Published papers include: 'XR-First Design for Productivity: A Conceptual Framework', 'A Culturally-diverse Multilingual Multimodal Video Benchmark & Model', etc., and participated in projects such as TalkToMe, Ray Tracer, Blight-EYE, etc.
Research Experience
Graduate Research Assistant at ISUE Lab, UCF, Aug 2021 – Present, working on RNN data augmentation methods and VR object visualization and selection; Research Assistant at Unknot.id, Aug 2022 – Jan 2024, evaluating state-of-the-art SLAM solutions and collecting Lidar and Vicon motion tracking data; AR Unity Developer at Flairr Labs, Sep 2019 – May 2021, developing multiplayer AR mini-games; Undergraduate Research Assistant at UCF, Oct 2018 – May 2021, processing gesture data and conducting user studies.
Education
PhD in Computer Science, Expected 2026, University of Central Florida, advised by Dr. Joseph J. LaViola Jr.; MS in Computer Science, 2023, University of Central Florida; BS in Computer Science, 2021, University of Central Florida.
Background
Computer Science PhD Candidate, researching in Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and XR. Current research focuses on building multimodal conversational virtual agents and developing generative models for human motion to predict XR task performance. Has experience with real-time ML pipelines, gesture recognition, synthetic data augmentation, and perception studies in VR.
Miscellany
Interests include data synthesis, intelligent conversational agents, interaction methods in VR, and gestural input.