Experience

  1. Research Intern

    Microsoft Research
    • Research Intern at Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA.

  2. Ph.D. Research Intern

    Dolby Laboratories
    • Developed CompanionCast, a multi-agent conversational AI framework designed to enhance social co-viewing experiences through LLM-driven companion agents.
    • Integrated spatial audio processing into a multi-agent system to create immersive, realistic social interactions in group entertainment settings.
    • Implemented an LLM-as-the-judge evaluation pipeline to iterate on agent alignment and conversational quality.

  3. Research

    Meta x CMU MHCI Capstone
    • Designed Nova, an LLM-based assistant, to enhance knowledge sharing for the advancement of data centers, overcoming challenges by applying UX research techniques and prototyping, and culminating in a collaborative presentation at Meta’s Fremont office.

  4. Software Development Engineer Intern

    Amazon
    • Delivered E2E pipeline using AWS (Lambda, State Machines) for natural language understanding models’ test set release that reduced manual effort and total testing time by 50%

  5. Software Development Engineer Intern

    Amazon
    • Optimized automated long-running end-to-end integration tests for internal model release pipeline to a single command on cloud terminal and shortened manual testing time by 8 hours

  6. Software Engineer Co-op

    HubSpot
    • Delivered Zoom call transcription service to more than 121,000 customers across more than 120 countries and improved conference archive and content accessibility

  7. Software Engineer Intern

    Cognosos
    • Enhanced customers’ portal experience in tracking over 100,000 assets across multiple industries at a start-up

Education

  1. Ph.D. in Computer Science

    Georgia Institute of Technology
    School of Interactive Computing. Research in the Ka Moamoa Lab, advised by Prof. Josiah Hester.

  2. Master of Human-Computer Interaction

    Carnegie Mellon University
    GPA: 3.99/4.00. Advised by Prof. Sherry Tongshuang Wu.

  3. B.S. in Computer Science

    Georgia Institute of Technology
    Threads: Intelligence and People. Cumulative GPA: 3.94/4.00, Major GPA: 4.00/4.00. Undergraduate research advised by Prof. Gregory Abowd and Prof. Jennifer Kim.
Skills & Hobbies
Technical Skills
Python
Data analysis
Swift
SQL
Hobbies
Cooking
Dogs
Golf
Travel
Awards
Mini-Seed Grant ($5,000)
College of Computing, Georgia Tech / Dolby ∙ September 2025
Co-wrote the proposal with my advisor; awarded $5,000.
NSF Student Travel Award
IEEE/ACM CHASE ∙ June 2025
1st Place, Graduate Poster Symposium (Junior Student category)
College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology ∙ May 2025
Selected Participant, Global Young Scientists Summit
National Research Foundation, Singapore ∙ January 2022
1 of 1,000 selected participants, nominated by Student Innovation & Undergraduate Research, Georgia Tech.
President’s Undergraduate Research Award (PURA) — Salary Award
Georgia Tech ∙ September 2021
1 of 80 undergraduate awardees in Fall 2021 to receive a stipend for conducting research.
Faculty Honors
Georgia Tech ∙ May 2022
Awarded for earning a 4.0 academic average for the semester.
Grace Hopper Celebration Student Registration Scholarship
AnitaB.org ∙ September 2020
Languages
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