About Me

Welcome to my personal page! I am currently teaching at the University of California, Santa Barbara while I am completing my philosophy PhD. For information on my teaching or research, please see the respective pages.

The most advanced project I've worked on is justinfer.com, a website designed to enhance teaching and learning in formal logic. It allows professors to create courses, easily select their preferred derivation system, and generate derivation problems (or use pre-existing ones). Professors can then assign these problems to students, who can complete them on a user-friendly platform. The website automatically checks students’ work for correctness (sensitive to the derivation system selected by their professor) and tracks their progress in a gradebook. For students, this is as if an instructor is watching every step of a derivation and letting the student know immediately if that step was done correctly. I've worked on this project for years and continue to keep adding to it. In the last year the site has been viewed over 100,000 times.

When I am not doing philosophy, I enjoy a range of activities that keep me energized and inspired. These include playing board games, socializing with friends, gardening, kayaking, listening to music, coding, learning new things, and spending quality time with my dog.