About Me

Hello 👋 I'm a PhD student in Informatics & Intelligent Systems Engineering at Indiana University Bloomington. My interests are in developing personalized computational models of cognition and affect. In my free time, I dabble in digital art, photography, and music. I'm also particularly interested in food, travel, and fitness.

Short Bio

Researcher by day 🧑🏻‍💻, Aspiring artist by night 🧑🏻‍🎨.

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Indiana University Bloomington

August 2020 · Present

Dual PhD Candidate in Informatics & Intelligent Systems Engineering (NSF-NRT Fellow)

Indiana University Bloomington

Working on enhancing our understanding of personalized cognition and affect through high resolution computational modeling (e.g. embeddings, networks, ML) with applications in HCI

Toyota Research Institute - Human Centered AI Team

September 2024 · December 2024

Research Intern

Toyota Research Institute - Human Centered AI Team

Worked on Human-AI Interaction research for enhancing design creativity

Sony - Human Sensing & Interaction Team

June 2024 · August 2024

Research Intern - Human Sensing & Interaction Team

Sony - Human Sensing & Interaction Team

Worked on vital sensing and emotion estimation algorithms research

Samsung Research America

January 2024 · May 2024

Research Intern - Digital Health Team

Samsung Research America

Developed non-invasive cardiac monitoring algorithms for wearable devices

Central European University - Department of Network and Data Science

September 2023 · December 2023

Visiting Researcher - NSF Accelnet Multinet Fellow

Central European University - Department of Network and Data Science

Workd on higher order network embeddings for understanding fMRI time series data

Samsung Research America

May 2023 · September 2023

Research Intern - Digital Health Team

Samsung Research America

Enhanced stress detection algorithms for wearable devices using morphological PPG signals

National Institute of Informatics

January 2023 · May 2023

Visiting Researcher - Kando Lab

National Institute of Informatics

Developed and piloted a physiological system for measuring engagement during museum visits

USC Institute for Creative Technologies

February 2020 · July 2020

Project Assistant - Affective Computing Group

USC Institute for Creative Technologies

Developed multimodal affective computing models for understanding psychological interviews

Neurolex Diagnostics

April 2019 · January 2020

Research Manager

Neurolex Diagnostics

Led research efforts and data science projects and data science consultations for clients including Harvard, Stanford, Biogen, LEO I-Lab.

Stanford SNAP Lab

August 2018 · June 2019

Research Assistant

Stanford SNAP Lab

Piloted machine learning analysis across collected psychiatric data (digital phenotyping, voice, survey data) for adolescent depression research.

UW DigiPsych Lab

April 2018 · June 2019

Research Assistant

UW DigiPsych Lab

Led lab's data science team on voice biomarkers research for depression, suicidal ideation, and cognitive decline.

NVIDIA Mixed Signal Team

March 2018 · March 2019

Mixed Signal Intern

NVIDIA Mixed Signal Team

Deployed automation framework to accelerate data collection and analysis from key GPU endpoints, eventually used in analytics engine for understanding silicon health

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