About
I am a 3rd-year Ph.D. student in the Human-Computer Interaction Lab at Santa Clara University, where I am fortunate to be advised by Prof. Kai Lukoff. My research study how people engage with digital technologies, with a particular focus on people with ADHD. I am especially interested in designing tools that help people manage distraction and use technology more intentionally.
Before coming to Santa Clara, I interned at a few companies across the Bay Area as a Product Designer. I hold a Master's degree in Information Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Indiana University Bloomington.
Activity
- Sep 2026 Visited the Human-Centred Computing (HCC) section at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark.
- Jul 2026 Lab visit to the Law and Tech Lab at Maastricht University in the Netherlands.
- Jun 2026 Lab visit to the Human-Computer Interaction Research Group at Ulm University in Germany.
- May 2026 Accepted to UR2PhD as a graduate mentor and advised two undergraduate students on a research project.
- Apr 2026 Attended CHI 2026 in Barcelona, Spain, where I served as a SV for the first time.
- Aug 2025 Accepted to SICSS-Stanford, the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science, where I met two of my collaborators, Lei Cao and Celia Lee.
- Apr 2025 Attended CHI 2025 in Yokohama, Japan.
- Dec 2024 Attended the Stanford Design Thinking for User Experience Project Expo to prepare for the HCI course at Santa Clara.
- Sep 2024 Started my Ph.D. as a research assistant in the HCI Lab at Santa Clara University, advised by Prof. Kai Lukoff.
- May 2024 Attended my first CHI in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, a few months before starting the Ph.D.
Teaching
Courses I have TA'ed at Santa Clara University.
- CSEN 60, Introduction to Web Technologies Fall 2025
- CSEN 129, Human-Computer Interaction Winter 2025 and Winter 2026
- CSEN 161, Web Development Fall 2025, Winter 2026 and Spring 2026
- CSEN 174, Software Engineering Spring 2026
- CSEN 277, Human-Computer Interaction (graduate level) Spring 2025