Alan Rorie
Founder, Principal Designer at Five Ton Crane
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlan Rorie is a multidisciplinary founder and principal designer in San Francisco who blends neurobiology, fabrication, and interactive art to create large-scale, kinetic installations and educational experiences. With a Ph.D. in Neurobiology from Stanford and a postdoctoral fellowship at the Exploratorium, he pairs rigorous scientific research—published in journals like Science and PLoS—with hands-on design and contemporary fabrication techniques (plasma, lasers, robots, 3D printing). He founded Almost Scientific and Hero Design to fuse art and science, producing works from steam-powered time machines to plasma-driven rocket sculptures that have appeared at Burning Man, Coachella, and the Exploratorium. Alan’s background in decision-making neuroscience and computational neurobiology informs his human-centered approach to perception and interaction design. Comfortable moving between welding tables and research labs, he advises studios as a scientific and technical consultant while scaling bespoke fabrication from one-offs to small production runs.
14 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Cognitive Science, Cognitive Science at Hofstra UniversityBS, Neuroscience, BS, Neuroscience at New York UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Neuroscience, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Neuroscience at Stanford University School of MedicineGithub contributions (3)
almostscientific/Hero-Design-Voronoi-Bookshelf-Genrator
Apr 2012 - Nov 2012
Contributions:12 commits in 7 months
almostscientific/Voronoi-Bookshelf-Generator-
Jan 2013 - Feb 2013
Contributions:8 commits in 15 days
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