2025: Papers accepted to SIGCSE, Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology, HICSS (2), COLM (Social Simulation with LLMs workshop), ASSETS (workshop), ASIS&T (poster), INFORMS, CSCW (second paper), and ASIS&T Forging Ahead Symposium (2 presentations)
iConference ’25: Paper 'A Comparative Institutional Analysis of Software Accessibility Laws, Policies, and Guidelines' was a finalist for Best Research Poster Award (top 13%)
ASIS&T ’24: Paper 'Accessible Adventures: Teaching Accessibility to High School Students Through Games' received Honorable Mention for Best Long Paper (2nd out of 46, top 4.3%)
HICSS ’23: Paper 'AI Ethics Issues in Real World: Evidence from AI Incident Database' won Best Paper Award (11th out of 678, top 1.6%)
CSCW ’23: Co-authored 'Towards Equitable Online Participation: A Case of Older Adult Content Creators' Role Transition on Short-form Video Sharing Platforms'
Aug 2025: Paper on GenAI policies in Japanese universities ranked in SSRN Top Ten downloads (60 days) across three eJournals: EduRN, Innovation Practice, and Sociology of Education
Background
Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Systems and Cyber Security at the University of Texas at San Antonio
Leads the Information Technology Ethics and Accessibility (iTEA) Lab
Focuses on emerging ethics and accessibility challenges in information technologies, especially software and AI systems
Research interests include Human-centered AI, AI Ethics, Computer Accessibility, and Human-Computer Interaction
Aims to improve software and AI experiences for vulnerable populations through situated understanding and interventions in design, education, and governance