projects

Research artifacts, prototypes, and studies that make research questions concrete: build the artifact, study the friction, and keep the figure readable enough that someone can inspect the claim.

What Happened and Why?

What Happened and Why?

CHI 2026 Workshop First author

A CHI 2026 workshop position paper about trace-guided micro-episodes and in-flow user explanations for product iteration in AI-supported design tools.

What to notice

  • Trace data needs user intent.
  • Micro-episodes capture why in flow.
HotSpot

HotSpot

CVPR 2025 Highlight Co-author

A neural SDF optimization framework with a screened Poisson objective for more stable surface reconstruction.

What to notice

  • Screened Poisson objectives stabilize SDF optimization.
  • Surface reconstruction improves under noisy geometry.
DesignWeaver

DesignWeaver

CHI 2025 First author

A prompt-design workspace that surfaces visual dimensions so novices can make more deliberate product concepts.

What to notice

  • Prompts become visible design dimensions.
  • Novices compare and iterate deliberately.
Physion

Physion

NeurIPS Datasets 2021 Co-author

A benchmark for testing whether vision models predict physical scene dynamics the way people do.

What to notice

  • Models predict physical scene dynamics.
  • Human judgments anchor plausibility.
HCI Spooder-Man

HCI Spooder-Man

2026 OG HCI Spooder-Man Remix guide

Double rejection, a Steam-style lab meme, and a small door into the nerdy Spooder-Verse.

What to notice

  • Academic websites can scaffold remixable play.
  • Assets and prompts help others join in.
Vibe-Coding a Research Portfolio

Vibe-Coding a Research Portfolio

2026 Designer, writer, reviewer Living case study

A reflective redesign of this website into a warmer, clearer research portfolio and a reusable design-heuristics guide for students.

What to notice

  • Portfolio becomes a research argument.
  • Heuristics become reusable design memory.
Not A Good Driver

Not A Good Driver

2024 World builder VRChat world

A playful VRChat world experiment in virtual-world creation, social audience engagement, and AI-assisted prototyping.

What to notice

  • VR worlds become social experiments.
  • AI-assisted prototypes meet public play.
Context-Aware Encoding for LLMs

Context-Aware Encoding for LLMs

2023 Builder Prototype

A tree-of-thoughts context encoding experiment for improving retrieval and long-document contextual understanding.

What to notice

  • Tree structure organizes long context.
  • Retrieval becomes easier to inspect.
GraphHSCN

GraphHSCN

2023 Undergraduate researcher Research prototype

A graph neural network architecture prototype for modeling long-range interactions in structured data.

What to notice

  • Graph structure models long-range interactions.
  • Prototype explores structured-data reasoning.

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