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An article covering the use of participatory design in research with diverse populations has been published in the 2019 spring issue of IEEE Xplore! The article highlights the main takeaways and insights derived from the Design4Diversity workshop that we organized during the PervasiveHealth 2018 Conference with Prof. Gabi Marcu (University of Michigan), Prof. Kay Connelly…

I am excited about the news that I will get to collaborate with the iSchool Inclusion Institute (i3) program as a research advisor for their 2019 cohort! The i3 program is hosted by the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Computing and Information. More information about the program can be found here.

Here’s a Medium article covering our latest research on sex-social app design around HIV status disclosure tensions! It was such a great experience to collaborate with first author Mark Warner and co-authors Jo Gibbs, Ann Blandford from University College London, and Christina Chung from Indiana University Bloomington.

I will talk about graduate education and prospective careers in the field of Informatics to undergraduate students on Thursday, Feb. 28th. The event is organized by the Department of Diversity, Equity & Multicultural Affairs. It is certainly going to be a delicious opportunity to share my experiences in academia and beyond! You can read more…

I attended the “2019 Preparing Future Faculty” conference organized by the Indiana University Graduate School. This was a one-day event packed with talks and roundtable sessions where faculty and researchers from different universities and colleges shared their insights and tips for leading successful careers inside and outside of academia. Topics ranged from navigating the job…

I’m glad to have been granted a travel award from the Graduate Informatics Student Association (GISA). This money will certainly help me out with my research endeavors! Thank you GISA! 🙂

I will be collaborating with colleagues from the Complex Systems track to do research that explores the intersection of social media and health. More information of this challenge can be found here.