I’m Evan King, founder of Thoughtful Things.

I coined the term “thoughtful things” during my PhD at UT Austin, where my research on embedded generative models earned multiple best paper awards. That work focused on making devices more perceptive, inspiring, and responsive to the people who use them – principles that now define Thoughtful Things.

We build music devices powered by on-device audio models, exploring new forms of sound design with embedded generative audio. We also take on select engagements for teams building products that require deep expertise in human-centered, embedded AI/ML under real-world constraints.

In my free time I like to hack on old tape machines, turn sea levels into music, and write poetry with hallucinating speech to text models.