2026/03/16 — Our workshop paper, Structuring User Preferences for Task Delegation and Proactivity in Assistive Meal Preparation: Insights from a User Study, was presented at LEAP-HRI 2026 at HRI 2026. This work marks our first application of Quadratic Surveys to robotics, focusing on task trade-offs, delegation, and user agency in assistive meal preparation.

2026/01/30 — Excited to share that our paper, Control in Context: How Smart Home Users Navigate Proxy-based Schemes, will be presented at CHI 2026.

2026/01/21 — I am serving as Lead TA for CS411 at UIUC for Spring 2026.

2025/09/24 — “Generative Propaganda” preprint is now public. Here’s a slice of the work I did during my MSR Special Projects internship with an amazing team.

2025/06/09 — My Undergraduate student mentee, Pranay Midha’s poster on the first step to visualizing Quadratic Surveys is accepted as a poster at CI 2025. Can’t wait to share our preliminary findings with you.

2025/05/20 — So….why does Quadratic Voting and Quadratic Surveys work? Our latest findings will be presented at CI 2025 in August 2025 and you can take a read here. Let’s chat in San Diego if you are there!

2025/01/17 — The first paper on designing and validating interface for Quadratic Surveys (and also Quadratic Voting) will be presented at CHI 2025. The full paper can be found here.

2024/12/16 — Check out here! I can finally officially annouce Here@Illinois as the coolest tool for staffs to manage their courses and events!

2024/08/27 — My internship project at Microsoft Research with the Software Analysis and Intelligence in Engineering Systems (SAINTES) Group is now readable through this tech report where I outline my iterative prompt priming approach for Generative Expert Metric Generation with Large Language Models.

2024/05/01 — I am honored to recieve my second Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award from the CS Department in addition to the campus wide TA ranked as excellence recognition for CS598SPH/SMC Research Methods in HCI that I TAed in Fall 2023!