Nadya Peek

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Nadya Peek is a leading researcher at the intersection of digital fabrication, human-computer interaction, and machine design. Her work fundamentally challenges the notion that fabrication tools must be black boxes, instead championing the creation of accessible, customizable, and reconfigurable hardware. Her most-cited paper, "Fabricatable Machines" (2020, 26 citations), lays the groundwork for this vision by exploring how non-experts can design and build their own digital fabrication machines, moving beyond mere mass-customization of objects to the mass-customization of the tools themselves. This contribution is pivotal in democratizing advanced manufacturing, enabling a broader community to participate in machine creation. Beyond this core work, Peek’s influence extends into materials acceleration, as seen in her 2023 paper on a sonochemical synthesis platform (3 citations), which demonstrates her commitment to open-hardware, high-throughput workflows. As a faculty member at the University of Washington, she continues to push the boundaries of what is possible with accessible, tool-changing platforms like Jubilee, inspiring a new generation of researchers to rethink the relationship between designers, machines, and the objects they produce.