I am a Research Scientist at Google, specializing in human-computer interaction (HCI) on the Google Brain team. My research aims to make artificial intelligence systems usable to human beings, so that human-AI interactions are more productive, enjoyable, and fair.
I graduated with a PhD in Computer Science at MIT, where I designed and built interactive systems for wait-learning to encourage micro-productivity (e.g. learning vocabulary words) during diverse waiting moments (e.g. while waiting for instant message replies). These systems have been deployed to thousands of people worldwide, as well as publicized in TechCrunch, The Boston Globe, and MIT News.
Previously, I earned an M.A. in Education and a B.A. in Human Biology at Stanford University. As an undergraduate research assistant at the Stanford Center for Infant Studies, I investigated how children acquire language at a young age. I later helped developed UC Berkeley's introductory computer science course for non-majors and taught at the UC Berkeley Computer Science Self-Paced Center.
As one who started coding at age 24, I feel strongly that it's never too late to learn computer science, and that some of the world's best innovations come from the humanities powered by computing!
I graduated with a PhD in Computer Science at MIT, where I designed and built interactive systems for wait-learning to encourage micro-productivity (e.g. learning vocabulary words) during diverse waiting moments (e.g. while waiting for instant message replies). These systems have been deployed to thousands of people worldwide, as well as publicized in TechCrunch, The Boston Globe, and MIT News.
Previously, I earned an M.A. in Education and a B.A. in Human Biology at Stanford University. As an undergraduate research assistant at the Stanford Center for Infant Studies, I investigated how children acquire language at a young age. I later helped developed UC Berkeley's introductory computer science course for non-majors and taught at the UC Berkeley Computer Science Self-Paced Center.
As one who started coding at age 24, I feel strongly that it's never too late to learn computer science, and that some of the world's best innovations come from the humanities powered by computing!
News
Dec, 2018 | Paper on doctor-centered tools for grappling with imperfect medical AI algorithms accepted to CHI 2019\ span> |
Dec, 2018 | Paper on example-based machine learning explanations accepted to IUI 2019\ span> |
Nov, 2018 | Serving on the CHI 2019 Program Committee\ span> |
May, 2018 | Paper on TCAV (new ML interpretability method) accepted to ICML 2018\ span> |
Oct, 2017 | Started as an HCI Research Scientist at Google |
May, 2017 | Received "Excellent Reviewer Award" at CHI 2017 |
Apr, 2017 | Defended PhD Thesis! |
Dec, 2016 | Journal paper on WaitSuite accepted to TOCHI 2017. |
Jun - Aug, 2016 | Visiting student at the Stanford HCI group. |
Feb 9, 2016 | CHI 2016 paper on microtask chains won a Best Paper Honorable Mention award. |
Dec 21, 2015 | Serving on the Program Committee for CHI 2016 Late-Breaking Work. |
Dec 15, 2015 | Full paper on microtask chains accepted to CHI 2016. |
Nov 10, 2015 | Attended the Rising Stars workshop for aspiring female researchers |
Nov 8, 2015 | Attended the Doctoral Symposium at UIST 2015. |
Jul 29, 2015 | Gave DUB seminar talk at the University of Washington. | video |
Jun - Sep, 2015 | Summer internship at Microsoft Research, working on micro-productivity. |
Apr 24, 2015 | Presented wait-learning at CHI 2015 in Seoul, Korea. |
Apr 23, 2015 | Congrats to Anji Ren (my undergrad mentee) who won 2nd place in the CHI 2015 student research competition for her pull-to-learn project! |
Dec 15, 2014 | Full paper on wait-learning accepted to CHI 2015. |
Oct 9, 2014 | Presented my research at the Grace Hopper Conference PhD Forum in HCI |
Apr 27 - May 1, 2014 | Attended CHI 2014 in Toronto, Canada. Presented our work-in-progress paper on wait-learning. |
Mar 20, 2014 | My story of how I became a computer scientist was featured in Khan Academy's Meet the Computing Professional series |
Aug 25 - Aug 31, 2013 | Attended SLaTe 2013 in Grenoble, France and Interspeech 2013 in Lyon, France. Presented our paper on Enhancing Speech Recognition in Fast-Paced Educational Games using Contextual Cues |
June, 2013 | Submitted my masters thesis on Adapting Existing Games for Education Using Speech Recognition |
Apr 27 - May 2, 2013 | CHI 2013 in Paris, France. Presented my work on "Adapting Arcade Games for Learning" in the student research competition. |
Jan 19, 2013 | Won 1st place award in the Palantir Scholarship for Women in Technology. Featured in Palantir news story. |
Jan 13 - Jan 14, 2013 | Visited Palantir headquarters in Palo Alto, CA as one of 9 finalists in the Palantir Scholarship for Women in Technology. Attended Bay Area Girl Geek Dinner. |
Oct 16, 2013 | Presented my work on game-based learning at Lincoln Laboratories / Defense Language Institute |