I completed my summer internship as ASI Product intern at Edmentum, where I learned about education, psychometrics, the current products, and helped the team to solve the educational problems with AI by utilizing current prompt engineering and data science techniques.

Our qualitative project interviewing 8 people, submitted as a poster to HAI conference is accepted!

Our paper "Potentially theraupetic effects of telling and retelling meaningful life stories." in the Emotion section of the conference, got interesting questions!

Here you can access the paper!

I had a chance to attend to one-day long EduCHI pedagogy workshop in Bloomington!

This Monday, I had the great opportunity to participate in the Doctoral Consortium at Creativity & Cognition 2025! I have presented my ongoing research on how technology can support reflection on autobiographical memories.

See the paper here.

In my research, I explore how people engage with their unpleasant autobiographical memories and how digital technologies can support remembering and reflecting on these memories (See the paper below). I focus on differing cognitive styles—reflectors and ruminators—and how their needs diverge when using technology to make sense of emotionally varying experiences. Through interviews, critical reviews of existing tools, and co-design workshops, I aim to lay the groundwork for designing memory-based reflective technologies that embrace all emotions.

One of the projects I started in my master's with Dr. Junko Kanero has published in Current Psychology. You can access to the author-copy of our paper here!

In this paper we investigated whether individual differences in spatial ability influence people's time representation memory. You can see abstract below: 

"The representation of time depends heavily on spatial skills. Saj et al (Psychological Science, 25(1), 207–214, 2014) established that left-hemispatial neglect leads to a selective deficit in remembering past items, i.e., the left side of mental timeline. The current study extends the line of research to neurotypical individuals to explore how individual differences in spatial ability affect the memory of items and temporal information associated with the items. In this study, 76 neurotypical participants completed (1) Saj et al.’s memory task (2014), where they learned and remembered lists of items a man liked (i.e., past items) or will like (i.e., future items), and (2) the measures of spatial ability (Mental Rotation Test and Line Estimation Task). Our findings indicate that higher spatial ability predicted better memory performance in both the recall and recognition tests for time. To conclude, our study is among the first to demonstrate how individual differences in spatial ability may impact time representation and memory that rely on a mental timeline. Future studies are encouraged to further explore the influence of individual differences on time representation."

I am thrilled to announce that I have been selected as a Visiting Student Researcher for the Visiting Internship for Ph.D. Students (VIPS) Program at the Psychology Department of Princeton University. 

This summer, I will have the privilege of working with Dr. Diana Tamir on her exciting project about spontaneous thoughts.

I'll be spending my summer around Princeton, New Jersey, and New York. If you're in the area, feel free to reach out—I'd love to connect!

I am the 3rd place winner of CHI'24 Student Research Competition with my paper named "Towards Designing for Multimodal Remembering:Findings from an Interview Study", click here to read it!

I will be presenting my commentary "Developing Theory of Mind in Human and AI Interactions: A Perspective From Memory Technologies" in one of the CHI workshops: Theory of Mind in Human-AI Interaction.

I have been also selected as one of the finalists of Student Research Competition in CHI'24, and will be competing in the final round with my project named "Towards Designing for Multimodal Remembering: Findings from an Interview Study."

Looking forward to meet with CHI people in amazing Hawai!

I have a cooking-idea in my mind to develop a memory-aiding app that encourages idiosyncrasy to encode memories by including different modalities to represent a memory.