What Happened and Why?
A CHI 2026 workshop position paper about trace-guided micro-episodes and in-flow user explanations for product iteration in AI-supported design tools.
Read project pageWhat to notice
- Trace data needs user intent.
- Micro-episodes capture why in flow.
HotSpot
A neural SDF optimization framework with a screened Poisson objective for more stable surface reconstruction.
Visit project siteWhat to notice
- Screened Poisson objectives stabilize SDF optimization.
- Surface reconstruction improves under noisy geometry.
DesignWeaver
A prompt-design workspace that surfaces visual dimensions so novices can make more deliberate product concepts.
Read project pageWhat to notice
- Prompts become visible design dimensions.
- Novices compare and iterate deliberately.
Physion
A benchmark for testing whether vision models predict physical scene dynamics the way people do.
Visit project siteWhat to notice
- Models predict physical scene dynamics.
- Human judgments anchor plausibility.
Context-Aware Encoding for LLMs
A tree-of-thoughts context encoding experiment for improving retrieval and long-document contextual understanding.
Read project pageWhat to notice
- Tree structure organizes long context.
- Retrieval becomes easier to inspect.
GraphHSCN
A graph neural network architecture prototype for modeling long-range interactions in structured data.
Read project pageWhat to notice
- Graph structure models long-range interactions.
- Prototype explores structured-data reasoning.
A CHRONOLOGICAL DESIGN RECORD
Site experiments
I keep these site experiments on record so newer models can re-review the last best pass—and I keep only changes that survive screenshots, accessibility checks, and my own judgment.
A few places from my everyday orbit, compressed into a coastal miniature.
Read project pageWhy it began
The coast and the lab are both part of my everyday life, but sat outside the story on this site.
What changed
I brought them together in a small coastal atlas, using real map geometry beneath a deliberately compressed Blender miniature.
Intended outcome
Turn the coast gently, and follow its light from morning to evening.
A floating studio companion that looks, tilts, wanders, and occasionally helps put things back.
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I wanted the site to feel inhabited, with a little companion that notices visitors without getting in the way of reading.
What changed
P grew from a rectangular visor into a floating, lens-eyed character with an articulated Blender model and a shared vocabulary of small gestures.
Intended outcome
A head turn, a pause, and delayed antennae can say more than another face.
What I added to an existing research portfolio during OpenAI Build Week, with a clear cutoff, linked commits, and reusable project guides.
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Most of the portfolio existed before Build Week. I needed to show exactly what changed during the event.
What changed
I marked the cutoff on the timeline, then linked each change to the page and commit where it appears.
Intended outcome
Students can inspect which changes survived review and reuse the same screenshot checks on their own pages.
A second way to browse my publications: five accepted papers connected by three recurring research threads, with future work kept anonymous.
Read project pageWhy it began
A year-by-year paper list hid the questions that recur across projects.
What changed
I mapped three recurring research questions on desktop; mobile follows the same papers through time instead of shrinking the map.
Intended outcome
Readers can follow one research question across papers instead of reading the bibliography year by year.
A page for seeing when I build: daily code activity by source, read for cadence and change rather than as a score.
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The logs had totals, but they did not show when the work arrived in bursts.
What changed
A later dashboard mixed unlike numbers. I split the clocks apart, then retired the token ones and kept daily code changes by source.
Intended outcome
Readers can see when work clustered without mistaking a busy day for a good one.
How the homepage's paper collage became an inhabited coastal home while keeping its records, research papers, and discoveries.
Read project pageWhy it began
The flat desk held papers, records, and hidden cards, but visitors could not step inside the room.
What changed
I made 2D and 3D views of the same room, so music and discoveries remain when someone switches views.
Intended outcome
Visitors can skim the research in 2D, explore the room in 3D, and switch without losing their music or discoveries.
How two paper rejections became a Steam-style lab meme, a remix gallery, and a downloadable prompt-and-image kit.
Read project pageWhy it began
The same paper was rejected by CHI and UIST, then became a Steam-style image passed around the lab.
What changed
A one-off Steam-style meme grew into a small remix kit, with the serious rejection record still one link away.
Intended outcome
The page gives people images and prompts they can actually remix.
Filters and linked highlights that help readers follow one paper across my bibliography, citation total, and annual citation bars.
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A highlighter suggestion made me notice that each paper's bibliography row, citation count, and yearly bars were far apart.
What changed
Selecting DesignWeaver now highlights its bibliography row, lifetime citation chip, and yearly bars together.
Intended outcome
Readers can follow one paper from bibliography entry to citation history without hunting across the page.
The Steam-style rejection meme I turned into a small public wall of badges, receipts, and deliberately silly Failure XP.
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Two conference rejections became a lab meme worth keeping instead of hiding.
What changed
The meme became a wall where each rejection gets one dated badge and receipt, without being counted twice in the combo.
Intended outcome
Visitors can see the rejected attempts around accepted work and open the dated receipt behind each badge.
Click a project card, read the full preview in place, then close it without losing your spot in the collection.
Read project pageWhy it began
I wanted project previews to open inside the grid so visitors could keep seeing the other projects and return to the same card.
What changed
The first transition scaled the whole card and squeezed its content. The current version moves the card without scaling its contents and cancels cleanly when another card opens.
Intended outcome
Visitors can sample a project and return to the same place in the collection without a navigation detour.
How I rebuilt an academic archive so visitors can find the research question, inspect the work, and reuse the design lessons.
Read project pageWhy it began
My old portfolio listed projects and papers, but visitors could not see what I study or where to start.
What changed
I reorganized the archive around my research questions, then kept the useful experiments as reusable site rules.
Intended outcome
Visitors can see the research thread without reconstructing it.
Find the dog by the blog title, choose a fruit, and see whether it lets you through—without exposing what waits behind it.
Read project pageWhy it began
A meme dog in the blog became a small clue for readers curious enough to follow it.
What changed
The clue became a short fruit-choice game with an obvious way back and a consent step before precise location.
Intended outcome
The clue is optional, and the way back stays obvious.
Other playful builds
A small VRChat world where one person drives, one rides along, and everyone else watches the chaos.
Read project pageWhy it began
I wanted three people to share one VR joke: one steers badly, one rides along, and one watches from outside.
Intended outcome
Driver, passenger, and spectator get different parts of the same joke.
Interaction note: card opening pattern inspired by IKEA's PS 2026 collection story; adapted here for an academic project browser.