I successfully defended my dissertation: "Designing Computerized Support for Identifying and Treating Patients with Life-Threatening Injuries During Medical Emergencies".  Special thanks to my advisor, Dr. Aleksandra Sarcevic, and committee members: Dr. Jina Huh-Yoo, Dr. Afsaneh Razi, Dr. Christopher MacLellan (Georgia Tech), and Dr. Krzysztof Gajos (Harvard University).  

I attended CHI 2024 to present two pieces of work: (1) our ToCHI paper on transitioning cognitive aids into decision-support platforms and (2) a workshop paper on using generative AI to support the sensemaking of genetic professionals during rare disease diagnosis (this work was done during my summer internship at MSR).

I had the fantastic opportunity to intern at Microsoft Research this summer! I worked with Dr. Amanda Hall, Dr. Ashley Mae Conard, and Hope Twede on developing an AI assistant to support genetic professionals in analyzing whole genome sequencing data for rare disease diagnosis. 

Two new papers accepted at ACM DIS 2023: (1) a full paper on supporting awareness of dynamic data in clinical checklists and (2) a work-in-progess paper about designing computerized support for decision making about life-saving interventions.  I am also excited to be selected to participate in the Doctoral Consortium at DIS!

Two new papers accepted! First, our paper, "Transitioning Cognitive Aids into Decision Support Platforms: Requirements and Design Guidelines" was accepted by the ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI) Journal. Second, our case study, "Near-Live Simulations to the Rescue: Lessons Learned from Using Alternative Simulation Approaches for Evaluating New Technologies", was accepted at ACM CHI 2023! 

I was invited to speak at PhillyCHI's World Usability Day, where I gave a talk titled "Developing Decision Support Features for Cognitive Aids Used During Time-Critical Medical Work: Challenges and Design Opportunities".  Thank you to PhillyCHI for organizing this event -- it was so nice to meet with other HCI researchers in the area!

This summer, I was a UX Research Intern on the Infectious Disease team at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. I conducted an exploratory study to better understand a group of potential product users for a genomic epidemiology analysis tool.  After conducting a research prioritization workshop and nine semi-structured interviews, I proposed three product recommendations to key stakeholders. 

Excited to announce that I have been awarded the PhD Research Excellence award for the College of Computing and Informatics!

Our paper, "'Pop-Up Alerts are the Bane of My Existence': Designing Alerts for Cognitive Aids Used in Time-Critical Medical Settings"
has been accepted to the late-breaking work track at CHI 2022! This paper was co-authored with Hua Cui and Dr. Sarcevic. Looking forward to attending the conference in New Orleans.

Our paper has been accepted to the GROUP 2022 conference! The paper, "Alerts as Coordination Mechanisms: Implications for Designing Alerts for Multidisciplinary and Shared Decision Making", was co-authored with Dr. Aleksandra Sarcevic and Lynn Almengor. Excited to (hopefully) present this paper in Sanibel Island.

Excited to announce that I have been awarded Drexel University's Outstanding Graduate Mentorship Award!

Our research paper, "Designing interactive alerts to improve recognition of critical events in medical emergencies", has been accepted to the 2021 Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) conference! I co-authored this paper by Aleksandra Sarcevic, Lauren Chung, Issa Zakeri, Emily Alberto, Zachary Milestone, Ivan Marsic, and Randall Burd.

Excited to announce that I have been selected as an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship recipient! This fellowship provides full funding for three years of research.

Our case study, "Transitioning to Remote User-Centered Design Activities in the Medical Field During a Pandemic" (co-authored with Leah Kulp & Aleksandra Sarcevic), has been accepted to CHI 2021! I look forward to presenting this work at the conference in May 2021.

Excited to announce that we won the best poster award at the Drexel University Emerging Graduate Scholars Conference for our work "Understanding the Effects of Teamwork on Digital Checklist Use".  I worked on this project with Leah Kulp, Emily Mapelli and Dr. Aleksandra Sarcevic.

Our late-breaking work, "Understanding Digital Checklist Use Through Team Communication" (co-authored with Leah Kulp, Emily Mapelli and Dr. Aleksandra Sarcevic) has been accepted to CHI 2020. I'm excited to present this work as a poster at the conference in Hawaiʻi!

I am excited to announce that I have been selected as a participant for the 2020 CRA-WP Grad Cohort for Women Workshop in New Orleans. I look forward to meeting the other attendees at the conference in New Orleans!

Joined Drexel University as a PhD student in Dr. Sarcevic's Interactive Systems for Healthcare Research Lab.