I am a Ph.D. Student under Dr. Chris North and co-advised by Dr. Yalong Yang in the Information Visualizations group at Virginia Tech starting in 2021 Fall.

Prior to my doctoral studies, I obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Indiana University, Bloomington.

My research encompasses various topics within VR/AR, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), and Visualization (VIS). I actively contribute to these communities and regularly publish my work in leading venues such as IEEE TVCG, ACM CHI, and IEEE ISMAR.

In addition to my research endeavors, I hold the position of A.I. Research Engineer, where my responsibilities involve investigating optimal values for object detection in real-world indoor image datasets.

Publications

ACM CHI 2024

Evaluating Navigation and Comparison Performance of Computational Notebooks on Desktop and in Virtual Reality

ISMAR 2023

Multi-Focus Querying of the Human Genome Information on
Desktop and in Virtual Reality: an Evaluation

IEEE TVCG 2023

This is the Table I Want!
Interactive Data Transformation on Desktop and in Virtual Reality

Work Experience

Graduate Research Assistant
(under Dr. Chris North and Dr. Yalong Yang)

  • Research on data visualizations and human-computer interaction, especially for VR/AR environments.

  • Work Period : Aug 2021 ~ Present.

A.I. Research Engineer

  • Built, trained, and tested a data set for a team of 4 in order to improve the quality of detecting objects from indoor images in the real world.

  • Research on object recognition algorithms such as Yolact, PSPNet, and Mask-RCNN using Tensorflow.

  • Experienced in handling NVDIA’s A.I Infrastructure, NVIDIA DGX A100.

  • Work Period: Aug 2020 ~ Nov 2021.

Student Research Assistant
(under Dr. Demian Cho)

  • Researched information processing in spiking neural networks.

  • Built a statistical data processing pipeline.

  • Work Period: Jan 2018 ~ Nov 2018.

Student Research Assistant
(under Dr. Beth Weinman)

  • Assisting a research project of Dr. Elizabeth Weinman in the Geology department

  • Built a website with that user interface allowing users to find values from the "Hjulstrom curve" that doesn't have an analytic expression.

  • Work Period: Dec 2015 ~ May 2016