| May 11, 2024 | I am visiting Hawaii to attend CHI 2024. |
| Apr 25, 2024 | I was promoted to Senior Research Scientist! I am truly humbled by this recognition. |
| Mar 20, 2024 | Our work on using GenAI and semantic diversity in design inspiration has been featured in the news! Also check out our blog post. |
| Mar 13, 2024 | Two workshop papers on creativity were accepted to GenAI and HCI workshop @ CHI 2024! |
| Feb 29, 2024 | Our late breaking work on LLM-augmented biological inspirations was accepted to CHI 2024! |
| Dec 15, 2023 | I am visiting New Orleans to attend NeurIPS 2023. |
| Dec 8, 2023 | Our case study paper on AI-based wheel styling was accepted to CHI 2024! |
| Nov 6, 2023 | Our work on using GenAI and semantic diversity in design inspiration received a 🏆 best paper award at CI 2023!. |
| Oct 28, 2023 | I am visiting Tokyo and Toyota city in Japan for a business trip (10/28-11/3) to multiple Toyota offices. |
| Oct 27, 2023 | Two short papers on analogical inspirations and AI-assisted wheel styling were accepted at NeurIPS 2023 Machine Learning for Creativity and Design Workshop!. |
| Aug 8, 2023 | Our work on using generative AI and semantic diversity in design inspiration has been accepted at CI 2023!. |
| Jul 11, 2023 | Our work on anticipatory thinking in design is published in AI magazine. Check out the paper here. |
| Jun 27, 2023 | Happy to have been part of a multidisciplinary effort to chart a path forward for human-centered generative AI. ArXiv paper available here. |
| Jun 20, 2023 | Happy to share our team’s media feature on the topic of AI-based design optimization with aerodynamics. Check out the media coverage here. |
| Mar 9, 2023 | Workshop paper on generative AI for product design has been accepted as a panel talk at GenAI and HCI 2023. Full program available here. |
| Oct 20, 2022 | Workshop paper on supporting qualitative coding with machine-in-the-loop has been accepted as a panel talk at HCAI @ NeurIPS. Full program available here. |
| Sep 15, 2022 | Happy to serve again as an Associate Chair on the ACM SIGCHI 2023 Health Subcommittee |
| Nov 15, 2021 | I am excited to join the Human-Centered AI division at Toyota Research Institute as a Research Scientist!  |
| Aug 30, 2021 | I will serve as an Associate Chair on the ACM SIGCHI 2022 Health Subcommittee. |
| Jun 19, 2021 | Microsoft released a blog post on a new HAX toolkit featuring the Playbook: “New toolkit aims to help teams create responsible human-AI experiences”. |
| May 13, 2021 | Happy to announce the HAX Playbook (previously AI Playbook) is now released as an open source software. Also check out the live demo of the HAX Playbook platform. |
| May 10, 2021 | I presented our work on planning for natural language failures at ACM CHI 2021 (video). |
| Dec 12, 2020 | Work on planning for natural language failures has been accepted at CHI 2021 (26.3% accept rate). |
| Sep 16, 2020 | I am excited to join University of Washington’s Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education as an NLM Postdoctoral Fellow. |
| Mar 4, 2020 | I successfully defended my dissertation: “Designing Collaborative Mobile Health Experiences for Adolescent Patients.” |
| Jan 23, 2020 | I gave an invited talk at the GVU Brown Bag Seminar |
| Dec 9, 2019 | Work on understanding adolescent patient and caregiver experiences has been accepted at CHI 2020 (23.4% accept rate) |
| Oct 30, 2019 | I’m excited to have been selected as a recipient of the 2019 Foley Scholars Award ($5000) for student excellence in research contributions to computing! |
| May 3, 2019 | I’m excited to have been selected as a recipient of the 2019 George Family Foundation Fellowship ($3500) for my commitment to healthcare and demonstration of leadership! |