Justin Bailey
2024 Eskenazi Technology and Innovation Fellow
2024 AI Research Team
Associate Professor, Creative Core
Research Interests: Digital fabrication, furniture and object design, prototyping for design production, parametric 3D modeling, CNC machinery
Maxwell Fertik
2025 Eskenazi Technology and Innovation Fellow
Lecturer, Comprehensive Design
Research Interests: Post-industrial ecologies, furniture + artifact design, machine learning and AI visualization, material innovation, rapid prototyping, casting and mold making
Carrie Hott
2026 Eskenazi Technology and Innovation Fellow
Carrie Hott (Graphic Design) is developing How to Slow Internet, a network of small, solar-powered web servers built for specific regions rather than routed through centralized data centers. The fellowship supports a first server in Bloomington that becomes the working model for the rest of the network. The project presents a response to the scale of conventional data center construction.
Ran Huang
2024 AI Research Team
Associate Professor, Merchandising
Research Interests: Digital service management, digital consumer behavior, human-artificial intelligence relationship building
Minjeong Kim
2026 Eskenazi Technology and Innovation Fellow
Minjeong Kim (Merchandising) works on consumer autonomy in AI-assisted decision-making: How people retain agency and well-being within systems that make recommendations for them. Her approach draws on Value Sensitive Design, which treats human values as a design input. She is using the fellowship to build toward an NSF proposal on the subject of protecting that autonomy in interactions with generative AI.
Garim Lee
2024 Eskenazi Technology and Innovation Fellow
2024 AI Research Team
Assistant Professor, Merchandising
Research Interests: Digital consumer behavior, retail technology, artificial intelligence, personalized advertising, online communication
JaeHoon Ma
2026 Eskenazi Technology and Innovation Fellow
JaeHoon Ma (Interior Design) is building an immersive virtual reality module for teaching lighting design in built environments. The module allows users to test how light behaves in a space before construction. Ma is using the fellowship year to measure the impact of immersive practice on student learning. The project is groundwork for a planned NSF proposal on VR- and AI-integrated instruction across architecture and interior design curricula.
Jonathan Racek
2025 Eskenazi Technology and Innovation Fellow
Teaching Professor, Comprehensive Design
Research Interests: System design, emergence, placemaking, AI and robotics in housing
Hoa Vo
2024 Eskenazi Technology and Innovation Fellow
2024 AI Research Team
Assistant Professor, Interior Design
Research Interests: Virtual Reality, creativity, design thinking, built environment, emergent technologies
Caleb Weintraub
Director, Eskenazi Technology and Innovation Lab
Associate Professor, Painting
Research Interests: AI integration in studio art pedagogy, generative imaging, digital fabrication, speculative portraiture
Jiangmei Wu
2025 Eskenazi Technology and Innovation Fellow
2024 AI Research Team
Associate Professor, Interior Design
Research Interests: Spatial design, interior products, origami, emerging technologies
Megan Young
2024 AI Research Team
Lecturer, Digital Art
Research Interests: Interactive art, human-computer-interaction design, social practice, embodiment, and collective action