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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!