Me (left) and my Space Stowage MHCI+D capstone thesis team: Nono Sun, Jimmy Huang, and Sana Sharma (Advisor)
About Me
I’m a product designer and researcher with a background in software engineering. Before moving more deeply into design, I worked at Microsoft and Google on developer platforms, cloud systems, and applied machine learning.
I recently completed the University of Washington’s Master of Human-Computer Interaction + Design (MHCI+D), where my work moved across AI-assisted workflows, physical interaction, human spaceflight, and research into how people coordinate with increasingly capable systems.
I’m especially interested in problems where the interface is only one part of a larger system—where behavior depends on software, physical environments, institutions, other people, and the assumptions built into the technology.
How I got here
Software engineering
Dell EMC → Medium.com → Google → Microsoft
Graduate Studies and Research
University of Washington - Master of Human-computer Interaction + Design
Current practice and next steps
Product design · HCI and user experience research · Prototyping · Technical systems
How I work
I like entering unfamiliar technical domains. I tend to start by understanding the system around the interface—people, infrastructure, constraints, and existing workarounds.
I move between abstraction and implementation. Research framing, system models, interaction design, prototyping, and code are all useful depending on the question.
I care about what happens around the interface. Coordination, material environments, institutional processes, and social context often matter as much as the screen itself.