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I am really excited to serve as a lecturer for the Intro to HCI Design course this fall semester. This will certainly constitute a great teaching experience for me!

I had such a great time serving as an AI in the Introduction to HCI Design course taught by my colleague and friend Patrycja Zdziarska (aka Trisha) this summer. Students learned about the foundations of HCI design and experienced first hand what entails to carry a project from initial phases of research and inquiry all…

After an exciting visit to the University of Pittsburgh this summer, I am so happy to start research work on stigma with a group of such talented undergraduate students! Via the i3 Program, I will serve as a team member and mentor for a year. The team will present the outcomes of the research next…

I gave a talk about my research to students of the iSchool Inclusion Institute (i3) Program at the University of Pittsburgh. We discussed potential research projects that we could work on during the following year. I was certainly excited to meet and talk to such a smart and interesting group of people!

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…