I build and study systems where humans and AI meet: eyeglasses and office chairs that sense breathing and posture, AR guidance generated for physical tasks in your own space, music made together with generative models, and tools that reveal what AI can infer from your photos.
Research
* equal contribution
MoiréDeform MobiCom 2026 Demo Turns the mesh of an ordinary office chair into a sensor — a camera behind the backrest reads breathing and posture from moiré patterns. A Mysterious AI Security & Privacy Project Under double-blind review What can today's AI models figure out about you from a single everyday photo — and how much of it can you take back? RespiraFrame CHI 2027 under review An eyeglass frame that monitors respiration through bone-conduction acoustics and electrical impedance tomography. Projects
Writing
About
I'm triple majoring in Computer Science, Data Science, and Statistics (minor in History) at the University of Michigan, where I'm a research assistant in the Human Centered Computing Lab. I previously studied Statistics & Computer Science at UIUC with a minor in Meteorology. Outside the lab I photograph for the Michigan Daily, practice kendo, and watch the sky for severe weather.
News
- Sep 2026
- Generative Tutorial is out on arXiv.
- 2026
- MoiréDeform is a demo at ACM MobiCom 2026 in Austin, TX.
- 2026
- Received the UROP Summer Engineering Fellowship at the University of Michigan.
- Sep 2025
- Joined the Human Centered Computing Lab at the University of Michigan.
- Jun 2025
- Spent the summer at Waseda University in Tokyo, researching postwar Japanese literature and history.
Experience
- Sep 2025 – now
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Human Centered Computing Lab, University of Michigan
Undergraduate Research Assistant
- Generative Tutorial (co-first author; with Profs. Anhong Guo and Xu Wang) — co-developed a conceptual framework and AR system for live contextualized visual instruction that grounds physical-task goals in users' workspaces and proactively generates workspace-specific goal images and demonstration videos by propagating observed and predicted visual states across task dependencies; co-led a formative evaluation of 176 generated artifacts across 15 tasks and a 24-participant comparative study, showing improved task quality, perceived workspace correspondence, and shorter step-confirmation intervals over pre-authored guidance.
- MoiréDeform (co-first author, ACM MobiCom '26 Demo; with Profs. Alanson Sample and Ke Sun) — developed a low-cost camera-based sensing approach that exploits naturally occurring woven textures as virtual moiré layers to amplify subtle surface deformation, enabling continuous body-lean interaction and respiratory waveform/rate sensing on an unmodified mesh chair without instrumenting the user or surface; reduced respiratory-rate MAE from 2.07 to 0.71 breaths/min relative to physical-marker tracking.
- RespiraFrame (with Prof. Junyi Zhu) — contributed to the experimental design and evaluation of an eyeglass-based multimodal respiratory sensing system combining bone-conduction acoustics and electrical impedance tomography (EIT); designed evaluation protocols spanning respiratory behaviors, motion and environmental interference, a three-day semi-wild study, and repeated wear over a four-week longitudinal study.
- A Mysterious AI Security & Privacy Project (co-first author; under double-blind review) — studies hidden privacy risks in visual AI — what today's models can infer from everyday photos — and builds tools that help people see and control what leaks before they share. Details withheld until the review is over.
- Sep 2025 – now
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Generative AI for Music and Audio, University of Michigan
Research Assistant, advised by Prof. Herman Dong
Investigating real-time human–GenAI co-creation for controllable music generation, focusing on interaction mechanisms that preserve user agency, expressive control, and iterative creative feedback; prototyping gesture-driven interaction techniques that connect embodied user input to real-time musical control and generative model behavior.
- Jan – May 2025
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Energy Distance Dimension Reduction, University of Michigan
Selected Researcher, Undergraduate Research Program in Statistics (URPS), advised by Prof. Kerby Shedden
Developed engression and sufficient dimension reduction methods for multilevel, dyadic, and longitudinal wearable data from bone marrow transplant patients, addressing non-i.i.d. structure not handled by existing methodology; implemented SDR algorithms in JAX with GPU acceleration, achieving approximately 7,000× speedup over the original method for U-statistic computation on large sensor data series.
- May – Aug 2024
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Lab of Atmospheric and Earth System Sciences, Nanjing University
Summer Research Intern, advised by Prof. Minghuai Wang
Studied statistical machine learning methodologies for integrating real-world sensor observations with simulated atmospheric data, enabling inference and prediction of aerosol–cloud interactions across larger spatial and temporal scales.
- Aug 2023 – May 2024
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E2-E Lab, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Conducted airflow experiments and processed PIV/camera data using Python, OpenCV, and OpenPIV for flow-field reconstruction and particle tracking; performed CFD simulations in ANSYS Fluent to analyze particle–airflow interactions in complex 3D geometries.
Honors & awards
- 2026
- UROP Summer Engineering Fellowship, University of Michigan
- 2024 – 2026
- University Honors, University of Michigan
- 2022
- Outstanding Research Paper Award, IMMC Greater China Round — top 1.875% of 800+ teams
- 2022
- Finalist Research Paper Award, IMMC International Round — top 8.75% internationally
Beyond research
- Jun – Aug 2025
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Waseda University, Tokyo
Summer Intern
Researched postwar Japanese literature and history, analyzing literary works in relation to historical memory, identity, and social transformation in postwar Japan.
- Aug 2025 – Jul 2026
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The Michigan Daily
Student Reporter, Photographer & Videographer
Produced campus and local news coverage through interviews, field reporting, photography, and video. Some frames end up in the photo gallery.
- Member
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Kendo Club at the University of Michigan
Regular practice in footwork, striking technique, partner drills, and traditional Japanese swordsmanship.
- Member
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Michigan Backpacking Club
Group hiking and backpacking trips — outdoor navigation, trip planning, and teamwork.
- Student Forecaster
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Illinois Student Organization of Meteorology (ISTORM)
Student chapter of the American Meteorological Society, focused on severe and hazardous weather forecasting.