Ethan joined the Sophic team in Summer 2026 as an Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality Lab Technician Intern. He is currently a rising senior Psychology and Art major at Rice University. Prior to joining Sophic, he was a research assistant for multiple human factors projects spanning semi-autonomous driving and unmanned aerial vehicles to wearable technology. He has experience designing and administering psychological experiments to gather human performance, usability, and mental workload data to inform the design of integrated systems. He plans to apply to graduate programs in the fall and consistently works to broaden his depth and breadth of technical and research skills.