NYU Tandon @ The Yard
NYU Tandon @ The Yard is an emerging media R&D facility in Building 22 of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. I designed and built it from the ground up — virtual production stages, motion capture systems, volumetric capture rigs, media servers, and the computing infrastructure to run it all.
The facility supports graduate education, workforce development, and industry R&D. I cultivated partnerships with Epic Games, ASUS, Snap, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and secured the largest Unreal Engine MegaGrant ever awarded to an academic institution. Curriculum developed here produced alumni who won three Sports Emmy Awards for the Super Bowl LVIII broadcast on Nickelodeon.
The facility also hosts NSF-funded research in volumetric compression and serves as a consulting resource for universities and studios building their own production environments. Over 100 individual consulting sessions through “Office Hours for the City of New York.”