News & Updates
- 06/26Flew to San Francisco to pitch AstraClips at the Deep Tech Demo Day hosted by Third Coast Foundry. Also crossed paths with Fernando De la Torre — my superhero!
- 05/26Gave a guest tutorial on Quantization for Dr. Ahuja's machine learning course at Northwestern.
- 04/26Started as a Q Entrepreneurial Fellow at the Querrey InQbation Lab (Th Q), Northwestern University — building AstraClips.
- 02/26Paper on mobile human pose estimation accepted at GCMAS 2026 — my first.
- 11/25Gave a guest lecture on Imitation Learning for Dr. Kwon's machine learning course at Emory.
- 09/25Paper Enhancing Interpretable, Transparent, and Unobtrusive Detection of Acute Marijuana Intoxication in Natural Environments accepted at JMIR AI 2025.
- 08/25Paper Summary of the BeyondSmile Challenge on Detecting Depression Through Facial Behavior and Head Gestures published in the International Journal of Activity and Behavior Computing.
- 05/25Received the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award in the Stevens Systems Engineering Doctoral Program.
- 05/25Serving on the Technical Program Committee for IEEE BSN (IEEE Body Sensor Networks Conference).
- 04/25Gave a talk at Emory University: Low Burden Passive Physiological Sensing for Mental Health Monitoring.
- 02/25Started as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Emory School of Medicine, working on AI/ML in mobile systems for healthcare with Dr. Hyeokhyen Kwon.
- 02/25Organized the BeyondSmile Challenge at the 7th International Conference on Activity and Behavior Computing — Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE 🇦🇪 (Apr 21–25, 2025).
- 12/24Defended PhD in Systems Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology, advised by Dr. Sang Won Bae.
- 10/24Four papers accepted in 2024 across ACM MobileHCI, IEEE BSN, and IEEE UIC: FacePsy, MoodCam, MoodPupilar, and MotionTrace.
- 09/24Research on detecting depression through facial and pupillary cues featured in WIRED, Science Daily, and several other outlets.
- 09/24Attending IEEE BSN to present MotionTrace and MoodPupilar — my first biomedical conference. See you in Chicago 🏙️!
- 08/24Presenting FacePsy at ACM MobileHCI — see you in Melbourne 🇦🇺!
- 07/24Talk at Nokia Bell Labs: Affective Mobile Computing for Mental Health Sensing.
- 05/24Received the Academic Achievement Award in the Stevens SSE Doctoral Program.
- 05/24Flying to Kitakyushu, Japan 🇯🇵 to present PupilSense at IEEE ABC — let's grab some sake!
- 08/23Presenting at the GenAI4PC Symposium at UbiComp — see you in Cancún 🇲🇽!