News
2026
Joined the Johns Hopkins Center for Digital Health & AI
Started as a Postdoctoral Fellow, working on next-generation AI models, responsible AI, and AI implementation in healthcare.
Build-A-Being Yourself published at HCI International 2026
Our web-based system for authoring embodied conversational agents in healthcare research, used across NIH-funded studies.
Defended my dissertation
A change in perspective: Exploring interaction paradigms in AI and virtual human systems that engage users and promote mental health.
Interviewed by The Independent Alligator
Talked about students turning to ChatGPT for mental health support in When ChatGPT becomes a crisis helpline.
2025
Alter egos alter engagement published in Frontiers in Digital Health
Perspective-taking can improve how much, and how deeply, people disclose to AI chatbots that promote mental wellbeing.
Defended my dissertation proposal
Alter egos alter behavior: Embodied experiences to improve virtual human mental health interventions.
2024
Presented A Sense of Urgency on the Sense of Agency at IEEE ISMAR 2024
Published in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.
Published in Frontiers in Virtual Reality
What my bias meant for my embodiment: An investigation on virtual embodiment in desktop-based virtual reality.
2022
Passed my qualifying examinations
Qualifying manuscript: The cultural tailoring of virtual human interventions: A systematic review.
Presented Strafing Gain at IEEE ISMAR 2022
A redirected walking technique that shifts users along a diagonal while keeping their orientation.
Presented at ACM IVA 2022
How does a virtual human earn your trust? Guidelines to improve willingness to self-disclose to intelligent virtual agents.