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highlights

• Augmented World Expo (leading XR industry conference): Main Stage Conference Chair, 2022, 2023; Neuroscience-based principles for multi-modal XR design: Invited talk, 2020

• Becoming an AR user researcher: Blog on my career transition from academia to industry (featured on ARInsider), 2021

• How to conduct UX research for emerging technology: Invited talk, Designers and Geeks Bay Area Meetup, 2019

• Designing for emerging technologies: Adobe Design Summit Mainstage Speaker, 2018

• Human-computer interfaces for AR + violin performance: Web Summit Conference, Dublin Hacks Hackathon, 2015

Select Invited Lectures, Presentations, and Panels

Industry

• UC Berkeley: Info 213, User Interface Design and Development guest lectures, 11/2019, 11/2021

• Parsons School of Design, Creative Entrepreneurial Approach of AR in Business and Technology panel, 11/2020

• Pratt Institute, UX Career Day Panel, 11/2020

• UC Berkeley: UC Berkeley Fung Fellowship, Leading UXR for Adobe Aero talk, 03/2020

• Augmented World Expo Industry Conference, Multisensory Perception in XR: Insights from Neuroscience and User Research talk, 05/2020

• Department of Illusions UX Program, Prototype Testing guest lecture, 05/2020

• UC Berkeley, UX Careers "Ask Me Anything" panel, 05/2020

• UC Berkeley Extension, Epic Events, Augmented Reality Design panel, 06/2019

• Princeton, Design Research Day Symposium, UXR Practice and Careers panel, 05/2019

• Designers and Geeks Industry Meet-up, The Voyages of Conducting Augmented Reality UX Research talk, 03/2019

• University of Southern California, Neurorehabilitation Seminar, Brain-computer Interfaces guest lecture, 03/2016

• Claremont Colleges, Human-Computer Interfaces Seminar, Brain-computer Interfaces guest lecture, 03/2016

• Web Summit Conference, 4D@4DameLane, Human-computer Interfaces talk, 11/2015

• Web Summit Conference, “Dublin Hacks” Hackathon, Human-computer Interfaces talk, 10/2015

Academia

• Durham College, Live Sound Reinforcement Seminar guest lecture, 11/2014

• University of Toronto, Music and the Brain Seminar guest lecture, 11/2013, 11/2014

• University of Toronto’s Neuroscience Journal Club guest lecture, 11/2014

• Ontario Science Center, SciFri! Youth Outreach Event guest lecture, 10/2014

• Ontario Science Centre, ScienceROCKS! guest lecture, The Science of Rock and Roll, 07/2014

• International Laboratory for Brain, Music and Sound Research Seminar guest lecture, 07/2014

• Institut de Cerveau et de la Moelle Epiniere Seminar guest lecture, 06/2014

• University of Toronto, International Symposium on Synaptic Plasticity & Brain guest lecture, 04/2014

• McMaster University, NSERC-Create: Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience Workshop guest lecture, 08/2013

• University of Toronto, International Symposium on Structural Neurobiology guest poster session, 06/2013

• McGill University, NSERC-Create: Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience Workshop poster session, 08/2012

• University of Toronto, Southern Ontario Neuroscience Association Conference poster session, 04/2012

• University of Toronto, MA Poster Day poster session, 12/2011

• University of Toronto, Collaborative Program in Neuroscience Poster Day poster session, 04/2011

• University of Toronto, Psychology Research Specialists Poster Day poster session, 04/2010

Robotics Hackathons

• Winner, Get Your Bot On!, 2014

• 1st Place, Design Category, Get Your Bot On!, 2012

What’s happening in the pics? Our team’s 2014 winning robotics concept, Snakes on a Brain, was inspired by melodic intonation therapy, which combines singing and rhythm to rehabilitate speech function following stroke. 

press

An academic paper I co-authored, on the bidirectionality between language and music processing, was featured in major news outlets.