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Building intelligent tools that enhance user agency and facilitate informed decisions about well-being.

I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Columbia University working with Xuhai “Orson” Xu and Noémie Elhadad on multi-agent systems for Women’s health.

I prioritize building tools that enhance user agency and facilitate informed decisions about well-being in everyday contexts. This involves applying my expertise in human-computer interaction, AI, machine learning, statistical methods, and human physiology to a range of challenges, from designing novel multimodal health trackers to developing LLM-based agents for personalized goal creation and fulfillment.

I received my doctorate at the University of Toronto, advised by Khai N. Truong and Alex Mariakakis, where I focused on understanding how individuals engage with complex, multimodal personal data and developing user-centered designs and systems to help people navigate uncertainty and align tools with their diverse mental models. Previously, I completed my Bachelors and Masters in Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology where I worked with Thad Starner and Neha Kumar.

I am honored to have received several notable awards, including the Bill Buxton Outstanding Dissertation Award in HCI, Canadian CS Distinguished Dissertation Award, Google PhD Fellowship, Wolfond Fellowship, and GVU Distinguished Masters Student Award.

HCI LLM agents women's health