Education

• PhD, Human-Centered Computing. Georgia Institute of Technology. 2020

  Thesis: Designing Collaborative Mobile Health Experiences for Adolescent Patients.
  Advisor: Lauren Wilcox, Co-advisor: Rosa Arriaga

• MHCI, Human-Computer Interaction. Carnegie Mellon University. 2014
• BSc, Cognitive Science. University of California, San Diego. 2012

  Honors Thesis: Multimodal Cues For Desktop Workspace Interaction.
  Advisor: James D. Hollan.

Experience

• NLM Postdoctoral Researcher. University of Washington. Sep 2020 - Present
  • Expected to explore the intersection of patient-clinician communication, clinical decision support, and NLP.
• PhD Research Intern. Microsoft Research AI. Apr - Jul 2020
  • Designed and developed system to help product teams accelerate the pace of AI prototyping and testing.
• Graduate Research Assistant. Georgia Institute of Technology. 2014 - 2020
  • Designed and deployed two functional mobile health systems (Rapport and CO-OP)
    to support chronically ill patients’ health management.
  • Applied quantitative and qualitative user research methods in various settings.
  • Managed IRB documentation work across two university hospitals and Georgia Tech.
  • Published nine peer-reviewed papers in leading conference and journals.
  • Co-founded Health Experience and Applications Lab.
• Research Lead. Boeing Research Co-Op @ CMU. Jan - Aug 2014
  • Conducted research and designed new approaches to streamline communication on
    the 737 line at the Boeing Renton factory.
  • Devised and applied qualitative research methods with factory employees.
  • Led negotiations with Boeing IT management to gain access to factory floor.
  • Submitted high-fidelity prototype, concept video, website, and two internal technical
    reports as final deliverables.
• Research Assistant. Department of Biomedical Informatics @ UCSD. 2012
  • Conducted usability studies, and designed and evaluated Schema Builder-a web user
    interface that allows clinicians to define custom NLP schemas to extract important
    information from unstructured patient records.
  • Systematically investigated clinicians' workflow patterns via cognitive walkthroughs.
  • Defined use case scenarios for adverse drug events and pathology reports of colonoscopy exams.

Teaching

• Graduate Teaching Assistant. Georgia Institute of Technology. Spring 2018

  User Interface Design (Instructor: Lauren Wilcox).

• Guest Lecturer. Georgia Institute of Technology. Fall 2017

  "Designing Health Information Technologies to Engage Families in Data-Driven Medical Communication.”
  Personal Health Informatics (Instructor: Lauren Wilcox).

• Graduate Teaching Assistant. Georgia Institute of Technology. Spring 2017

  Issues in Human-Centered Computing (Instructor: Betsy DiSalvo).

• Graduate Teaching Assistant. Georgia Institute of Technology. Spring 2016

  User Interface Design (Instructor: Lauren Wilcox).

• Graduate Teaching Assistant. Carnegie Mellon University. Summer 2014

  HCI for Technology Executives (Instructor: Brad Myers).

• Graduate Teaching Assistant. Carnegie Mellon University. Spring 2014

  Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Technology (Instructor: Edward Engler).

• Undergraduate Teaching Assistant. University of California, San Diego. Winter 2012

  Cognitive Design Studio (Instructor: James D. Hollan).

Invited Talks

• GVU Brown Bag Seminar. Georgia Institute of Technology. Jan 23, 2020

  "Personalizing Health Management Through Human-Centered Data Augmentation"

• NSF REU Civic Data Science Seminar. Georgia Institute of Technology. Jul 11, 2018

  "Using Data-Driven Approaches to Design Interactive Patient-Centered Technologies"

Mentoring

• Gurudutt Perichetla Georgia Tech MS HCI (C). Fall 2019
• Aarti Thapar Georgia Tech BS CS. Fall 2019
• Kimberly Do Georgia Tech BS CS (C). 2019 - 2020
• Xuejin (Serena) Tan Georgia Tech MS HCI (C). Fall 2018
• Alan Lu Georgia Tech BS CS (C). Spring 2018
• Chaitanya Bapat Georgia Tech MS CS. Now SDE @ Amazon AWS 2017 - 2018
• Udaya Lakshmi Georgia Tech MS HCI. Now HCC PhD @ GT Fall 2018
• Meeshu Agnihotri Georgia Tech MS HCI. Now UX Designer @ Apervita 2016 - 2017
• Max Silverman Georgia Tech MS HCI. Now UX Researcher @ Yahoo 2016 - 2017
• Alex Ryan Georgia Tech MS HCI. Now UX Designer @ Roadie Fall 2016
• Clayton Feustel Georgia Tech MS CS. Now CS PhD @ GT 2015 - 2016
• Daniel Machado Georgia Tech MS HCI. Now User Researcher @ Twitter 2014 - 2015
• Meghna Mehta Georgia Tech MS HCI. Now UX Designer @ Striim Fall 2014

Service

• Peer Review
  • CHI: 2014 -
  • CSCW: 2015 -
  • Pervasive Health: 2015 -
  • IMWUT: 2019 -
• Volunteering
  • Conference Student Volunteer. Pervasive Health 2012, CHI 2015
  • Workshop Organizer. Workshop on Interactive Systems in Healthcare (WISH 2017)
• Working Group
  • Member. American Academy of Pediatrics Council on Clinical Information Technology
• Georgia Tech
  • President. College of Computing, Korean Student Association (KSA)
• UCSD
  • Founding Member. User Experience San Diego (UXSD)
  • Officer. Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association (KSEA)

Awards

• GVU Foley Scholars. Georgia Institute of Technology ($5000). 2019
• George Family Foundation Fellowship. Georgia Institute of Technology ($3500). 2019
• Editor's Choice. Journal of American Informatics Association. 2018
• Department Honors with Distinction. University of California, San Diego. 2012
• Provost Honors List. University of California, San Diego. 2010-2012