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September 2026
Selected as residential scholar at Brocher Foundation in Switzerland to work on my dissertation.
June 2026
Started working at Georgetown Tech Institute as a COMPASS fellow, focusing on policy gap in affective computing technologies.
May 2026
Awarded USC Graduate fellowship, STS center summer research fellowship, etc.
December 2025 - present
Doing my dissertation ethnography in China, Tokyo, and multiple labs in the United States.
November 2025
Presented my work on open anthropomorphic design in social robots at Society for Social Studies of Science (4S).
June 2025
Passed the PhD qualification exam and defended my prospectus.
May 2024
Joined “Future Methods” team as a Visiting Researcher at INUSE resarch lab in Department of Design, Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland.
May 2024
Participated in “AI & Digital Afterlife” design workshop at CHI 2025 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Honolulu, Hawaii.
November 2023
Led a design workshop that explores in-betweenness with a group of fellow design & media arts researchers.
June 2023
Attended Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (Quantitative Methods Summer Institute) at University of Michigan. Took Machine Learning, Causal Inference, and Social Network Analysis classes with R.
May 2023
Presented two papers at The 72nd Annual International Communication Association Conference.
Feburary 2023
Presented my work about digital inheritance at Platforming and Unplatforming: A Research Workshop, Arizona State University.
October 2022
Presented my work on sonic diaspora at 2022 NYU Neil Postman Graduate Conference: Hinterlands of Media and Technology.
September 2022
Started PhD in Communication at USC.