Born October 19, 1972, in MI. Education: University of Michigan, B.S., 1994, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, M.S., 1997, Ph.D., 2001. Addresses: Home: Cambridge, MA. Office: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139-4307. Agent: Bess Reed Currence, Regal Literary, Inc., 1140 Broadway, Penthouse, New York, NY 10001. E-mail: kdi@mit.edu.

• On the Nature of Human Romantic Interaction (short stories), Dial (New York, NY), 2003.
• (With S. Dubowsky) Mobile Robots in Rough Terrain: Estimation, Motion Planning, and Control with Application to Planetary Rovers, Springer (New York, NY), 2004.
• (Editor, with Martin Buehler and Sanjiv Singh) The 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge: The Great Robot Race, Springer (New York, NY), 2007.
• The Expeditions: A Novel, Dial Press (New York, NY), 2008.

Work anthologized in Best American Short Stories. Contributor of stories to Tin House, Seed, One Story, Paris Review, and Zoetrope.