Eric Reynolds Brubaker

I am an assistant professor of management and systems engineering at Virginia Tech. 

Before joining Virginia Tech, I spent three years as a senior complex systems engineer at NASA leading the Discovery team within the Convergent Aeronautics Solutions project.  I began my career working at Battelle, IDDS and MIT D-Lab developing hardware, teaching design, and growing social impact organizations in the U.S., India, and Zambia. Then I returned to school and completed a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (Design) at Stanford University. There I was part of the Center for Work, Technology & Organization, Designing Education Lab and Center for African Studies with funding from the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. 

My research aims to help people co-design across group boundaries, building from theories and tools in engineering design, human-AI teaming, organization studies, learning sciences, complex systems, critical studies and other transdisciplinary scholarship. I often take an ethnographic or mixed methods approach in partnership with communities and organizations. 

My family and I are based in Blacksburg, VA, USA.