about
I am an undergraduate at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, majoring in Statistics & Computer Science with a minor in History. Previously, I studied Statistics & Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, with a minor in Meteorology. I build and study systems where humans and AI meet — from real-time co-creation with generative models to sensing systems that understand their physical context.
research
- Human–AI Interaction: real-time human–GenAI co-creation, gesture-driven interfaces for controllable music generation, GUI-agent robustness
- Context-Aware Intelligent Systems: contextualized live visual instruction that bridges generative foundation models and real-world task execution
- Ubiquitous Sensing: camera-based Moiré-encoded sensing, multimodal respiratory sensing, agentic visual-privacy defenses against VLM inference
- AI4Science: statistical machine learning for aerosol–cloud interactions, dimension reduction for clinical wearable data
projects
- MagicBaton
2026 winter
Gesture-based human–AI music interaction — a dual-IMU smart conducting baton driving real-time generation. - Multimodal FSM for Adaptive Skill Guidance
2026 winter
Real-time hand-washing guidance fusing VLM vision and audio classification with a 12-state machine. - How Fragile Are GUI Agents?
2026 winter
A controlled perturbation benchmark for interface evolution, built on the VisualWebArena harness. - Bayesian MCMC for Ebola Outbreak Data
2025
Data-augmentation MCMC for partially observed epidemic data with censoring.
experience
- HAIL Lab, UMich — Research Assistant, advised by Prof. Anhong Guo
2026.05 → now
Developing a framework for contextualized live visual instruction that bridges generative foundation models and real-world task execution — mixed-reality systems that reason over live workspaces and generate timely, spatially situated visual guidance. - Ambient Intelligence Lab, UMich — Research Assistant, advised by Prof. Ke
Sun
2025.10 → now
Agentic visual-privacy framework that discovers and edits the weak compositional cues VLMs exploit; camera-based fabrication sensing that amplifies Moiré-encoded motion into physiological signals; RespiraFrame, an eyeglass-based multimodal respiratory sensing system (with Prof. Junyi Zhu). - Generative AI for Music and Audio, UMich — Research Assistant, advised by
Prof. Herman Dong
2025.09 → now
Real-time human–GenAI co-creation for controllable music generation — interaction mechanisms that preserve user agency and expressive control, and gesture-driven techniques connecting embodied input to live musical output. - Energy Distance Dimension Reduction, UMich — URPS Selected Researcher,
advised by Prof. Kerby Shedden
2025.01 → 2025.05
Engression and sufficient dimension reduction for multilevel wearable data from bone marrow transplant patients; re-implemented SDR algorithms in JAX with GPU acceleration for a ~7,000× speedup. - Waseda University, Tokyo — Summer Intern
2025.06 → 2025.08
Researched postwar Japanese literature and history — literary works in relation to historical memory, identity, and social transformation. - Lab of Atmospheric and Earth System Sciences, Nanjing University — Summer
Research Intern, advised by Prof. Minghuai Wang
2024.05 → 2024.08
Statistical machine learning for integrating real-world sensor observations with simulated atmospheric data — inference and prediction of aerosol–cloud interactions at larger spatial and temporal scales. - E2-E Lab, UIUC — Undergraduate Research Assistant
2023.08 → 2024.05
Airflow experiments with PIV flow-field reconstruction (Python, OpenCV, OpenPIV) and CFD simulations in ANSYS Fluent, analyzing particle–airflow interactions in complex 3D geometries.
awards
- UROP Summer Engineering Fellowship, University of Michigan
2026 - University Honors, University of Michigan
2024 → 2026 - Outstanding Research Paper Award, IMMC Greater China Round — top 1.875% of
800+ teams
2022 - Finalist Research Paper Award, IMMC International Round
2022
etc
- The Michigan Daily: student reporter, photographer & videographer
2025.08 → 2026.07— campus and local news through interviews, field reporting, photography, and video. Some frames end up in the gallery. - ISTORM (UIUC): member of the Illinois Student Organization of Meteorology, the student chapter of the American Meteorological Society — severe and hazardous weather forecasting. The background of this page is a small tribute.
- History: minor in the subject — how past events shape our understanding of the present, from postwar Japan outward.
- Meteorology: a lifelong fascination with weather and atmospheric science, from storm chasing to climate modeling.