Long Bio

I am a Senior Applied Scientist at Microsoft. My research spans collective decision-making, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), and human–AI interaction. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 2026, co-advised by Prof. Karrie Karahalios and Prof. Hari Sundaram.

My doctoral research introduced and empirically evaluated Quadratic Surveys, a preference-elicitation method that asks people to express the strength of their preferences through explicit tradeoffs. This work reflects a broader question that continues to guide my research: How can people use computational tools to make better decisions together? My work spans Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), and human–AI interaction, including preference elicitation and collective choice, control and user roles in smart environments, LLM-assisted organizational metrics, and generative AI in high-stakes decision-making.

I also received my M.S. in Computer Science from UIUC in 2020. During my master’s studies, I worked with Prof. Aditya Parameswaran and Prof. Karahalios on the DataSpread project. I received my B.Sc. in Computer Science, with a minor in Business Economics, from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. As an undergraduate researcher in the Husky Team, supervised by Prof. James Cheng, I studied distributed nearest-neighbor search.

Outside of research, I build production systems and teach. I co-founded and served as tech lead for Here@Illinois, a cloud attendance system serving more than 500 teaching staff and 6,000 student enrollments. At UIUC, I taught courses ranging from programming and databases to HCI research methods, earning the Computer Science Department’s Outstanding Teaching Assistant award in 2020 and 2024. Before joining Microsoft, I completed two research internships at Microsoft Research, two software engineering internships at Salesforce, and a machine learning research internship at KKBOX.

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