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About me
I am a Master student from CSE at University of California, San Diego and located at San Diego, CA currently. Individuals and groups often struggle with programming, collaboration, learning and using software or systems effectively and equitably. Observing programmers struggle to start with new codebases drives my passion for improving the programming environment. This motivates my pursuit of a Ph.D. in computer supported collaboration work, software engineering, HCI, and social computing.
My previous research focuses on human-computer interaction, software engineering, and social computing. I designed and conducted an eye-tracking study integrated with a VSCode-based platform to evaluate autocomplete features, finding they improve information acquisition but do not necessarily boost productivity, and published the results at FSE 2024. I collaborated with others on a large-scale experiment with 172 participants to explore how LLM-driven conversational cues influence idea generation, submitted to CSCW 2025. Additionally, I found LLM chatbots made experienced programmers feel confused, accepted at PLATEAU 2025. I also work on auditing YouTube's recommendation systems to assess the impact of long and short videos on content delivery.
