Josephfoley

Dr. Joseph Timothy Foley (MIT BSc ‘99, MEng, ‘99, PhD ‘07) has worked as a researcher and designer in a large variety of fields with a heavy emphasis on infrastructure and mechatronics.
His graduate research at MIT focused on integrating RFID into smart devices in a scalable and secure way.
He holds patents on the Object Name System for RFID-tagged objects to the responsible party and
He worked as a postgraduate researcher in the Environmentally Benign Manufacturing group at MIT in partnership with SKF, investigating methods of reducing the impact and energy usage of manufacturing processes.
At iRobot's Government and Industrial division, he developed shape-changing robots as the technical lead for the Harvard-MIT-iRobot DARPA ChemBots team.
This research resulted in a US patent on the manufacture of enhanced Shape Memory Alloy springs for soft robotics.
He is now an assistant professor at Reykjavik University and teaches topics in mechatronics and mechanical design.
He has integrated Axiomatic Design into the courses he currently teaches to provide students with a common framework for the heavily multi-disciplinary nature of modern computer-controlled manufacturing and smart devices.
His research interests include product design, embedded smart devices and IoT, wireless communication, physical security, and engineering-artist collaborations.
His work-related hobbies include developing interactive installations for Icelandic art museums.
His most recent developments in Axiomatic Design research include Creative Axiomatic Design (CIRP DC 2016), Desirable Complexity (ICAD 2017), and Axiomatic Design as an Ontology (CIRP DC 2017).
He is the co-editor for "Design Engineering and Science", a Springer Nature educational textbook which intends to make Axiomatic Design accessible to a large range of fields and teaching styles.