Current Student Researchers
Talie Massachi Ph.D. Student
Talie is a Ph.D. student with a background in software development and psychology. Her research focuses on the effect of online communication on feelings of social support, and the building and maintenance of social support networks. Specifically this centers on private messaging and systems for anonymous discussion.
Tongyu Zhou Ph.D. Student
Tongyu is a Ph.D. student with a B.A. in Computer Science and Statistics from Williams College. Her research focuses on systems to support individual, collective, and collaborative creativity by encouraging users to derive inspiration from their peers or by example. These systems span both the web and augmented reality domains.
Zainab Iftikhar Ph.D. Student
Zainab is a Ph.D. student with her background in User Experience Research and Digital Mental Health. Her research focuses on incorporating the principles of persuasive design in mental health applications to enhance the quality of life.
Ji Won Chung Ph.D. Student
Ji Won is a Ph.D. student with a B.A. in Computer Science from Smith College. Her research focuses on creating human-centric visual computing systems that advance people's interactions with visual data. She is interested in how interactive systems can enhance or change an individual's understanding of the visual world.
Brandon Woodard Ph.D. Student
Brandon is a Ph.D. student with a B.S. in Computer Science and an experienced XR developer. He is extending our physical environment with augmented reality by designing interfaces and mathematical models to help users perform tasks in both physical and virtual worlds. His current projects are inferring user intent in AR and designing VR interfaces for human-robot interaction.
Joshua Yang Undergraduate Student
Ivery Chen Undergraduate Student
Amy Xiao Cognitive Science Undergraduate Student
Dominik Meier Visiting Masters Student from Hasso Plattner Institute
Zhicheng Huang Masters Student
Rebecca Chou Undergraduate Student
Audrey Chou Undergraduate Student
Eric Chen Masters Student
Kevin Hsu Undergraduate Student
Past Students
Shaun Wallace Ph.D. Student (2023)
Shaun graduated with his Ph.D. and is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at the University of Rhode Island. His research starts with Human-Computer Interaction, and combines it with Systems, Data Science, Human-Centered AI, and Social Computing. Shaun builds public research systems as products to personalize and augment human information interactions.
Jing Qian Ph.D. Student (2022)
Jing graduated with her Ph.D. and joined New York University as a Research Assistant Professor. His background is in Product/User Experience Design and Media Arts. Jing is interested in researching adaptive user interfaces and augmented applications to enhance experiences among users and machines (mobile devices, computers, and wearables).
Nediyana Daskalova Ph.D. Student (2020)
Nediyana graduated with her Ph.D. and joined Spotify as a Research Scientist. She is originally from Bulgaria with a computer science degree from Grinnell College in Iowa. When she was at Brown, her research interests were in human-computer interaction and personal informatics with a special focus on sleep-tracking and self-experiments.
Alexandra Papoutsaki Ph.D. Student (2017)
Alexandra graduated with her Ph.D. and landed her dream job as Assistant Professor at Pomona College. Her research focuses on Human-Computer Interaction and in particular on the methodology of eye tracking. For a long time, Alexandra's goal has been to democratize eye tracking by using webcams instead of relying on specialized equipment.
Anika Ahluwalia Undergraduate Student (2023), then associate product manager @ Google
Kaki Su Undergraduate Student (2023), then software engineer @ Okta
Jieyun Li Masters Student
Mia Hines Visiting Research Assistant (2022) from Grinnell College
Karen Liu Visiting Research Assistant (2022) from Amherst College
Yumeng Ma Masters Student
Neil Xu Undergraduate Student
Connie Liu Undergraduate Student
Jiahua Chen Undergraduate Student
Lauren Choi Undergraduate Student (2023), then software engineer @ Apple
Alejandro Romero Masters Student (2022), then Associate UX Designer @ Blizzard Entertainment
Long Do Undergraduate Student (2022), then software engineer @ Meta
John Roy Undergraduate Student (2022), then software engineer @ Google
Enmin Zhou Data Science Masters Student (2022), then software engineer @ Meta
Sara Syed Undergraduate Student (2022), then software engineer @ Goldman Sachs
Diana Lee Undergraduate Student (2022), then data engineer @ Meta
Ezra Marks Undergraduate Student (2022), then software engineer @ Ab Initio
Alice Marbach Undergraduate Student (2022), then software engineer @ Audible
Yusuf Karim Undergraduate Student (2022), then software engineer @ Meta
Cooper Birdsall Undergraduate Student (2022), then design technologist @ PlayStation
Jordan Idehen Undergraduate Student (2022), then software engineer @ Spotify
Cole Horvitz Undergraduate Student (2022), then software engineer @ Google
Jiaju Ma Brown-RISD Undergraduate Student (2021.5), then Ph.D. student @ Stanford
Gabby Hoefer Masters Student (2021.5), then user researcher @ IBM
Catherine Li Undergraduate Student (2021.5)
Reet Agrawal Undergraduate Student (2021.5), then interaction designer @ Code and Theory
Cat Mai Visiting Research Assistant (2021) from Clark University, then Ph.D. student @ New York University
Sarah Bawabe Undergraduate Student (2021), then software engineer @ Verb Energy
Laura Wilson Undergraduate Student (2021), then software engineer @ Google
Dinithi Silva Biomedical Masters Student (2021), then Ph.D. student @ Dartmouth
Meredith Young-Ng Masters Student (2021), then Ph.D. student @ UC Davis
Liyaan Maskati Undergraduate Student (2021), then software engineer @ Microsoft
Niharika Jhingan Undergraduate Student (2021), then technical research associate @ MIT
Matthew Bejtlich RISD Masters Student (2021), then Ph.D. studednt @ at Politecnico di Torino
Xiangyu Li Visiting Research Assistant (2018) from Southeast University in China, then Masters Student (2021)
Cintia Araujo Undergraduate Student (2021), then software engineer @ Twitter
Xander Koo Visiting Research Assistant (2020) from Pomona College, then Ph.D. student @ Georgia Tech
Chong Wang Masters Student (2020), then UX/UI software engineer @ Oracle
Shiying Li Masters Student (2020), then data engineer @ Meta
Andrew Kim Undergraduate Student (2020), then software engineer @ Meta
Ari Kintisch Undergraduate Student (2020), then software engineer @ Squarespace
Angel Cheung Undergraduate Student (2020), then software engineer @ Apple
Mounika Dandu Undergraduate Student (2020), then software engineer @ Meta
Zhengyi Peng Undergraduate Student (2020), then software engineer @ Microsoft
Claire Chen Undergraduate Student (2020), then software engineer @ Google
Kevin Ouyang Undergraduate Student (2020), then blockchain developer @ BlockApps
Nikita Ramoji Undergraduate Student (2020), then associatesproduct manager @ Google
Yibing Wang Undergraduate Student (2020), then designer @ Microsoft
Varun Mathur Undergraduate Student (2020), then Machine Translation software engineer @ Microsoft
Brendan Le Undergraduate Student (2020), then software developer @ Uncountable
Valentina Cano Undergraduate Student (2019.5), then data analyst @ Disney Streaming Services
Tzofi Klinghoffer Visiting Research Assistant (2019) from MIT Lincoln Lab, then software engineer @ Amazon / Ph.D. student @ MIT
Maria Kloiber Visiting Research Assistant (2019) from St. Olaf College
Andrew Park Visiting Research Assistant (2019) from Grinnell College
Eindra Kyi Visiting Research Assistant (2019) from Smith College, then software engineer @ Arena AI
Andrew Park Undergraduate Student (2019), then Masters student @ Brown University
Valerie Nguon Undergraduate Student (2019), then software developer @ Google
Grant Fong Undergraduate Student (2019), then software engineer @ Palantir
Ishaan Agarwal Undergraduate + Masters Student (2019), then program manager @ Microsoft
Parinda Wongbenjarat Masters Student (2019), then data scientist @ Asurion
Kelly Wang Undergraduate Student (2019), then software developer @ Meta
Linda Park Undergraduate Student (2019), then program manager @ Microsoft
Benjamin Attal Undergraduate + Masters student (2019), then Ph.D. student @ Carnegie Mellon University
Aaron Gokaslan Undergraduate + Masters Student (2019), then Ph.D. student @ Cornell University
Palak Goel Undergraduate Student (2019), then program manager @ Microsoft
Neilly Tan Cognitive Science Undergraduate Student (2018.5), then Ph.D. student @ the University of Washington
Dominique Moore Undergraduate Student (2018.5), then user experience researcher @ Apple
Haoming Lai Masters Student (2018.5), then software developer @ Microsoft
Aman Haq Masters Student (2018), then program manager @ Microsoft
Jina Yoon Undergraduate Student (2018), then program manager @ Microsoft / Ph.D. student @ the University of Washington
Philip Hinch Undergraduate Student (2018), then user interface developer @ Blend
Tiffany Chen Undergraduate Student (2018), then user experience designer @ Microsoft
Susan Liu Undergraduate Student (2018), then software developer @ Pinterest
Sachin Pendse Undergraduate + Masters Student (2018), then research fellow @ Microsoft Research India / Ph.D. student @ Georgia Tech
Aarthi Anbalagan Masters Student (2018), then software developer @ Microsoft
Linda Chang Undergraduate Student (2018), then software developer @ Nasdaq
Rico Lizbinski Undergraduate Student (2018), then Pathobiology Masters student @ Brown University
Yuze He Masters Student (2017.5), then software developer @ Meta
Han Sha Masters Student (2017)
Jessica Fu Masters Student (2017), then software developer @ Meta
Abraham Peterkin Undergraduate Student (2017), then software developer @ Nickelodeon
Arielle Chapin Undergraduate Student (2017), then software developer @ Meta
Guillermo Beltran Undergraduate Student (2017), then software developer @ Intrepid
Guo Wang Undergraduate Student (2017), then software developer @ LiveRamp
Polina Tamarina Undergraduate Student (2017), then product innovation @ Athena Health
Lucy Van Kleunen Undergraduate Student (2017), then program manager @ Microsoft / Ph.D. student @ University of Colorado-Boulder
Marianne Aubin-Le Quere Undergraduate Student (2017), then program manager @ Microsoft / Ph.D. student @ Cornell University
Klaas Nelissen Visiting Ph.D. Student (2017) from the University of Leuven
Yirui Huang Visiting Research Assistant (2017) from the University of Toronto
Adrienne Tran Undergraduate Student (2016.5), then Founder @ Neurocurious
Eda Celen Masters Student (2016), then user experience developer @ Dassault Systèmes
April Tran Undergraduate Student (2016), then user interface developer @ IBM
James Laskey Undergraduate Student (2016), then software developer @ Google
Jiahui Li Engineering Masters Student (2015), then software developer @ Microsoft
Danaë Metaxa-Kakavouli Undergraduate Student (2015), then Ph.D. student @ Stanford
Prateek Arora Undergraduate Student (2015), then software developer @ Vistaprint
Patsorn Sangkloy Masters Student (2015) advised with James Hays, then Ph.D. student @ Georgia Tech
Eddie Yan UCLA Undergraduate Student (2015), then Ph.D. student @ the University of Washington
Erica Silverstein Undergraduate Student (2014), then Masters student @ Columbia University
Hak Rim Kim Undergraduate Student (2014), then software developer @ Whisper