Aaron Cochran discovers and builds upon creative connections between people and bleeding edge technologies to sustain systems that can adapt to the increasing complexity of our world. He is currently pursuing his masters degree in Cognitive Systems Engineering at The Ohio State University. His research currently focuses on the development of a new visual analytic tool for infection prevention in collaboration with Wexner Medical Center, and studying the use of codesign to reveal alignment between community stakeholders. His designs have been applied in distributed sensing in agriculture, high stakes settings in healthcare, and the integration of virtual reality, machine learning, internet of things, and mobile computing in other fields.