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FALL 2023
11/28 - Presenting our Procedural Metamaterials project at the Materials Research Society (MRS) meeting
11/2 - Invited talk at the Boston University Computer Graphics Lab
10/31 - Invited talk at the MIT Graphics Seminar
Summer 2023
8/2 - Our Procedural Metamaterials project is featured on the MIT homepage! [MIT News Article]
New publication presented at SIGGRAPH 2023: Procedural Metamaterials: A Unified Procedural Graph for Metamaterial Design
New publication presented at SIGGRAPH 2023: Helix-Free Stripes for Knit Graph Design
SPRING 2023
Named as a 2023-2024 Design Fellow for the MIT Morningside Academy for Design
Received a German Studies Excellence Award (Second Prize)
Fall 2022
Taught a guest lecture for the MIT Computational Design and Fabrication course, taught by Wojciech Matusik (Topic: Surface and Volume Representations)
Summer 2022
New paper accepted in Advanced Science: Polygrammar: Grammar for Digital Polymer Representation and Generation
Received a German Studies Excellence Award (Third Prize)
Spring 2022
4/27 - Invited talk at the MIT HCI Engineering Group
4/25 - Invited talk at the Brown Visual Computing Group
New paper accepted in Matter: 3D printing of polymer composites: Materials, processes, and applications
Fall 2021
Serving as a teaching assistant for Introduction to Numerical Simulation, taught by Luca Daniel
10/29 - Invited talk at IEEEVis Conference
10/2 - Invited talk and demo at Girls’ Day 2021, hosted by the MIT Museum of Science and the LIST Visual Arts Center
10/1 - Invited talk at the Toronto Geometry Colloquium
SUMMER 2021
New publication presented at SIGGRAPH 2021: Pareto Gamuts: Exploring Optimal Designs Across Varying Contexts
New publication presented at SIGGRAPH 2021: Knit Sketching: from Cut & Sew Patterns to Machine-Knit Garments
Fall 2020
Serving as a grader for Introduction to Numerical Simulation, taught by Luca Daniel
Founding member of the MIT EECS Graduate Application Assistance Program (GAAP)
Co-founded WiGRAPH, the ACM Community Group for Women in Computer Graphics Research. Serving as their inaugural Web Chair.
Fall 2019
Elected as a Co-President of the MIT EECS Graduate Student Association (GSA)
Serving as Web Chair for the 2020 ACM Symposium on Computational Fabrication
New publication presented at UIST 2019: Knitting Skeletons: Computer-Aided Design Tool for Shaping and Patterning of Knitted Garments
Spring 2019
New publication presented at ICML 2019: Neural Inverse Knitting: From Images to Manufacturing Instructions
Co-organizing the New England Symposium on Graphics with Prof. Justin Solomon
Fall 2018
Began my PhD studies at MIT
Joined the Computational Fabrication Group (CFG), led by Prof. Wojciech Matusik
Spring 2018
Received a Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation
Fall 2017
Started as a Fulbright Research Scholar at EPFL, under Prof. Dr. Mark Pauly
summer 2017
Serving as a Team Leader for the Student Volunteer program at SIGGRAPH 2017 in Los Angeles, CA
SPRING 2017
Our paper, "Environment Scale Fabrication: Replicating Outdoor Climbing Experiences" featured by CNNTech, EurekAlert, ScienceDaily, Climbing Business Journal, KSL, and EurasiaReview
3/30 - Invited talk at the University of Toronto DGP
Selected as a 2017-2018 Fulbright Scholar for Switzerland; I will pursue a research project under Dr. Mark Pauly at EPFL
Fall 2016
Serving as a teaching assistant for CS76: Artificial Intelligence, taught by Prof. Devin Balkcom
Serving as a grader for CS31: Algorithms, taught by Prof. Tom Cormen
9/16 - 9/18 - Participated in SeaVR Hackathon with my awesome team, Space Jelly! We worked with Unity and the HTC Vive to create a "controlled-chaos" space game, where you must complete a series of tasks to prevent your spaceship from crashing into the sun.
Summer 2016
Interning at Adobe's Creative Technologies Lab, under Danny Kaufman and Wilmot Li
7/24 - 7/28 - Served as a Student Volunteer for SIGGRAPH 2016 in Anaheim, CA
Spring 2016
Named to the Second Honors List, which recognizes students whose GPA is in the top 15% of the College
Awarded two citations for academic excellence, from Prof. Tom Cormen (CS31: Algorithms) and Prof. Emily Whiting (CS89: Computational Fabrication)
5/3 - Awarded the Adobe Research Women-in-Technology Scholarship
3/31 - Received an Honorable Mention for the Barry Goldwater Scholarship
Promoted to Lead Developer, Student Staff at the DALI Lab
Winter 2016
Selected as a 2016-2017 Tour Guide Trainer for Dartmouth Admissions
Fall 2015
11/19 - Awarded the Francis L. Town Scientific Prize for the Computer Science Department
10/14 -10/16 - Attended the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Technology in Houston, TX
10/3 - 10/4 - Participated in the second annual HackDartmouth event. My team worked with the Kinect to create a fun, intuitive program through which you could interact with protein molecules -- in particular, protein folding
9/1 - Joined the Visual Computing Lab, under the supervision of Prof. Emily Whiting. Supported by the James O. Freedman Presidential Scholarship
Named as a Unicorn (Developer, Designer, and Project Manager) and a team Mentor at the Digital Arts Leadership and Innovation (DALI) Lab
Served as a teaching assistant for CS1: Introduction to Programming, taught by Prof. Hany Farid
Summer 2015
Served as a teaching assistant for CS24: Computer Animation, taught by Prof. Patricia Hannaway
Spring 2015
Named to the Second Honors List, which recognizes students whose GPA is in the top 15% of the College
Awarded two citations for academic excellence, from Prof. James Mahoney (CS27: Projects in Digital Art) and Prof. Emily Whiting (CS77: Computer Graphics)
Named a Neukom Scholar for my work in the DALI Lab.
Served as a teaching assistant for CS1: Introduction to Programming, taught by Prof. Devin Balkcom. This course is taught in Python.
Winter 2015
Awarded a citation for academic excellence, from Prof. Lorie Loeb (CS22: 3D Digital Modeling)
Served as a teaching assistant for CS10: Problem Solving via Object Oriented Programming, taught by Travis Peters. This course is taught in Java
Selected as a 2015-2016 Tour Guide Trainer for Dartmouth Admissions
Fall 2014
Awarded two citations for academic excellence, from Prof. James Mahoney (CS29: Foundations of Digital Design) and Prof. Scot Drysdale (CS10: Problem Solving via Object Oriented Programming)
Served as a teaching assistant for CS1: Introduction to Programming, taught by Prof. Hany Farid. This course is taught in Python
Summer 2014
Worked full time in the Dartmouth Office of Undergraduate Admissions as a Reception Area Assistant and a Tour Guide
6/17 - Joined the Digital Arts Leadership and Innovation (DALI) Lab as a Developer
Spring 2014
Named to the Third Honors List, which recognizes students whose GPA is in the top 35% of the College
Selected as an Undergraduate Advisor (UGA) for Dartmouth College
Selected and trained as a Tour Guide for Dartmouth College
5/28 - Presented my WISP project, "Visualizing influenza vaccine data with hierarchical clustering," at the Karen E. Wetterhahn Science Symposium in the Life Sciences Center at Dartmouth College
Winter 2014
Began as a research intern for Prof. Christopher Bailey-Kellogg, funded by the Women in Science Program (WISP)