AI supports much of my research, teaching, and service. Everything is launched and supervised from one place. Open a role below to see the tools behind it, and, for research, the process itself.
Ian · ⌨ Launcher
my personal OS, built around research and AI tools
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The Launcher is a personal operating system I built for my desktop. It opens every project, tool, and Claude Code session from one place and keeps the AI sessions across research, teaching, and service in view at once.
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claude --resume · referrals-and-learning
› draft the risk-adjustment robustness table
● running 100 sensitivity checks…
● 87 / 100 complete
State of the Union
Working papers 6
Grants 2
Upcoming 3
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Research The full pipeline, from monitoring through to review. ›
The researcher owns every decision that shapes a finding. AI joins at specific stages to add reach and volume, and stays out where judgment is the whole job.
Always running
Monitor literature, conferences, feeds
Collect standing data assets, scrapers
Idea
Identification
Data
Analysis
Writing
Dissemination
Researcher
Frame the question
Strategy, specification, methods
What data, and why
Interpret the findings
The argument & synthesis
The claims & narrative
AI
Surface related work
judgment alone
Build & debug pipelines, scrape, validate
Run 100s of robustness checks; draft tables & figures
Help rephrase, identify problem areas, suggest edits
Generate decks, tables, figures; sync the record
Principle
Never let AI originate the question
Never delegate the research design
Never trust a pipeline I haven't checked
Never let AI interpret a result
Never use AI to draft from scratch
Never send out anything I haven't vetted
Tools behind it
Monitor & Collect
Tracks new literature and maintains my standing datasets.
Referee
Reviews my own paper drafts for weaknesses before I submit.
Sync
Publishes approved updates to my CV and website.
Teaching Classroom tools and advising support. ›
Commons
An in-class teaching app, built with AI to my specification.
Student tracker
Consolidates each student’s work so recommendation letters are complete.
Service Reviewing others’ work. ›
Referee reports
I write the review. AI checks that I read the paper correctly and missed nothing. It does not write the assessment.