* Table of Contents *

* About *

* Education *

• SM media arts and sciences, MIT. Cambridge, MA.
• M.Eng. computer science, Cornell University, Ithaca NY.
• BA chemistry, Cornell University, Ithaca NY.
• BA biology, Cornell University, Ithaca NY.

* Selected Projects *

* Professional Experience *

* Talks & Teaching Experience *

* Awards / Publications / Residencies / Misc *

• Interview : Computational Media Design Journal Issue #4, June 2012.


• Liminal Screen co-production residency. Banff New Media Institute, April 2010.


• Cum Laude, distinction in all subjects. Cornell University, Ithaca NY.
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• First place, MIT iPhone programming competition. Cambridge MA, January 2008.
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• Hayes Raffle, Glenda Revelle, Koichi Mori, Rafael “Tico” Ballagas, Kyle Buza, Hiroshi Horii, Jofish Kaye, Kristin Cook, Natalie Freed, Janet Go, Mirjana Spasojevic. Hello, Is Grandma There? StoryVisit: Family Video Chat and Connected E-Books. CHI 2011
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• Rafael Ballagas, Glenda Revelle, Kyle Buza, Hiroshi Horii, Koichi Mori, Hayes Raffle, Mirjana Spasojevic, Janet Go, Kristin Cook, Emily Reardon, Yun-Ta Tsai, Christopher Paretti. Electric Agents: Combining Television and Mobile Phones for an Educational Game. Proc. Interaction Design for Children, 2011.
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• Kyle Buza, Takashi Okamoto: Code Sharing on the Web: Two Approaches. Workshop on Visual Interfaces to the Social and the Semantic Web (VISSW 2009)
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• Philippe Bonnet, Kyle Buza, Zhiyuan Chen, Victor Cheng, Randolph Chung, Takako M. Hickey, Ryan Kennedy, Daniel Mahashin, Tobias Mayr, Ivan Oprencak, Praveen Seshadri, Hubert Siu: The Cornell Jaguar System: Adding Mobility to PREDATOR. SIGMOD Conference 1999
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* Patents *

• Method and System for Runtime Environment Emulation. October, 2006.
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* Other Details *

• For those looking for a laundry list of my skills, here's the best I can do.
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• My work on embedded Java Virtual Machines at Sun Microsystems turned me into a decent Java/C/ASM (ARM/XScale) programmer. I became familiar with OS X at MIT, and it is now my platform of choice. I'm particularly good friends with Objective-C, and use it when it makes sense. The same thing goes for Python, Javascript, Ruby, and Perl (ordered by skill level). I've built websites using Ruby on Rails and others using pure PHP. I've done jobs over the course of the past few years that were purely C++ based, and am comfortable enough with it to be productive in a professional environment.
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• I'm intimately familiar with the internals of graphical programming libraries including Processing and OpenFrameworks. I've done a number of projects that involve the modification of various open-source video game emulators from Stella (Atari2600) to the NES, GameBoy, and Intellivision. Recently, I've spent time digging into the internals of the Chrome browser and the V8 JavaScript interpreter. I've poked around the WebKit source a few times to take a look at various things from the structure of the RenderTree to the inner workings of JavaScriptCore. I've written applications for Oblong's g-speak spatial operating environment, and worked on (not yet released) interactive data visualizations of live flight data tiled across on hundreds of displays. I can make iPhone/iPad applications, and from my early days using JavaME, know how to work with and program resource-constrained devices. I've build quick interactive prototypes using Ogre3D, and am quite competent with OpenGL and GLSL-based shaders. I program as much on paper as I do on screen. I can wireframe and sketch (poorly). I strive to be able to build the things I imagine.
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