I am a PhD student at the Department of Informatics, Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Science, the University of California, Irvine. My research interests are human computer interaction (HCI) and ubiquitous computing. I am particularly interested in technologies and issues, such as personalization, privacy, around assistive technologies that improve the quality of life of people living with impaired abilities due to illness or aging. I am still at the very early stage of figuring out what I will focus in graduate school. If there is anything you want to share or discuss, you can always reach me through one of the means listed in the "Contact" section.

Before coming to UC Irvine, I was a web developer in New Zealand. And yes, New Zealand is indeed as beautiful as you have heard.

I earned my Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with Honors at the Department of Computer Science, the University of Auckland. My Honor dissertation supervisor was Dr. Beryl Plimmer. In UC Irvine, I have worked with Professor Alfred Kobsa and Professor Yunan Chen on diabetes patient personal management tools.

• Personal rules in diabetes self-management
  One important part of diabetes self-management is to see the patterns between diet, exercise and glucose levels. Experienced patients apply this knowledge to control their sugar levels and minimize the use of insulin injection. In this project, we aim to create systems that assist such a practise. This ongoing project is supervised by Professor Alfred Kobsa, Professor Yunan Chen (both from Informatics, UC Irvine), and Professor Dara Sorkin (School of Medicine, UC Irinve). I am actively involved in designing the study, developing the software prototypes, data collection, and data analysis.
• Clinical information on a timeline
  Accumulated patient information from various sources over time can be hard to decode. Clinicians need to see the relation among events to hypothesize or verify theories. Temporal relations are useful clues for such an analysis. In this project, we conducted user studies and participatory design to explore requirements for a web system that visualizes temporal events. This ongoing project is supervised by Professor Wendy Chapman and Professor Robert El-Kareh (both from iDash, UC San Diego). As a 2012 summer intern, I was involved in the design and development of a prototype web system used in the study.

• 2012 Spring: TA for IN4MATX 45: Patterns of Software Construction
• 2012 Spring: TA for IN4MATX 123: Software Architecture
• 2012 Winter: TA for IN4MATX 117: Project in Software System Design
• 2011 Fall: TA for ICS 10: How Computers Work

• 2008 - 2011 Datacom (www.datacom.co.nz), Auckland, New Zealand
• 2007 - 2008 Hyro (www.hyro.com), Auckland, New Zealand
• 2005 - 2007 Intergen (www.intergen.co.nz), Auckland, New Zealand

Love travelling (who doesn't!). I also find myself spending a lot of my time on music, film. In terms of getting sweaty, I normally do my share by running, weight training, and playing badminton.

Office: 5051 Bren Hall (Bldg 314)
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