Pat Pataranutaporn is a technologist and a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he explores human-AI interaction, human cognitive augmentation, synthetic virtual humans, and synthetic biology. Specifically, he focuses on the intersections between biological and digital systems. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Fluid Interfaces research group at the MIT Media Lab and a KBTG Fellow, working in collaboration with teams at NASA, NTT DATA, IBM, KBTG, UCSB, Stanford, and Harvard on advancing the future of human-computer interaction. Pat has also held a position as a researcher at the NASA SETI Frontier Development Lab.