Human Centered Design | Software Engineer

I am currently seeking a Post-Doctoral, Research Engineering, or Software Enginnering position. 

I design and develop systems and interactions to support individuals in creation tasks. I have a particular interest in expressing personal narratives. Human centered design requires focusing on people's context of use, with all the systemic biases that appear all to frequently in technological spheres. I believe technology design can serve as a field for promoting equity for people of all genders and backgrounds. 

Microsoft Research Intern and Contractor on the Epic Transcendence team

Working on the next generation of AI Interaction. (Publications coming soon...) 

Google Software Engineer, Developer on the Chrome WebXR project

WebXR is a web spec that will make it possible to distribute VR applications on the internet. For one year I was working on the backend systems that made this spec usable in Chrome, making VR development easily accessible to developers. 

Specific involvement: Developed a test suite for various WebXR features, and worked on using smartphone gyroscopes for magic window style immersion. Javascript and C++ development.

Google Software Engineering Residency Program

As part of the Engineering residency program, did two five month projects on different teams.

Oct 2016 - Mar 2017

Designed and built a visualization application to streamline inspection of user demographics data. Developed project outline, created design documents, applied review feedback, prioritized tasks. Application built in AngularJS.

Mar 2017 - Aug 2017

Added a feature to allow casting of local files to remote playback devices through Chrome. Programed in C++

Also added the number of bookmarks to be opened to the Chrome  bookmarks bar right-click menu.  

Ph.D. in Computer Science

Thesis: Sketch-based support for expressive personal visualization

M.Sc. in Computer Science

Thesis: Diagnosing Bias in the Gender Representation of HCI Research Participants : How it Happens and Where We Are (PDF)

TA'ed Courses:

• CPSC 420, Computers and Society

• CPSC 100, Computational Thinking