I'm an Informatics PhD student in the Interactive and Collaborative Technologies concentration at UC Irvine. My advisor is Professor Gloria Mark. Broadly, I am interested in virtual communities, ubiquitous computing and user interfaces. A dominant thread in my research is how technologly both affects and is effected by people. I find it fascinating that technology can wrought forth communities in situations otherwise difficult. I enjoy utilizing a combination of both quantitative and qualitative methods in my research. In addition, I like to design and construct innovate user interfaces.
During my undergrad, I did research on mobile computing as a UC EAP student in Japan at the University of Osaka's Nishio-Lab. Afterwards, I went to UCLA and joined the Networked & Embedded Systems Laboratory as a graduate student to do research in sensor network applications. I have done summer research internships at Sharp Corporation's System Technology Development Center and at IBM's Collaborative User Experience group.For more details on my current and past research, please take a gander at the research section. I very much enjoy doing collaborative research and welcome any inquiries or comments. Email is the best way to contact me.
