Dr. Tae is a skateboarder, digital artist, scientist, and teacher. He earned his bachelor’s degree in physics from the Georgia Institute of Technology and his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has held faculty positions at Lake Forest College, DePaul University, and Northwestern University and currently serves on the advisory council for Puget Sound Community School. As a skateboarder, he’s best known for his consistent 360 flips, which admirers have nicknamed “Tae Flips.” He is producing The Physics of Skateboarding with Dr. Tae, a video series which combines his interests in science, skepticism, skateboarding, and education. When the Los Angeles Times needed someone to explain the physics behind Jake Brown’s slam on the MegaRamp at X Games XIII, they called Dr. Tae. His unique expertise also caught the attention of Robomodo, the video game studio where Dr. Tae redesigned the control system for the wireless skateboard peripheral used with Tony Hawk: SHRED. As an independent software developer, Dr. Tae created “Not YYZ” for the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad, an app that takes the idea behind Rush‘s instrumental “YYZ” and turns it into a game of musical Mad Libs using Morse code.