I'm Nathan Phillips from Kansas!
I love learning and building new things, as well as staying active!
My passion is to create human-technology interfaces, incorporating elements of engineering, psychology, and neuroscience, giving humans a way to seamlessly and intuitively interface with technology, even at a subconscious level, making the technology feel like an extension of themselves.
My mission with this technology is to give individuals agency to pursue passions they otherwise would not be able to, overall making their lives more fulfilling (specifically: increase eudaimonic wellbeing).
Feel free to check out some of my previous projects below, or reach out to me if you have any questions!
Leading a research study on using wait-mounted vibrotactile haptics to give users an intuitive spatial understanding of their surroundings.
300+ hours: Aug 2025 - Aug 2026
Exploring tech ethics and policy via a policy brief: "AI Recommendations are Undermining Human's Autonomy". Done in an effort to build skills the ensure I know how to apply my future work to the real world.
20 hrs: Nov 2025 - Dec 2025
Teaching assistant for Jr/Sr level course. Leading lectures on ROS 2 and OpenCV. Handling $10,000 budget for robots.
This solar charger was designed to be extremely lightweight, while still maintaining the efficiency needed to charge something like a small UAV. During this project I designed a 4-layer PCB and integrated an STM8 microcontroller alongside it.
This makes me sad... | Let me know if you're working on solutions for this!