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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! :sparkles:
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!