He has taught at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institue, University of Pennsylvania and Politecnico di Turino and was a Principal Research Faculty at the Center for Architecture, Science and Ecology, a RPI and SOM joint initiative. Ted has been invited to participate in conferences at Harvard, Yale, and Pratt to present his research topics in BIM and the built ecologies. His current research involves machine vision, machine learning, VR simulation engines, and collaborative robotics. Prior research includes the remediation of distraught ecologies via the self-assembly of nanomaterials, the intersection between energy and material systems - the physiology of form - how organisms develop formal and material strategies to metabolize locally available energies.