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I’m a PhD Candidate with professors Tanzeem Choudhury, Qian Yang, and Rana Zadeh at Cornell Tech. I’m currently working with the wonderful people at People-Aware Computing Lab.

I focus on developing mindless interventions, behavioral interventions that are effective with minimal attention and effort. I take inspiration from cognitive neuroscience, build devices, design behavioral experiments, and deploy them to both in-lab and real-world.

In the past, I’ve worked with the iMed group led by Dr. Wanda Pratt, the Ubiquitous Computing group led by Dr. Shwetak Patel, the neuroscience labs and Invention Studio in Georgia Tech, Meta Reality Labs, and the MakerLab at Cornell Tech.

For publications, please use my Google Scholar page. For what I have done, please go to the cv tab and click on the PDF icon.