite limits. The current framework connects local geometry, inversion, heat calculations, and defect analysis with proof notes and an exact Python library. A public development record distinguishes established results, proof checkpoints, and open conjectures.
03Computing and adaptive systems
Making system architecture and adaptive behavior explicit enough to inspect and test.
Experimental computing platform2026
Megapad-64 explores a tile-oriented computer architecture through an emulator, a Forth BIOS and operating system, and a hosted source simulator. Akashic supplies a growing application environment, including numerical tools, graphics, audio, documents, and an interactive desktop. The work connects architecture to running software through explicit interfaces and automated tests; physical hardware remains a separate development track.
Preprint · Mathematical framework2026
Proposes a way to compare how organisms use information to steer toward favorable outcomes while accounting for different bodies, senses, and decision timescales. The framework defines sentience operationally as adaptive control capacity and develops illustrative comparisons across very different organisms.
04Public health and comparative evidence
Examining interventions and welfare conditions through explicit models and careful comparisons.
Peer-reviewed · Frontiers in Public Health2020
Uses an adapted epidemic model to investigate whether public infection-risk reports could guide changing levels of voluntary distancing. Published as a Hypothesis and Theory article, it offers a model-based policy proposal with openly available simulation code.
Preprint · Comparative public-health analysis2026
Compares public evidence on income, care access, and support for Holocaust survivors in Israel and the United States. The analysis develops explicit comparison measures, examines the limits of unlike poverty indicators, and identifies where harmonized individual-level data would improve the comparison.
05Ancestry, food, and human relationships
Tracing connections among biological evidence, lived relationships, and cultural interpretation.
Preprint · Single-genome case study2026
Combines whole-genome comparisons, maternal and paternal lineages, local DNA segments, and documentary genealogy in a detailed case study. The analysis develops specific comparison targets and identifies data gaps for further work on Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry.
Preprint · Anthropology and ethics2026
Examines the difficult case of eating an animal that was individually known and cared for. Drawing together animal-welfare research, anthropology, and food science, the paper explores long-term care, end-of-life responsibility, and whole-animal use as connected ethical questions.