| Sep 26, 2025 | I am attending UIST 2025 in Busan, Korea! Please check out the workshop on longitudinal evaluations of AI systems that I helped organize and SQUIRE. I’d love to talk to any prospective students and collaborators! |
| Sep 22, 2025 | I am joining Purdue CS as an assistant professor starting Spring 2026. I am looking to work with highly motivated students. Boiler Up! |
| Sep 30, 2024 | Thrilled to share that I’ve been promoted from “senior intern” to Research Scientist at Apple! I’ve loved working with the Human-Centered Machine Intelligence group on HCI, UI modeling, and accessibility during my PhD. Excited for what’s next! |
| Jun 27, 2024 | Back to Pittsburgh where I passed my PhD dissertation defense! My dissertation, Computational Understanding of User Interfaces would not have been possible without all the amazing support I’ve gotten throughout my PhD. |
| Jun 16, 2024 | First time attending NAACL 2024 in Mexico City, Mexico. Amazing city and perfect place to present our work on finetuning LLMs to produce higher-quality UI designs, UICoder. |
| May 11, 2024 | Back in Honolulu, Hawaii for CHI 2024. Great time attending the Computational UI workshop! |
| Mar 22, 2024 | I had a blast attending IUI for the first time in Greenville, South Carolina. I presented my paper FrameKit. Incredibly fortunate that it was chosen to receive a Best Paper Award amongst all the amazing work presented there! |
| Oct 26, 2023 | Excited to attend the UIST 2023 conference next week in San Francisco! Come check out my paper Never-ending Learning of User Interfaces and the Student Innovation Contest called Beyond Words that I helped organize. |
| Oct 24, 2023 | I gave a shortened version of my talk called Computational Understanding of User Interfaces at the BiD Seminar. Great to meet all the HCI researchers there! |
| Oct 06, 2023 | I’m giving a talk about my research called Computational Understanding of User Interfaces at Saarland University. Excited to connect with all the HCI researchers there! |
| Sep 24, 2023 | I’m attending the 10th Heidelberg Laureate Forum as a young researcher. Looking forward to connecting with and learning from laureates and young researchers in computer science and math! |
| Jul 29, 2023 | Excited to attend the AI&HCI Workshop of ICML 2023, for which I served as an area chair. I’ll be presenting a poster about my latest research called Towards Never-ending Learning of User Interfaces. |
| Apr 25, 2023 | Presenting WebUI at CHI 2023 in Hamburg, Germany. Honored to have been recognized with an honorable mention award! |
| Dec 05, 2022 | Started internship with the UI Understanding team at Apple AIML |
| Oct 29, 2022 | Attended the UIST 2022 conference in Bend, Oregon. Listened to great talks, tried out some cool demos, and went hiking. |
| Oct 20, 2022 | I added my own Statement of Purpose to the amazing collection on CS PhD SOP website. Hope it can be a useful resource for those applying to CS PhD programs. Good luck! |
| Aug 10, 2022 | Arrived in Toronto for a Fall internship at Meta Reality Labs. Excited to work on user interfaces for AR and explore Toronto! |
| Aug 04, 2022 | Wrapping up an awesome summer as a mentor for the CMU HCII REU program. Lucky to work with amazing interns! |
| May 06, 2022 | Attended CHI 2022 and the Computational UI Workshop. First in-person conference in a long time - great to see everyone! |
| Dec 10, 2021 | I wrote a blog post on the CMU Machine Learning Blog about machines that understanding user interfaces. |
| Oct 10, 2021 | Presented Screen Parsing at my first UIST. Really well done virtual conference. Got to meet a lot of people in the community and learn about their work. |
| May 13, 2021 | Honored that I got to work on Screen Recognition, which won Best Paper at CHI 2021! |
| Apr 23, 2021 | Check out my project on accessibility feature recommendation that won Best Technical Paper at Web4All 2021! Also had the opportunity to talk about my work on WebABLE TV |
| Sep 30, 2020 | Honored that my work was selected as a student finalist in Fast Company’s 2020 Innovation by Design awards! |
| Apr 25, 2020 | Bummed CHI 2020 was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Was looking forward to presenting my paper which won an Honorable Mention award. |
| Oct 28, 2019 | Attended and volunteered at ASSETS 2019. Met a lot of cool people working on important problems. |
| Sep 14, 2019 | Had a great time attending Ubicomp 2019. |
| May 15, 2019 | Honored to have received the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship! Read more about my work here. |
| May 05, 2019 | Attending CHI 2019 for the first time! |
| Aug 20, 2018 | Started PhD at the CMU HCI Institute. |
| Aug 12, 2018 | I’ll be attending Ubicomp 2018 as a student volunteer! |
| Jun 02, 2018 | Excited to start my summer internship at Google AI’s Perception team! |
| May 05, 2018 | Graduated from Georgia Tech with B.S. in Computer Science! |