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Last updated December 18th 2025
Research Philosophy: "We make solutions that work that people want."
UC Merced Philosophy: "Fiat Lux (Let there be light.)"
Replacing Humans for Therapists, Friends, Lovers, and more!
Decline in Reading Comprehension
Decline in Attention Span due to Social Media & Smart Phones
Ranked #2 for research engagement (reads) within UC Merced's Computer Science & Engineering Department on Research Gate on December 14th (Info)
Automation
Automation of Plant Surveys
Environmental Monitoring
Climate Change
Water Crisis in California
Diversity
Respecting Cultural Differences
Breaking Through the Language Barriers
Political Science
Construal Level Theory
Climate Change Skeptism
Labs: VICE Lab, MESA Lab, Dr. Andrea Joyce's Lab, Digital Camera & Computer Vision Lab at National Taiwan University
Research Centers: CITRIS, AgAID, The Center for Methane Emission Research and Innovation (CMERI), VISTA
UC Merced Natural Reserves
UC Agriculture and Natural Resources
Collaborators:
Mi^3 Lab, Climatology Lab, Parallel and Distributed Systems Lab
Not With A Bug, But With A Sticker
Characterizing the Emergent Disregard of Truth in Large Language Models
AI-generated research paper fabrication and plagiarism in the scientific community (the referred to by No artificial intelligence authors, for now is iconic)