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2024​

• July 2024: Our systematic literature review on bi-directional human-AI alignment is available on Arxiv. It was a wonderful collaboration across academia and industry

• June 2024: I served as an Accessibility Chair alongside amazing Stacy Brahnam at C&C2024!

• June 2024: Gave a guest lecture on AI and design for Foundations of Interactive Systems at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Thank you, Prof. Alexander Mädche for the invitation!

• ​May 2024: It was my pleasure to give the Google Sponsor Invited Talk at CHI 2024 on AI and Design

• May 2024: Served as a Social Communications Chair alongside Xiang Li for CHI 2024. It was a lot of fun to keep the community updated on the CHI conference

• May 2024: Invited as an outside committee member to Manoj Deshpande's dissertation committee - excited to support his journey!

• Jan 2024: Excited to serve as an Accessibility Chair for CSCW 2024!

 

2023​​

• Nov 2023: My amazing colleague Jimmy Lin​ presented our poster on Relay: A collaborative UI Model for design handoff at UIST 2023!

• Sept 2023: Co-organized and presented at Karlsruhe Institute for Technology in Karlsruhe, DE

• April 2023: I gave a Google Sponsor Invited Talk on "Transitioning from Academia to Industry" to an audience at the CHI 2023 Conference in Hamburg, DE

• Jan 2023: Excited that our case study led by my former student researcher, Yuwen Lu, has been accepted at CHI 2023!

 

2022​

• June 2022: Attended C&C 2022 in Venice, Italy and joined insightful discussions at the virtual brainstorming workshop

• May 2022: Attended CHI 2022 in person in New Orleans, Louisiana. It was wonderful to meet new and old friends post-pandemic

 

2017-2021 (Graduate School)​

• Dec 2021: I accepted a job as a UX Researcher at Google, working on the Material Design team

• Nov 2021: I passed my dissertation defense! Say hello to Dr. Knearem :D

• July 2021: Was accepted into the CI Fellows Program as a postdoctoral scholar at University of California San Diego

• May 2021: Started a summer UXR internship with GoogleAI on the AIUX team​

• Received the Penn State College of IST Award for Excellence in Teaching Support, which recognizes outstanding commitment to student learning, reflective teaching practices, leadership, and a commitment to professional growth as a teacher. March, 2021​

• April 2021: Awarded a Graduate Teaching Fellowship, and taught IST 402 Community Informatics (Emerging Technologies)​

• June 2020: Started a summer UXR internship with Facebook on the Ads and Business Platform team

• May 2019: I passed my Dissertation Proposal! 

• August 2017: Welcome to Penn State! I am starting my PhD in Information Sciences and Technology under Dr. John M. Carroll. Excited to be part of the College of IST.

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