I'm a VR developer, design researcher, and immersive artist pursuing a PhD, advised by Katherine Isbister at the SET Lab at University of California, Santa Cruz.
I believe that virtual reality and spatial computing should empower us to overcome difficult existential problems such as climate change. On a project supported by a Sloan Foundation grant, I research multi-user applications for scientific sensemaking, like making VR simulations for wildfire evacuation specialists and marine scientists.
Outside of research, I serve as a community leader for the Creative Code Collective, contribute actively as a collaborator in the arts, and participate in movement communities.
I am open to chat about opportunities involved with cutting edge XR or 3D scientific visualization. Reach me at [email protected]
Current project to render stunning photogrammetry of coral reefs and empowers scientists with spatial AI tools for restoration and awareness efforts. Uses cutting-edge gaussian splat rendering approaches combined with LLM integration and embodied interface design. Prototypes run on Apple Vision Pro, and desktop devices, demo on request. Collaborative project across the Coastal Climate Resilience Center, HCI Researchers, and Wildflow.ai.
I’m a researcher on a multi-year Sloan Foundation funded project to explore multi-user VR interfaces for scientific sensemaking. I collaborate with scientists to investigate how XR can enhance data engagement in fields like wildfire mitigation and marine science. Our prototyping involves custom data visualization, interface, and networking code, alongside co-design and HCI validation techniques. Demos on request.
An XR system for wildfire resilience that uses AI to support situational awareness and community decision-making in high-risk environments. Built with multi-user spatial interfaces and real geospatial data, enabling first responders and researchers to collaboratively analyze fire behavior and evacuation planning. Presented at MXR 2026.
A collaborative WebXR viewer for the massive RYR1 protein, built for the Logitech Dev Studio 2026 competition. Uses the MX Ink stylus to let researchers tap individual amino acid residues in shared VR and inspect binding pocket metadata — residue number, chain, charge, polarity, size. Built on Three.js and Brahma.js with custom rendering techniques for bioinformatics data at scale.
AI War Cloud is an award-winning Ars Electronica piece by Sarah Ciston that illustrates the complex relations of AI technology across organizations in industry and government. For exhibition, I created custom XR views for the immersive view, room-sized 3D view of a force directed graph using a bespoke rendering technique.
What does it mean to do spin, dance, and flip inside VR? This exploration tests AI pipelines for translating real motion into 3D embodiment. Prototype one uses photogrammetry for body capture, Mixamo auto-rigging, and capoeira animation retargeting. Prototype two employs Move.ai to motion-capture salsa sequences and animate a 3D avatar.
At this CHI '25 Workshop, participants engaged in deeper discussions, experienced demos, and shared practices around HCI research and XR addressing social challenges. Applicants were from many backgrounds such as academia, industry, and creative, and wrote thoughtful papers and brought demos of in-progress, recent, or prior work.
Eye Ball is a research project led to explore how gaze tracking can be used for novel interfaces in immersive multiplayer games. We tested how gaze interactions could augment VR dodgeball-- for example, if you closed your eyes, a shield would pop up to protect you!
How do you prototype a novel hand-tracking interface across VR devices? This charming prototype captures the feeling of having a butterfly land on your hand. The widely accessible WebXR prototype serves as an example of accomadating the ambient motion of the body in an interface, and helps me demonstrate contemporary shader techniques and basics of environment design for comfort.
An interactive generative art piece where you blow into your mic to blow on a dandelion to make a wish. Every dandelion is unique! A charming, mobile-friendly, interaction design.
Booksnake lets you explore digitized archival items in the real world using the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF). This open framework, used by leading galleries, libraries, and museums, allows Booksnake to download an item's image and metadata, creating a custom virtual object for you to explore.
Bunker Hill VR is a VR recreation of 1930s Downtown LA by the Ahmanson Lab. Architectural and humanities scholars created 3D assets from historical photographs and schematics to create web, desktop, and VR apps. We collaborated with many institutions such as the Los Angeles City Archives, the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles, the Library of Congress, the Getty, and the Huntington Library.
The Ahmanson Lab collaborated with The Vatican to render the Raphael Rooms, which contain multiple High Renaissance frescoes. The 16th century art historian Vasari compared figures across the room, creating a 3D narrative that would move between walls and the ceiling. A interdisciplinary team made a novel annotation interface for this— lines that criss-cross and entangle this space.
Bodyscape is a 3D printed fashion piece containing wearable technology by Behnaz Farahi. It was exhibited internationally (like at Ars!) and locally. I contributed by writing generative art patterns of light that respond to the model's gait. For other pieces I worked on maintenance code, bluetooth communications, and safety engineering.