I am a PhD student in Technology and Social Behavior at Northwestern University, advised by Prof. Karan Ahuja in the SPICE Lab. Previously, I earned an M.S. in Computer Science at the University of Chicago working with Prof. Ken Nakagaki (AxLab), an M.Des. in Human-Computer Interaction from the IIT Institute of Design, and a B.S. in Mathematics from Renmin University of China.

My research follows two threads. The first builds real-time machine learning systems for camera-lite AR, guided by the idea of minimum sufficient sensing: recovering body pose, motion, and spatial context on-device from the always-on, power-efficient IMUs already embedded in consumer devices (e.g., watch, glasses, phone). The second explores LLM-enabled novel interactions — designing applications and end-to-end pipelines that bring generative models into tangible, spatial, and fabrication workflows.

My path to research started in design. After training as a designer and building shape-changing tangible interfaces at AxLab, I now work in the opposite direction — making physical movement digital. That earlier side of my work lives in my design portfolio.