News

Jul 2023 Collaboration Paper with Prof. Beck Todd and Prof. James Kryklywy “Characterizing Affiliative Touch in Humans and its Role in Advancing Haptic Design” Accepted in Annals of the Academy of New York Sciences.

May 2023 Organized “HapticHIVE”, a UBC-O, UBC-V Hackathon at UBC Okanagan Campus, Kelowna, Canada

Apr 2023 “Demonstrating Virtual Teamwork with Synchrobots: A Robot-Mediated Approach to Improving Connectedness” Demo at CHI 2023!

Apr 2023 “A Descriptive Analysis of a Formative Decade of Research in Affective Haptic System Design” presentation at CHI 2023!

Mar 2023 Attending CRA-IDEALS in Honululu, Hawaii!

Oct 2021 Selected as UBC’s nominee to the Vanier Canada Scholarship!

Oct 2021 Successfully completed my Research Proficiency Evaluation (RPE) with commitee members Prof. Karon MacLean, Prof. Joanna McGrenere, Prof. John Madden !

Sep 2021 Serving as ICMI 2021 SV co-chair with Pascal Fortin!

Jun 2021 Honored to receive the Graduate TA Award from UBC Computer Science!