I am currently a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Computer Science and AI at Colby College. Before that, I was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Davis Institute for AI at Colby College where I work with Prof. Amanda Stent. Previously, I received a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering at Rutgers University, where I worked with Prof. Jorge Ortiz as a member of Cyber Physical Intelligence Lab (CyPhILab) and WINLAB. During my PhD, my work focused on designing and developing machine learning-enabled tools to model human activities and events in the physical world on individual and city-scale using multi-modal sensing. 

My research sits broadly at the intersection of machine learning and human-computer interaction with a focus on human-centered, public-interest technology with artificial intelligence. I use Artificial Intelligence and other computational tools to understand conversation and interaction dynamics from multimodal data for autism intervention and social communication. I also collaborate closely with Colby College faculty members, students, and local stakeholders to find AI-driven approach to problems related to climate change and sustainability.

My goal is to design, develop and evaluate intelligent tools to facilitate fair, reliable, and transparent interaction between human and machine prediction. 

Staring from Fall 2024, I will be joining Colby Computer Science as a tenure-track Assistant Professor of CS and Artificial Intelligence.

Research Interests: Multimodal Interaction for Social Communication, Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Sustainability, Responsible AI, AI Education.