I design and build interactive systems for wait-learning: encouraging micro-productivity during diverse waiting moments.
I am a PhD student in Computer Science at MIT in the User Interface Design group, focusing on human-computer interaction. My research aims to help busy people make progress towards their goals by enabling micro-interactions that blend fluidly with daily life. My work bridges a variety of areas including online education, attention and task management, and productivity.
Previously, I earned a master's degree in Education and a bachelor's degree 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 collaborated with members of the Berkeley Institute of Design on projects related to intelligent computer interfaces for childhood vocabulary acquisition. I also helped developed UC Berkeley's introductory computer science course for non-majors and taught at the UC Berkeley Computer Science Self-Paced Center.
I am a PhD student in Computer Science at MIT in the User Interface Design group, focusing on human-computer interaction. My research aims to help busy people make progress towards their goals by enabling micro-interactions that blend fluidly with daily life. My work bridges a variety of areas including online education, attention and task management, and productivity.
Previously, I earned a master's degree in Education and a bachelor's degree 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 collaborated with members of the Berkeley Institute of Design on projects related to intelligent computer interfaces for childhood vocabulary acquisition. I also helped developed UC Berkeley's introductory computer science course for non-majors and taught at the UC Berkeley Computer Science Self-Paced Center.
News
| 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 |