I am a second year PhD student at Georgia Tech in Computer Science with a focus in Human-Computer Interaction. My advisor is Dr. Elizabeth Mynatt in the Everyday Computing Lab. I am particularly interested in behavior change through personal informatics and novel visualizations tools in the area of wellness and sustainability. In addition, I have worked on projects in the area of multitouch devices and motion sensing.
I graduated from Wellesley College in June 2009 in Computer Science. My undergraduate thesis was titled "Motivating Sustainable Behaviors with an Online Social Visualization" and I was advised by Dr. Scott Anderson at Wellesley and Dr. Jennifer Mankoff at Carnegie Mellon. This past summer I interned at Apple in the iWork Software Engineering team. I have also worked on summer research projects in the Human-Computer Interaction lab at Wellesley College, in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University through the CRA Distributed Mentor Project (to learn more about my project, please visit my project website), and at Virginia Tech through a NSF funded REU in the Center for Human-Computer Interaction .
