Education

- Ph.D in Media Arts & Sciences, MIT Media Lab, USA
- M.S. in Media Arts & Sciences, MIT Media Lab, USA
- B.S. in Computer Science, University of Notre Dame, USA
- B.A in Psychology (minor in Peace Studies), University of Notre Dame, USA

Work Experience

- [2023-2024] Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, USA
- [2016-2024] Researcher in the Personal Robots Group at MIT Media Lab, USA
- [2019] AI Research Fellow at United Nations's Global Pulse Initiative, USA

Bio

I am currently a research fellow at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. I completed my PhD from MIT Media Lab in the Personal Robots Group in the US, advised by Prof. Cynthia Breazeal. Prior to joining MIT Media Lab, I worked as a researcher in the Complex Network Lab advised by Prof. Tijana Milenkovic (2013-2015) and the Emotive Computing Lab advised by Prof. Sidney D’Mello (2015-2016) at the University of Notre Dame in the US. In Summer 2019, I worked as an AI research fellow at the UN Secretary-General’s Global Pulse Initiative on AI for development, humanitarian action, and peace.

Intellectual Pursuit

With the pursuit of intellectual unity, I am interested in taking cross-disciplinary approaches to seek answers to fundamental questions on human experience and extending the boundaries of human capacity.

My intellectual pursuit is concerned with problem framing, as it is with problem solving, motivated by an ultimate vision to understand ourselves, our human values, our human experience.

Research Vision

I design multi-faceted human experience augmented by socially intelligent machines by bridging and harnessing synergies from the technical and humanistic realms. Read More

Creative Practices

My creative interests range from multimedia art installations (e.g., NostalgiaBot) to VR for reducing prejudice (e.g., TransFormation), from poetry of science (e.g., To Be Understood) to photography work (e.g., solo traveling in East Africa).