May 2025 – August 2025: Member of Technical Staff (Intern), Conversational AI on Product Engineering Team at character.ai
September 2024 – Present: Research Assistant developing BizChat, a chat-based generative AI tool for small business owners; preparing user study results for CHIWORK submission under Prof. Yasmine Kotturi
June 2024 – August 2024: Summer Research Assistant in Berkeley SUPERB RAI Program; built a visual interactive notebook for RAG pipeline iteration and conducted a user study with 12 AI engineers, advised by Prof. Aditya Parameswaran and Shreya Shankar
October 2023 – May 2024: Research Assistant leading interviews with 11 local entrepreneurs to derive design principles for generative AI tools for small businesses; first-authored short paper published at ACM CSCW 2024, advised by Jeffrey Bigham and Yasmine Kotturi
May 2023 – August 2023: Amazon Summer Undergraduate Research Experience at CMU HCII; developed a React Native app with novel spreadsheet-like data input techniques and a live-chat wizarding tool using React and Firebase
Fall 2023 – Spring 2024: Research Assistant conducting a comparative case study on election integrity and mis/disinformation in Ireland and the U.S. 2024 elections, advised by Prof. David Hickton